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  • Rocky Brands to Supply Hot-Weather Combat Boots to U.S. Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocky Brands to Supply Hot-Weather Combat Boots to U.S. Military

    Rocky Brands will manufacture hot-weather combat boots for U.S. military personnel under an order worth between $80 million to $100 million over a five-year period. The company said Thursday it will begin to fulfill the order in the first half of 2017. The contract has one base year and four option years and sets a maximum value of $20 million for product shipments […] More

  • Cubic's Ventra Mobile App for Chicago Transit Users Reaches 1 Million Downloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic’s Ventra Mobile App for Chicago Transit Users Reaches 1 Million Downloads

    Cubic Corp.‘s Ventra mobile application has achieved more than one million downloads and was utilized for roughly $110 million in fare payments by Chicago-area transit users a year after its launch. Cubic Transportation Systems, the Chicago Transit Authority and transit partners Pace and Metra collaborated to launch the transit app designed to help users plan, organize and pay their […] More

  • DOE Lab, Exelon Enter Clear Energy Systems R&D Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab, Exelon Enter Clear Energy Systems R&D Agreement

    The Energy Department‘s Argonne National Laboratory and Exelon have signed a five-year cooperative research-and-development agreement to explore new technology that could support clean energy goals and help develop a next-generation energy grid. Exelon said Tuesday the partnership aims to combine the company’s market knowledge with Argonne’s research and expertise in energy production and delivery. The agreement also builds on Argonne and […] More

  • Marine Corps Puts Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopter Through Operational Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Puts Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopter Through Operational Test

    The U.S. Marine Corps has assessed the key functions of a Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter during a week-long initial operational test. Sikorsky’s parent company Lockheed Martin said Friday the military branch’s pilots, aircrew and maintainers performed the assessment as part of Milestone C requirements before the CH-53K heavy lift helicopter program transitions to the low-rate initial production phase. The flight test involved external lift […] More

  • Jim Haynes Receives Executive Mosaic's Top General Counsel Executives Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Haynes Receives Executive Mosaic’s Top General Counsel Executives Award

    WILLIAM “JIM” HAYNES EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & CORPORATE SECRETARY CSRA William “Jim” Haynes is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of CSRA. Jim is responsible for overseeing CSRA’s legal affairs, compliance matters and corporate governance. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Haynes has held a number of senior positions within […] More

  • Report: Northrop Lands Maintenance Support Contract Extension for UK’s Sentry Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Lands Maintenance Support Contract Extension for UK’s Sentry Aircraft

    Northrop Grumman has received a nine-year contract extension to continue to provide maintenance and modification support services for the U.K.’s fleet of airborne early warning and control system aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Andrew Chuter writes news on the deal comes after Cohort announced that its MASS subsidiary secured a potential $14.6 million contract to […] More

  • Battelle Supports Ohio Bid for USDOT Grant on Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Supports Ohio Bid for USDOT Grant on Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Research

    The Transportation Department has awarded a $6 million grant to a Battelle-backed team for a dedicated short-range communications system in central Ohio to support testing and research on connected and autonomous vehicles. Battelle said Thursday it has helped build the winning bid from the Dublin, Marysville and Union counties in Ohio to secure the grant to expand fiber optics and smart mobility technologies […] More

  • Harris, Florida Utility Company Partner to Deploy Digital Communication System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, Florida Utility Company Partner to Deploy Digital Communication System

    Florida Power & Light Company and Harris have partnered to transition the utility firm from an analog radio communication system to an integrated digital communication system. Harris said Thursday its P25 digital network platform will work to support FPL’s operations across Florida and feature Symphony command center dispatch consoles, XL-200P digital handheld radios and BeOn narrowband and broadband integration platform. Harris said […] More

  • UK, France to Continue Underwater Drone Devt Partnership Under Mine Countermeasures Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK, France to Continue Underwater Drone Devt Partnership Under Mine Countermeasures Program

    The U.K.’s defense ministry and France’s defence procurement agency have agreed to continue their partnership on a program that seeks to develop an unmanned system designed to detect and neutralize underwater improvised explosive devices. Thales will collaborate with BAE Systems, SAAB, ASV Global and ECA Group to use first-stage designs to build an autonomous system […] More

  • OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership

    TransVoyant and OGSystems have partnered to integrate a predictive analytics tool with OGSystems’ platform that works to help customers gain situational awareness as well as receive anomaly alerts and reports on operational risks. The partnership aims to add TransVoyant’s Precise Predictive Intelligence system to the BlueGlass platform OGSystems designed to generate real-time insights through remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics, OGSystems said […] More

  • ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics' New Semantic-Based Search Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics’ New Semantic-Based Search Tool

    ICF has tested Charles River Analytics‘ new semantic-based search tool designed to help U.S. Army intelligent tutoring system authors to search for existing training reference materials. Charles River said Tuesday ICF conducted a double-blind evaluation of the Content Retrieval and Extraction for Advanced Tutoring Environments in comparison with traditional keyword searching techniques. Instruction system designers who used […] More

  • Motorola Solutions to Help Navy Sustain Anti-Terrorism, Force Protection Radio Systems  - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions to Help Navy Sustain Anti-Terrorism, Force Protection Radio Systems 

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $20.5 million contract option to Motorola Solutions for life cycle sustainment work on the military branch’s enterprise land and mobile radio systems. Motorola Solutions will provide radio equipment preventive maintenance, asset and configuration management, password management and software update installation services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Ashore Program, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will also […] More