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  • 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

  • HackerOne, Synack to Help Pentagon Create "Bug Bounty" Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HackerOne, Synack to Help Pentagon Create “Bug Bounty” Contract Vehicle

    The Defense Department has chosen HackerOne and Synack to create a contract vehicle that will work to help DoD components and services launch “bug bounty” programs. DoD said Thursday the contract vehicle will facilitate efforts to standardize a crowdsourced approach to digital security through challenges designed to identify and address vulnerabilities on department-run websites. The department seeks to launch additional challenges similar to the Hack the […] More

  • Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Establish ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Office at Northern Utah AF Base

    Lockheed Martin has selected Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park at Hill Air Force Base in Utah as the location of the company’s program management office for the U.S. Air Force‘s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replacement effort. Lockheed said Thursday it signed a lease agreement with Falcon Hill developer Woodbury Corp. for 25,000 square feet of office space to house the former’s PMO […] More

  • MBDA Shuffles Executive Leadership Positions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Shuffles Executive Leadership Positions

    MBDA has appointed Pasquale Di Bartolomeo, Dave Armstrong and Gianni Bongianni to new roles within the company in a series of executive appointments. The company said Monday Di Bartolomeo, executive group director for strategy, will take the additional role of managing director of MBDA Italia as successor to Antonio Perfetti, effective immediately. Di Bartolomeo was with Leonardo-Finmeccanica prior to joining MBDA in […] More