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  • 5 Firms Secure Navy Contract Option for Ocean Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Firms Secure Navy Contract Option for Ocean Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies a potential one-year, $28 million contract modification for worldwide ocean engineering support services. The firm-fixed-price modification exercises the second option on a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and brings the total contract value to $84 million, the Defense Department said Monday. The awardees include: GPA Technologies MAR Range Services PCCI […] More

  • SOCOM Picks Rolls-Royce for AC-130W Infrared Suppression System Installation Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOCOM Picks Rolls-Royce for AC-130W Infrared Suppression System Installation Contract

    A Rolls-Royce subsidiary has won a potential one-year, $9.3 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to install infrared suppression platforms on SOCOM’s fleet of AC-130W Stinger II aircraft. SOCOM received two bids for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate the full contract amount at the time of award, the Defense Department said Monday. Rolls-Royce North […] More

  • Gahn Lane Joins CenturyLink as ISV, Federal Channels VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gahn Lane Joins CenturyLink as ISV, Federal Channels VP

    Gahn Lane, formerly vice president of service-provider sales at Westcon Group, has joined CenturyLink as vice president of independent software vendors and federal channels, Channel Partners Online reported Monday. Edward Gately writes Lane will report to Bill Corbin, senior VP of strategic partnerships and channel operations, and lead the establishment of a federal partner program at the […] More

  • Kratos Unveils SpectralNet 1.2 Update Designed to Provide Automated Site Diversity Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Unveils SpectralNet 1.2 Update Designed to Provide Automated Site Diversity Functions

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has launched an update on its network interaction analysis tool that adds automated site diversity functionality to help satellite and network operators locate backup antennas and switch between antennas without affecting a network’s quality of service. Kratos said Wednesday SpectralNet 1.2 digitizes radio frequency signals for packetized transport over internet protocol networks to preserve frequency […] More

  • BAE Systems, Patria to Debut CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle at Land Forces 2016 Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems, Patria to Debut CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle at Land Forces 2016 Event

    BAE Systems will debut a new infantry fighting vehicle offered in partnership with Patria for the LAND 400 Phase 3 program at the Land Forces 2016 event in Australia. BAE Systems said Tuesday the CV90 family of tracked combat vehicles has supported worldwide UN and NATO operations and provides tactical and strategic mobility, air defense, anti-tank capacity and […] More

  • NanoMech to Develop Army Combat Uniforms With Coating Against Insects, Microbes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NanoMech to Develop Army Combat Uniforms With Coating Against Insects, Microbes

    The U.S. Army has selected NanoMech to develop future combat uniforms that will utilize the company’s nano-engineered chemical coating finish under a $235,000 contract in efforts to protect warfighters from vector-borne diseases such as Zika. NGuard will work to provide Army combat uniforms and other equipment and clothing items with low-toxicity vector protection and anti-attractant for infected insects, NanoMech said Monday. […] More

  • Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Water Energy Technologies have jointly developed a laundry system designed to help reduce water consumption for commercial laundry operations. The treatment system processes and recycles 90 percent of grey water from laundry operations through an integrated ozone technology and water recycling system, CTC said Thursday. “We look forward to combining the […] More

  • IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation

    A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

  • ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force

    ICL‘s advanced additives business unit has landed a $6.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 418,000 gallons of the company’s firefighting foam for firefighting vehicles and fire station foam stocks. The company said Wednesday it has started delivery of its Phos-Chek firefighting foam in August and will continue over a 10-week period. ICL added the Air […] More

  • Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients

    Inmarsat and its Global Xpress partners have demonstrated a satellite communications-as-service platform in multiple aeronautical scenarios with U.S. government end users. The company said Monday its GX network worked to provide wideband connectivity for video and data transfers through Honeywell-built JetWave satcom terminals during airborne and ground demonstrations carried out within the contiguous U.S. and outside the continental U.S. GX is designed […] More