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  • Exostar Updates Risk Management Service to Address DoD Cybersecurity Compliance Mandate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exostar Updates Risk Management Service to Address DoD Cybersecurity Compliance Mandate

    Exostar has updated its risk management service offered to defense contractors in an effort to meet a cybersecurity compliance mandate from the Defense Department. The service now includes a questionnaire that works to guide defense contractors through more than 100 information security controls in the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Special Publication 800-171, Exostar said Wednesday. Non-deviation from NIST […] More

  • Australia Eyes BAE Systems, Fincantieri, Navantia for $27B Frigates Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Eyes BAE Systems, Fincantieri, Navantia for $27B Frigates Program

    The Australian defense ministry eyes either BAE Systems, Fincantieri or Navantia as the potential manufacturer of new frigates for the Australian navy under a $27 billion program, Defense News reported Monday. Nigel Pittaway writes that Australia shortlisted BAE Systems’ Global Combat Ship, Fincantieri’s multi-mission anti-submarine warfare ship and a modified Navantia Alvaro de Bazan-class vessel for the program. The selected […] More

  • BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers

    BAE Systems has received a $55.1 million contract with the Defense Department to build a suite of mine neutralizers with explosive warheads for the U.S. Navy to launch from helicopters. The company will manufacture the Archerfish remotely-controlled underwater vehicles and fiber-optic spools for the Navy as the service branch seeks to also create communication links between the […] More

  • General Dynamics UK Facilitates Live-Fire Cannon Tests on Ajax Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics UK Facilitates Live-Fire Cannon Tests on Ajax Platform

    General Dynamics‘ U.K. land systems subsidiary and its partners completed live firing tests of a stabilized cannon and chain gun mounted on the U.K. army’s General Dynamics-built armored fighting vehicle. The team tested the CTA International-developed 40-millimeter cannon system integrated on the Ajax vehicle platform to record the recoil and blast stresses and other aspects of the firing, General Dynamics said Wednesday. The […] More

  • BAE Profiles 6 Types of Cyber Criminals, Unveils New Office in Singapore - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Profiles 6 Types of Cyber Criminals, Unveils New Office in Singapore

    BAE Systems has released a study that profiles six types of cyber criminals in an effort to help businesses understand the motivations of network threat actors and develop defense strategies against them. BAE released the Unusual Suspects research, which is based on an analysis of cyber attacks launched against companies worldwide, to coincide with the […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas

    Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new facility at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas to provide engine repair support for the T-45 trainer jet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday the service delivery center will also provide service operations support for the Rolls-Royce-built F405 Adour engines of the aircraft. A BAE Systems–Boeing partnership […] More

  • Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments

    Airbus has selected Flatirons Solutions to provide software for work to produce and maintain the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for Denmark. Flatirons’ CORENA software will be incorporated into the Danish Fighter Replacement Program to fulfill the requirements for full content lifecycle management, Flatiron said Thursday. Geoffrey Godet, Flatirons CEO, said the company will extend its partnership with Airbus […] More

  • BAE Study: New Qbot Malware Strain Threatens Public Organizations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Study: New Qbot Malware Strain Threatens Public Organizations

    A team of cyber professionals at BAE Systems has detected new malicious software that has targeted 54,000 computers belonging to public organizations such as police departments, hospitals and universities. BAE said Tuesday the Qbot malware works to infect host computers, automate the software updates and hide itself from antivirus software tools. The company’s cyber analysts found several […] More

  • BAE's Dave Gormley Outlines 6 Levels for Sophisticated Cyber Threat Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s Dave Gormley Outlines 6 Levels for Sophisticated Cyber Threat Mgmt

    Dave Gormley, a cybersecurity product specialist at BAE Systems, has recommended a six-level framework from research company Forrester he believes can help organizations to avoid advanced targeted attacks. He outlined three of six steps that comprise Forrester’s Targeted Attack Hierarchy of Needs in a blog entry posted Monday. Gormley said the first strategy in the framework calls for organizations […] More

  • BAE Awards $117M Subcontract to Balfour Beatty for F-35 Facilities Construction in UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Awards $117M Subcontract to Balfour Beatty for F-35 Facilities Construction in UK

    Balfour Beatty has landed an estimated $117 million subcontract from BAE Systems for construction services at a U.K. air force base that will house Lockheed Martin-built fighter jets beginning 2018. Balfour Beatty will construct an integrated training center, logistics operations center and a maintenance and finishing facility at the Marham air base to support the arrival […] More

  • BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services

    BAE Systems has awarded a subcontract to Cumming, Georgia-based small business Pyrgos Communications for technical and installation personnel support of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence functions to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. Pyrgos said Thursday it will help BAE in work to develop, design, implement and test C4I systems for the division. Pyrgos’ personnel will provide assistance in research and development, […] More

  • Lockheed Awards $166.3M to BAE for F-35 Engineering & Training Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards $166.3M to BAE for F-35 Engineering & Training Facilities

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a $166.3 million subcontract to BAE Systems to construct three engineering and training facilities at a U.K. air force base in the country as Britain prepares to take in its first F-35 fighter jets aircraft in 2018. BAE said Thursday the contract covers maintenance and finishing work, logistics operations and integrated training facilities to support the […] More