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  • Sikorsky's Colombia-Based Black Hawk Support Facilities to Serve Other Latin American Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s Colombia-Based Black Hawk Support Facilities to Serve Other Latin American Clients

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has announced plans to offer depot-level maintenance and flight training services for Black Hawk customers in Latin America through facilities located in Colombia. Sikorsky intends to extend support services that Colombian armed forces and national police currently receive from the subsidiary to other clients across Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, Lockheed said Tuesday. A Melgar-based center […] More

  • NASA, Boeing Partner to Conduct Flight Safety Research With Synthetic Vision Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Boeing Partner to Conduct Flight Safety Research With Synthetic Vision Tech

    Boeing and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to study pilot awareness and response to unplanned situations as part of efforts to help improve aviation safety and flight training. The research effort will employ NASA’s synthetic vision technologies along with Boeing’s 787 simulators and , the agency said Wednesday. Kyle Ellis, NASA’s research technical lead, […] More

  • AM General Gets Humvee Orders From 9 Countries via Foreign Military Sales Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AM General Gets Humvee Orders From 9 Countries via Foreign Military Sales Program

    AM General has received orders worth more than $550 million to supply High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles to nine countries through the U.S. foreign military sales program. The Humvee delivery orders come from Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Slovenia and Ukraine, AM General said Thursday. The orders were issued through a five-year, $2.2 billion […] More

  • Sikorsky's Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will provide maintenance, repair and pilot simulator training support to Mexico’s UH-60 Black Hawk operators through Sikorsky’s facility in Colombia. Lockheed said Thursday Black Hawk operators in Mexico can go to the helicopter flight simulator center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar to utilize its five-axis flight simulator as well as the depot repair facility at Tolemaida […] More

  • Textron Lands $66M Foreign Military Sales Contract for Armored Personnel Carriers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Lands $66M Foreign Military Sales Contract for Armored Personnel Carriers

    A Textron subsidiary has secured a $66 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide armored personnel carriers to Iraq and Colombia. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems will supply each nation with 60 Commando Select APCs, of which 58 have a 40/50 turret and four have a command-and-control variant, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Contracting […] More

  • Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments

    Unisys Corp. has been awarded a one-year extension to provide information technology services to Empresas Publicas de Medellin, a public utilities company in Colombia. Unisys will produce additional devices, firewalls, servers and applications for the new contract, the company said Tuesday. In 2014, the company began its work to identify and respond to security incidents […] More

  • Virgin Mobile Arm Adopts Razorsight Analytics Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Mobile Arm Adopts Razorsight Analytics Tool

    A regional business unit of Virgin Mobile has adopted a Razorsight-built analytics platform to carry out marketing campaigns and deliver services to customers. Razorsight said Wednesday it signed a multi-year agreement with Virgin Mobile Latin America for the network operator to implement the tool for operations in Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Peter Macnee, CEO of Virgin Mobile […] More

  • Hugo Frega: Hughes, HISPASAT Team for Colombian Internet Access Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hugo Frega: Hughes, HISPASAT Team for Colombian Internet Access Project

    Hughes Network Systems will provide an HX broadband satellite system and terminals for delivering satellite Internet services to the Colombian subsidiary of satellite operator HISPASAT. The contract is part of the Vive Digital program, through which Colombia’s ministry of information technology and communication aims to increase Internet access in the country, Hughes said Tuesday. “HISPASAT is helping Colombia make a technological leap through […] More