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  • General Dynamics to Support Air Force Emergency Action Message C2 Terminal Under $53M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Support Air Force Emergency Action Message C2 Terminal Under $53M IDIQ

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has received a five-year, $53 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Air Force manage a communications terminal used to deliver emergency action messages to nuclear forces. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers on-site management, software updates, production, contractor logistics support, information awareness, travel, over and above services, field support and engineering services […] More

  • Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System

    Northrop Grumman has turned over a mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial production contract awarded in October 2014. The company said Tuesday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five legacy radars being used by Marines and the system’s architecture works to interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATOR is designed to detect, track and engage a range […] More

  • Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture

    A business unit of BAE Systems has won a potential $12.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a knowledge-based space testbed architecture. The Defense Department said Monday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration business will create a testbed for the military branch to evaluate space enterprise command-and-control tools and technologies. DoD noted that the Air Force Research […] More

  • Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility

    Red River Computer has received a potential $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and engineering support services for a new command-and-control center of the U.S. Air Force. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received two proposals for the fixed-price contract that has a base period of 15 months […] More

  • Lockheed to Explore Multi-Domain C2 at Wargame Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Explore Multi-Domain C2 at Wargame Exercise

    Lockheed Martin will hold a three-day wargame exercise at its Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia, to demonstrate how the operational integration of air, cyber and space domains can help boost command and control operations. The company said Tuesday it will examine potential gaps and synergies in air, cyber and space planning processes during the exercise as part of efforts to create strategies to […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils Analytics Platform for Space Asset Protection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils Analytics Platform for Space Asset Protection

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled an analytics platform the company designed to help public and private sector customers protect their space assets. The intelligent Space offering encompasses sensor data processing, space domain awareness, battle management and command-and-control support for defense, civil, commercial and international clients, Lockheed said Tuesday. The company designed iSpace to task, process and correlate data from a global network of government, commercial […] More

  • Army Invites Small Biz Participation in Network Integration Evaluation Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Invites Small Biz Participation in Network Integration Evaluation Exercise

    The U.S. Army has begun its search for small businesses that could support the service branch’s upcoming Network Integration Evaluation event. The Army’s Mission and Installation Contracting Command asked interested companies to provide threat emulation forces for NIE 17.2, according to a FedBizOpps notice published Friday. TEFOR is intended to apply rigor on operational environment simulations during test and evaluation exercises […] More

  • Report: BAE, Lockheed Compete for Australia's Jindalee Radar Network Upgrade Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: BAE, Lockheed Compete for Australia’s Jindalee Radar Network Upgrade Project

    BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have bid on a project to modernize the Australian air force’s over-the-horizon radar system, Aviation Week reported Thursday. Bradley Perrett writes the modernization effort for the Jindalee Operational Radar Network is scheduled to begin next year and will run through 2020. The report said “Project Joint 2025 Phase 6” will cover upgrade work on JORN’s signal generator, receivers, signal […] More

  • Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments

    The U.S. Army Mission Command has awarded Systematic a multimillion-dollar contract for the deployment of the company’s commercial off-the-shelf command, control, computing and communications software. Systematic said Feb. 3 its SitaWare platform will work to bolster situational awareness and cooperation of warfighters across the military branches. Rafael Torres, Systematic president, said SitaWare is designed to address the U.S. […] More

  • Palo Alto Networks Releases New Firewall Devices, Updated Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Palo Alto Networks Releases New Firewall Devices, Updated Security Platform

    Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new purpose-built hardware and virtual firewall appliances that work to offer threat prevention and SSL decryption functions in efforts to prevent cyber attacks across cloud, endpoint and network environments. The company said Tuesday the new appliances support the release of the updated Next-Generation Security Platform with more than 70 new security features. Palo Alto […] More

  • Nutanix to Provide Computing Tech for Navy's Deployable Joint C2 System Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nutanix to Provide Computing Tech for Navy’s Deployable Joint C2 System Modernization Effort

    Crown Point Systems has subcontracted Nutanix to provide enclave commercial off-the-shelf technology for a U.S. Navy deployable program of record that fields an integrated command-and-control system. Nutanix said Tuesday it will supply a hyperconverged computing platform to the Deployable Joint Command and Control program as part of a potential five-year, $28.8 million contract the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command awarded to […] More

  • CAE Updates Austrian Army's Command and Staff Training Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Updates Austrian Army’s Command and Staff Training Platform

    CAE has installed an updated version of the company’s command and staff training system at a military educational facility located in Weitra, Austria. The company said Tuesday it implemented the GESI constructive simulation system at Austria’s national defense academy and delivered a third-party communications system to Austria’s Theresian military academy for integration with GESI. Wolfgang Kralicek, head of section training equipment and simulation […] More