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  • US Manufacturers Eye Middle East for Drone Export Sales - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Manufacturers Eye Middle East for Drone Export Sales

    Industry executives said they expect drone sales orders from Middle East nations to increase after the State Department loosened export rules for unmanned aerial vehicles, Reuters reported Tuesday. “With this new policy, we see a lot more activity, we are talking to a lot more countries in the Middle East,” Frank Pace, president of General […] More

  • Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services

    A joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard has received a performance score of 96 from the Energy Department on the venture’s contract to provide protective force services at DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Triple Canopy said Jan. 21 that DOE commended National Strategic Protective Services for meeting or exceeding expectations on contract performance and its “continued ability to adapt […] More

  • Satya Nadella: Accenture-Microsoft Team Aims to Help Foster 'Mobile, Cloud-First' World - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Satya Nadella: Accenture-Microsoft Team Aims to Help Foster ‘Mobile, Cloud-First’ World

    Accenture and Microsoft have teamed to co-fund and co-engineer hybrid cloud functions with the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure platform with support from their joint venture Avanade. “With new demands being placed on IT departments every day, enterprises need to smartly connect their infrastructure, software applications, data and operations capabilities in order to become agile, intelligent, […] More

  • Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Tucci: EMC to Buy Controlling Interest in VCE

    VCE, a joint venture of EMC and Cisco, will become an EMC company by the end of the quarter and Cisco will continue to be a partner and investor in the business alongside VMware. EMC said Wednesday that it will acquire a controlling interest in VCE as part of a reorganization agreed upon between all arties to build on the business’ hybrid […] More

  • Parsons-Acumen JV Lands Engineering Contract With for SF Bay Area Transit; Todd Wager Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-Acumen JV Lands Engineering Contract With for SF Bay Area Transit; Todd Wager Comments

    Parsons‘ joint venture with Acumen will provide the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District with general engineering services under a new five-year contract. APJV will work with 11 subconsultants and small businesses to provide civil, architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering support for the BART project, Parsons said Wednesday. Todd Wager, Parsons group president, said the company […] More

  • Jacobs JV to Provide Design Services for $2B Florida I-4 Overhaul Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs JV to Provide Design Services for $2B Florida I-4 Overhaul Project

    A Jacobs Engineering Group–HDR joint venture is part of a design-build consortium that won a $2.32 billion contract for the 21-mile Interstate 4 modernization project in Florida. The Florida Transportation Department picked I-4 Mobility Partners to construct 15 interchanges, more than 140 bridges and four toll lanes between Orange and Seminole counties, Jacobs said Friday. […] More

  • Ambassador Max Baucus Visits Pratt & Whitney's Shanghai Engine Center; Roger Retana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ambassador Max Baucus Visits Pratt & Whitney’s Shanghai Engine Center; Roger Retana Comments

    Pratt & Whitney‘s Shanghai Engine Center hosted a visit from U.S. Ambassador to China Max Sieben Baucus, who inspected the facility and met with executives from United Technologies Corp.‘s subsidiaries and joint venture partner. The UTC subsidiary said Wednesday the center houses its Shanghai Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engine Maintenance Company venture with China Eastern Airlines. “It was a […] More

  • Leidos JV to Support Navy Training Range Sustainability Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos JV to Support Navy Training Range Sustainability Program

    A joint venture of Leidos and Cardno TEC has won a potential five-year, $50 million contract to support a U.S. Navy program that works to maintain sustainable practices at naval training ranges and operating areas. Cardno TEC-Leidos LLC will provide environmental, architectural and engineering services for the Navy’s Tactical Training Theater Assessment and Planning initiative, […] More

  • Thales-Siemens JV to Install Signalling, Security Tech on Spanish Rail Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales-Siemens JV to Install Signalling, Security Tech on Spanish Rail Line

    A Thales–Siemens joint venture will implement signalling, telecommunications and security technologies for a rail line in southern Spain under a $284.9 million contract with ADIF Alta Velocidad. The companies said Thursday the contract covers Thales’ project management services and electronic interlocking product and Siemens Rail Automation’s European Rail Traffic Management System level 2 with automatic braking and signal announcement systems. ADIF Alta […] More

  • Airbus Group, Safran Form Space Launcher JV; Tom Enders Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Group, Safran Form Space Launcher JV; Tom Enders Comments

    Airbus Group and Safran have inked a memorandum of understanding to develop new space launchers for commercial and government customers through a 50-50 joint venture. Safran will combine its propulsion technologies with Airbus’ launcher systems under the joint venture, Airbus said Monday. The agreement builds on an industrial initiative led by the European Space Agency […] More