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  • Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015

    Visiongain forecasts that the global cybersecurity market will reach a value of $75.4 billion by the end of 2015 due to continued cyber issues and legislation and investment activity focused on cyber capabilities. The company said Tuesday its latest report on the market covers an analysis of cybersecurity growth through 2025 across the network, data, endpoint, application, cloud security, identity management and […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Turbine for Atlantis Tidal Power Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Turbine for Atlantis Tidal Power Project

    Lockheed Martin will deliver the AR1500 turbine for Atlantis Resources‘ MeyGen tidal stream energy project in 2016 as part of a turbine construction contract and overall technology partnership agreement between the two companies. Atlantis said Monday Lockheed will build the single-rotor 1.5-megawatt turbine, which features full nacelle yawing functions and an active rotor pitching system, for delivery to the MeyGen site in […] More

  • DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Starts Air Warfare Systems Integration Project; John Shaw Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with seven companies to build tools for distributing air warfare functions across multiple unmanned and manned platforms. DARPA said Monday it aims to blend new and existing airborne sensors, weapons, navigation, electronic warfare, positioning, navigation, communication and battle management architectures through the agency’s System of Systems Integration Technology […] More

  • Research and Markets: Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Service Adoption in Asia Pacific on the Rise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Service Adoption in Asia Pacific on the Rise

    New analysis from Research and Markets expects the cybersecurity market in Asia Pacific to achieve a 15.15 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 through 2019 due to increased demand for cloud-based security services in the region. The report noted the surge in tablet and laptop use as a major market driver. “With the rising need to integrate networks with mobile […] More

  • Lockheed, SSBV-Rovsing Forge Solar Array Simulation Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, SSBV-Rovsing Forge Solar Array Simulation Partnership

    Lockheed Martin and Denmark-based space technology firm SSBV-Rovsing have reached a $438,500 partnership deal for the Danish company’s solar array simulation technology, Bidness Etc reported Friday. Larry Darrell writes Lockheed will help SSBV-Rovsing evaluate and test the SAS platform through the agreement. SSBV-Rovsing sought the assistance of the Danish Business Authority to form the collaborative […] More

  • TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Sees ‘Growing Inclination’ Toward Unmanned Ground Vehicles

    Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation of explosives and detection of enemy […] More

  • Lockheed Buys Wind Tunnel in Texas; Mike McWithey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Buys Wind Tunnel in Texas; Mike McWithey Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to upgrade a wind tunnel in Grand Prairie, Texas it has acquired from Triumph Aerostructures. The company previously leased the facility and has performed subsonic, transonic and supersonic research and development tests there, the company said Wednesday. “The high speed wind tunnel in Grand Prairie is an aerospace engineering treasure, serving as a proving ground […] More

  • Executive Profile: Jessica Pantages Nielsen, Communications & Marketing VP at Lockheed Martin - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Jessica Pantages Nielsen, Communications & Marketing VP at Lockheed Martin

    Jessica Pantages Nielsen was appointed to her current role as vice president for marketing and communications at Lockheed Martin in May 2013 following ten years of strategic communications experience. At Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions business unit, she manages the communications and marketing team’s annual strategic plan and is also part of the senior leadership team. […] More

  • Lockheed, Air Force Start Marshall Islands Space Fence Radar Construction; Steve Bruce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Air Force Start Marshall Islands Space Fence Radar Construction; Steve Bruce Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have started to construct an S-band ground-based radar system at Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Space Fence will replace the Air Force’s legacy space surveillance system to monitor objects in orbit and predict space-based collisions, Lockheed said Monday. The Air Force awarded the $914.7 million Space Fence engineering […] More

  • Lockheed Taps RADA Hemispheric Radar for Laser Weapon Tests; Zvi Alon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps RADA Hemispheric Radar for Laser Weapon Tests; Zvi Alon Comments

    Lockheed Martin’s space systems company will use a multi-mission hemispheric radar from RADA Electronic Industries to test a high energy laser weapon system prototype. The radar system contains signal processing technologies and provides multiple missions on each radar platform, RADA said Monday. Zvi Alon, RADA’s CEO, said the MHR is designed “for use with systems that counter rockets […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Textron’s Radar Signal Simulator for F-35 EW Tests; Steve Mensh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Textron’s Radar Signal Simulator for F-35 EW Tests; Steve Mensh Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected Textron Systems’ radar signal simulator as a preflight tester for Lockheed’s F-35 Lightning II electronic warfare systems. The Textron Inc. business will supply handheld Model 527TM radar simulators for EW preflight testing on all F-35 variants under a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Textron said Tuesday. Steve Mensh, Textron Systems senior vice president and […] More

  • Lockheed Eyes Growth Opportunities in Environmental Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Eyes Growth Opportunities in Environmental Projects

    Lockheed Martin continues with its efforts to utilize technologies that work toward addressing the issue of climate change through partnerships with companies such as Kampachi Farms, The Washington Post reported Friday. Christian Davenport and Amrita Jayakumar write that the efforts align with the Defense Department‘s declaration that climate change presents a threat to national security. Lockheed’s energy […] More