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  • EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts

    Chantilly, Virginia-based EmeSec has formed an advisory board that consists of information technology, business development and government professionals in the cybersecurity industry. The cloud computing, security and engineering services company said Wednesday its new advisory board will work to provide perspective on market and business development opportunities, macro-economic trends as well as EmeSec’s customer service and go-to-market strategies. “As cloud cybersecurity services and […] More

  • MEADS, Polish State-Owned Firm to Explore Air Defense Cooperation; Tom Oles Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEADS, Polish State-Owned Firm to Explore Air Defense Cooperation; Tom Oles Comments

    MEADS International and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, a state-owned defense firm in Poland, have agreed to explore cooperation and business opportunities related to the WisÅ‚a medium-range air defense program. The two companies inked a letter of intent to allow PGZ a participation in the expansion and sales of the Medium Extended Air Defense System in partnership […] More

  • MBDA to Help Build Qatar's Coastal Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Help Build Qatar’s Coastal Defense System

    MBDA has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to build a coastal defense system that will work to help Qatar’s navy defend territorial waters against hostile ships. The system will be designed to deploy an extended-range Marte missile and an Exocet MM40 Block 3 missile as well as feature autonomous radar mode and data-linking to a higher level within a coastal surveillance network, MBDA said […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has said it expects its partner MBDA to submit a proposal to Germany’s defense ministry by early August to begin negotiations with the country’s government on a potential $4.5 billion missile defense system, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that Rick Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, has indicated negotiations for the Medium Extended Air Defense System could start […] More

  • Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay

    Germany may not be able to wrap up by the end of 2016 a potential $4.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martin and MBDA for a missile defense system, Reuters reported Sunday. Andrea Shalal writes Ralf Brauksiepe, Germany’s state secretary, wrote in a document released Friday that it is uncertain whether the Medium Extended Air Defense System program […] More

  • MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA-Led Consortium to Demo Laser Capacity for UK Military

    The U.K. military has selected MBDA to demonstrate a capacity to field laser-directed weapons that can potentially urge the country’s navy and other services to utilize similar systems, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes MBDA leads a bid team called UK Dragonfire that includes BAE Systems, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Marshall Defense and Aerospace and Qinetiq to develop a solid state high power demonstrator weapon […] More

  • MBDA to Supply Qatar Navy Missiles Under $1.11B Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Supply Qatar Navy Missiles Under $1.11B Deal

    MBDA‘s Italian subsidiary has been awarded a potential $1.11 billion contract to build  three kinds of missile for installation on Qatar’s naval ships. The Qatar Emiri Naval Forces will receive Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles and  Aster 30 Block 1 and Vertical Launch MICA air defense missile systems from MBDA Italia, the company said Wednesday. The weapons will be built to […] More

  • MBDA to Provide Corvette Ships, Logistics Support to Qatar Naval Force; Antonio Perfetti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Provide Corvette Ships, Logistics Support to Qatar Naval Force; Antonio Perfetti Comments

    MBDA’s Italian subsidiary will supply Qatar’s naval units with four corvette ships, two patrol vessels and a landing platform dock under a contract with the country’s naval force. MBDA said Thursday the contract is part of an agreement that Italian defense minister Roberta Pinotti and Qatar’s defense chief Khalid Bin Muhammad Al-Attiyah signed in Rome Thursday. […] More

  • MBDA Agency Solicits Applications For Funding Opportunity to Operate Procurement Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Agency Solicits Applications For Funding Opportunity to Operate Procurement Center

    The Minority Business Development Agency has opened applications for a potential $2.5 million federal funding opportunity for an entity to operate an MBDA Federal Procurement Center Project. The agency said Friday the project aims to provide technical assistance and business development services to minority business enterprises to help them find and secure contracts as well as create and retain jobs. MBDA […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed-MBDA Team Hopes to Close Germany MEADS Deal By 2016's End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed-MBDA Team Hopes to Close Germany MEADS Deal By 2016’s End

    Lockheed Martin and MBDA aim to finalize an estimated $4.5 billion deal with Germany for the Medium Extended Air Defense System by the end of this year, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes Thomas Homberg, a managing director at MBDA, told Reuters the German government has expressed “strong support” for the procurement effort and he expects the deal to receive parliamentary approval before the […] More

  • Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Babcock to Include Raytheon Tech in Laser Directed-Energy Weapon Offering for U.K.

      Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. The report said the Babcock offering […] More

  • MBDA, Boeing Eyes Brimstone Missile/Apache Helicopter Integration Under UK Defense Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA, Boeing Eyes Brimstone Missile/Apache Helicopter Integration Under UK Defense Contract

    MBDA and Boeing have partnered to study the potential integration of MBDA’s Brimstone air-to-surface missile with Boeing’s AH-64E Apache helicopter under a U.K. defense ministry contract, Flightglobal reported Friday. Beth Stevenson writes MBDA U.K. Managing Director David Armstrong said the one-year contract requires a live test fire by the third quarter of 2016. The U.K. army air corps seeks […] More