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  • ReportsnReports.com: Public Safety Concerns to Drive Homeland Security Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports.com: Public Safety Concerns to Drive Homeland Security Market Growth

    The homeland security market will see a compound annual growth rate of 9.86 percent through 2019 due to increasing demand for public safety and security technologies amid terrorist attacks, ReportsnReports.com says in a new report. The firm said Sunday the need for quick response from law enforcement to threat incidents will drive the demand for border, aviation, maritime, counterintelligence, homeland defense and […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Considers New Aircraft Production Area at Palmdale Site; Tom Vice Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Considers New Aircraft Production Area at Palmdale Site; Tom Vice Comments

    Northrop Grumman is looking to convert an unused space at the Palmdale, California-based F-35 facility into a production area for a new aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes the government-owned, contractor-operated Air Force Plant 42 site has a one-million-square-foot vacant area. Tom Vice, Northrop’s president of aerospace systems, told reporters “this site has very […] More

  • Tom Vice: Northrop Prepares to Compete for Navy, Air Force NextGen Fighter Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Vice: Northrop Prepares to Compete for Navy, Air Force NextGen Fighter Programs

    Northrop Grumman has formed two internal teams to design and build a “sixth-generation” fighter in anticipation of future aircraft requirements at the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes Tom Vice, vice president at Northrop’s aerospace business, said the company also named a program manager to lead new fighter […] More

  • Wes Bush: Northrop Grumman Maintains Focus on Targeted Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wes Bush: Northrop Grumman Maintains Focus on Targeted Areas

    Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company remains focused on expanding its services in targeted growth areas, Reuters reported Wednesday. “I’m excited about growing our company with what we have. We get the biggest return on the things we do inside the company,” Bush told the news agency. He noted the Defense Department’s reluctance to support […] More

  • Brett Lambert Joins Northrop as Corporate Strategy VP; Mark Caylor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brett Lambert Joins Northrop as Corporate Strategy VP; Mark Caylor Comments

    Brett Lambert, formerly an executive-in-residence at Renaissance Strategic Advisors, has joined Northrop Grumman as vice president of corporate strategy. He will report to Mark Caylor, corporate vice president, president of enterprise services and chief strategy officer, Northrop said Tuesday. In his new role, Lambert will oversee the company’s development and implementation of corporate and business focus […] More

  • Northrop to Develop Supply Chain Authentication System for DARPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop Supply Chain Authentication System for DARPA

    Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems business unit has been awarded a contract worth at least $12 million with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a supply chain hardware authentication system. The system will work to verify the trustworthiness of an electronic component and identify counterfeit parts in the supply chain, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Air Traffic Control Equipment Market to Hit $5B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Air Traffic Control Equipment Market to Hit $5B by 2020

    A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the market for air traffic control equipment will be worth $5.52 billion by 2020 through a compound annual growth rate of 4.82 percent as air traffic continues to rise. The market research firm said Thursday the growth in demand for air traffic control equipment is due to airport expansions resulting from increased aircraft […] More

  • Research and Markets: Demand for Battlefield Mgmt Systems to Continue Rise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Demand for Battlefield Mgmt Systems to Continue Rise

    A new Research and Markets report states that the global market for battlefield management systems will see steady adoption through 2018 to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 4 percent. The firm said Wednesday military and defense organizations are using battlefield management systems to limit the risk of friendly fire and control combat situations. According to the report, these […] More

  • Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market

    New analysis from Research and Markets has forecast a 4.52 percent year-over-year growth for the $102 billion C4ISR market from 2014 to 2020. The market report singled out the electro-optics subsector fueling demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment in the defense, aerospace and homeland security segments, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Electro-optics is used […] More

  • Executive Profile: Rene LaVigne, Iron Bow President and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Rene LaVigne, Iron Bow President and CEO

    Rene LaVigne is the president and CEO of Iron Bow Technologies, a Chantilly, Va.-based information technology contractor that works with customers in the public and private sectors. Before joining Iron Bow, formerly known as Apptis Technology Solutions, he served as president of the computing system division at Northrop Grumman and held leadership positions at Federal Data Corp. until that company’s acquisition […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dr. Pamela Drew, President of Exelis Information Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dr. Pamela Drew, President of Exelis Information Systems

    Dr. Pamela Drew serves as executive vice president and president of the information systems business area at Exelis. Dr. Drew leads the organization in providing system architecture, development, integration, testing, evaluation, maintenance and sustainment services to government customers. Before Exelis, she was senior VP for strategic capabilities and technology at TASC and also led that […] More

  • ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope's 1st Sunshield Layer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subsidiary Completes Shape Test on Webb Telescope’s 1st Sunshield Layer

    A subsidiary of ManTech International has finished the shape testing of the first sunshield membrane layer of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope as a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman. NeXolve assembled and tested the layer’s three-dimensional shape with laser beams to confirm if it meets shape specifications, ManTech said Thursday. “We are now proceeding with the remaining layers and will test each […] More