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  • Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments
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    Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments

    Northrop Grumman has received a $12 million task order from the U.S. Navy to support the Combat Direction Systems Activity at Dam Neck in upgrading the Ship Self-Defense System Mark 2 combat system. The company said Tuesday it will develop new hardware prototypes to replace old components and provide systems engineering and integration as well as lifecycle engineering services. […] More

  • Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender
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    Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender

    Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus are bidding on a tender offer worth an estimated $5.5 billion to provide Denmark’s military with as many as 30 fighter jets, Reuters reported Monday. Teis Jensen and Ole Mikkelsen report that Danish officials will deliberate on the bids ahead of the award in mid-2015. The report said Saab was also qualified to bid on the […] More

  • CCSi Receives VA Contract to Allow Rural-area Veteran Access to Benefit Systems
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    CCSi Receives VA Contract to Allow Rural-area Veteran Access to Benefit Systems

    Creative Computing Solutions Inc., today announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs through the delivery of services to various offices across the nation. This task order is just one more award that CCSi has received under the VA’s Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology (T4) contract. “Veterans living in rural […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Expect Labs’ Platform for Voice-Enabled Apps
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Expect Labs’ Platform for Voice-Enabled Apps

    In-Q-Tel has invested in and signed a technology development deal with Expect Labs to build voice-enabled applications for government using the latter’s MindMeld API developer platform, GCN reported Monday. The report said MindMeld API provides developers a platform to build voice-enabled interfaces for apps, devices or websites as well as includes indexing and contextual analysis capabilities. George Hoyem, an investments partner at In-Q-Tel, […] More

  • Dave Prater: Exelis Wins Saudi Air Traffic Tech Contract, Extends Footprint in the Region
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    Dave Prater: Exelis Wins Saudi Air Traffic Tech Contract, Extends Footprint in the Region

    Exelis has won a foreign military sales contract worth at least $9 million to provide the Saudi Arabian National Guard with ground control approach radar for military air traffic management operations. The company said Monday it will supply SANG with the GCA-2020 radar as part of the contract awarded through the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. According […] More

  • RF Controls Wins $400K Lockheed Contract to Track F-35 Assets
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    RF Controls Wins $400K Lockheed Contract to Track F-35 Assets

    RF Controls LLC announced recently it received a contract from Lockheed Martin to install an antenna system to track assets for Lockheed’s Lightning II program. The $400,000 contract, according to RF Control officials, is one of many task orders to come. RF Controls commercializes on its “smart antenna” systems that possess a spread of wireless communications […] More

  • AT&T to Provide IP Systems to US Embassies For $275M; Kay Kapoor Comments
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    AT&T to Provide IP Systems to US Embassies For $275M; Kay Kapoor Comments

    AT&T‘s government solutions segment has received a five-year, $275 million task order from the State Department for IP telephony systems at U.S. embassies and consulate offices around the world. The task order under the Foreign Post Telephone Replacement Program was awarded via State’s GSA Connections II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle, AT&T said Monday. “AT&T Government Solutions is proud to serve […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop More Antimissile Batteries for Israel’s Iron Dome
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    Raytheon to Develop More Antimissile Batteries for Israel’s Iron Dome

    Raytheon is partnering with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and other Israeli companies to provide the Mideast country’s defense ministry with antimissile weapon systems, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. Bryan Bender reports that following the development of the Iron Dome defense system, Raytheon is again in talks to build up to 15 additional batteries for the system against long-range missiles. He writes […] More

  • Bechtel, Network Rail Complete Expansion of U.K. Train Station; Ailie MacAdam Comments
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    Bechtel, Network Rail Complete Expansion of U.K. Train Station; Ailie MacAdam Comments

    Bechtel and Network Rail have completed their four-year expansion project for the Reading train station in the U.K. as part of a 2009 contract tasking Bechtel to provide project management services for the $1.5 billion Reading Station Area Redevelopment program. Bechtel said Thursday the expansion includes five platforms, elevators and escalators, a train depot, two station entrances and a passenger transfer link bridge, […] More

  • Deltek’s Derek Johnson: New York Could Set Trend With Procurement Umbrella Contract Plans
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    Deltek’s Derek Johnson: New York Could Set Trend With Procurement Umbrella Contract Plans

    The state of New York is considering establishing an umbrella contract for state and local governments’ information technology procurement, a move that could streamline the state’s procurement process and consolidate contracting opportunities, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Deltek‘s Derek Johnson, a general government services analyst at the firm, reports that New York’s Office of General Services has issued a request for information […] More

  • ATK and Jordan’s Design and Development Bureau Partner on AC-295 Gunship
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    ATK and Jordan’s Design and Development Bureau Partner on AC-295 Gunship

    ATK and the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau have partnered for base configurations of the medium AC-295 gunships for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Two lightweight gunships were recently delivered based on the Airbus CN-235 transport aircraft model to Jordan, said ATK. “We are extending the Kingdom’s investment in the AC-235 through the […] More

  • MRIGlobal Receives $63M Contract for National Toxicology Program
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    MRIGlobal Receives $63M Contract for National Toxicology Program

    MRIGlobal announced last week it has received a new $63 million, 10-year contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to provide analytical chemistry for the National Toxicology Program. MRIGlobal will provide chemical procurement, handling and analytical services in toxicology studies through the National Toxicology Program, examining chemicals found in consumer products and the characteristics […] More