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  • Cubic to Produce Baseband Equipment for GATR Technologies; Michael Barthlow Comments
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    Cubic to Produce Baseband Equipment for GATR Technologies; Michael Barthlow Comments

    GATR Technologies has awarded Cubic’s subsidiary DTECH LABS a $2.7 million contract to produce baseband equipment for use in a U.S. Marine Corps program. DTECH’s mobile, modular, micro-single enclave baseband tool will pair with GATR Technologies’ inflatable satellite antenna in support of Marine Corps’ High Bandwidth Signals Intelligence Palletized Terminal program, Cubic said Tuesday. The […] More

  • CloudPassage to Offer Agencies Halo Security Platform Through AWS GovCloud
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    CloudPassage to Offer Agencies Halo Security Platform Through AWS GovCloud

    CloudPassage‘s Halo platform will be available to federal government customers through Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud for the U.S. region as the security company works to achieve FedRAMP-ready status. CloudPassage said Tuesday it is seeking to obtain a certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide agile security functions to the Defense Department and other government agencies. “As government […] More

  • NASA Opens Tech Patent Opportunities for Startups; David Miller Comments
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    NASA Opens Tech Patent Opportunities for Startups; David Miller Comments

    NASA has launched a new initiative to help startup businesses apply for a free license of patented technologies. NASA said Wednesday startup applicants will have the opportunity to obtain licenses of more than 1,200 NASA technologies such as coatings, sensors, aeronautics technologies and instrumentation, among others. The Startup NASA initiative aims to help startups raise capital […] More

  • Alcoa to Supply Titanium for Lockheed’s F-35; Klaus Kleinfeld Comments
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    Alcoa to Supply Titanium for Lockheed’s F-35; Klaus Kleinfeld Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a potential nine-year, $1.1 billion subcontract to Alcoa for titanium plate and billet components on the F-35 fighter jet from 2016 to 2024. Lockheed will use the titanium build the airframe structures for F-35 variants such as the conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, short takeoff/vertical landing aircraft and the carrier variant, Alcoa said […] More

  • Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov’t Under FedRAMP ATO
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    Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov’t Under FedRAMP ATO

    Salesforce.com has received an authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer Salesforce Analytics Cloud with its Salesforce Government Cloud portfolio to public sector agencies. Dave Rey, executive vice president of sales for Salesforce’s North American public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday that Salesforce Analytics Cloud works to provide data intelligence to agencies. He added that […] More

  • DFAS Kicks Off Human Capital Consulting Services Search
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    DFAS Kicks Off Human Capital Consulting Services Search

    The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has issued a notice that calls on potential industry sources with the interest and capability to provide human capital consulting services. In a notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps, DFAS said it aims to determine the availability of qualified service providers in support of market research and program planning efforts. Requirements […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Spacecraft Electronics Factory Revamp
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    Lockheed Completes Spacecraft Electronics Factory Revamp

    Lockheed Martin has completed renovation works on an electronics production facility in Littleton, Colorado. Lockheed said Tuesday the open of the newly-renovated manufacturing facility at the campus of Lockheed’s space systems company coincides with the celebration of the National Manufacturing Day on Friday. The company will use the 28,000-square-foot factory to design, fabricate and perform environmental […] More

  • DynCorp Lands $77M US Army Logistics Contract; Randy Bockenstedt Comments
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    DynCorp Lands $77M US Army Logistics Contract; Randy Bockenstedt Comments

    DynCorp International has been awarded two contracts worth up to $77 million combined to assist the U.S. Army geographic combatant command in North America and the Pacific in operational planningfunctions. The task orders fall under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program IV vehicle and both contain a one-year base period and two one-year options, the company said Monday. “DI’s LOGCAP team is proud to […] More

  • John McNally: Capstone Awarded Navy CNIC Facilities, Environment Support Task Order
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    John McNally: Capstone Awarded Navy CNIC Facilities, Environment Support Task Order

    Capstone has received a task order to provide strategic planning and environment support services for the Commander, Navy Installations Command’s N4 facilities and environment division. The award also covers knowledge management, public relations, energy programs, strategic communications and process improvement assistance to the CNIC N4 division, Capstone said Monday. John McNally, senior vice president of […] More

  • VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments
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    VArmour Extends Security Tool to AWS Cloud Platforms; Angie Messer Comments

    Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. VArmour will offer network control, policy enforcement and visibility to clients with workloads that run on AWS cloud environments through its Distributed Security System, vArmour said Monday. […] More

  • Harris, GovTact Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program
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    Harris, GovTact Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program

    Harris Corp. and Government Tactical Solutions have formed a new partnership through the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Mentor-Protege Program. Harris will offer developmental support to GovTact in an effort to help the latter create new business, be more competitive and gain business independence under the SBA program, Harris said Sept. 28. GovTact has collaborated with Harris […] More

  • Latvia Purchases 3 Lockheed Air Surveillance Radars; Raimonds Bergmanis, Greg Larioni Comment
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    Latvia Purchases 3 Lockheed Air Surveillance Radars; Raimonds Bergmanis, Greg Larioni Comment

    Lockheed Martin has secured a contract to supply three TPS-77 multi-role radars to Latvia for use in aircraft surveillance operations. The company said Monday the TPS-77 MRR consists of a single, multirole scan platform that works to allow users to choose specific flight surveillance functions for the radar and a Gallium Nitride system designed to reduce […] More