A Day & Zimmermann division has received an $18 million contract to renovate facilities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that will store a new device intended to help researchers develop fusion reactor materials. The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facilities Enhancement project will mark the first government sector work for D&Z’s maintenance and […] More

QED Secure Solutions, a cybersecurity startup in Texas, has been named a partner to the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory through the Department of Energy’s mentor-protege program. INL contractor Battelle Energy Alliance chose QED after a comprehensive assessment to join a partnership aimed at mentoring small businesses in proposal development, business planning and other […] More

Executive Mosaic, a leading media and events company in the government contracting sector, announced the recipients of its 2022 Wash100 Award and is now accepting votes to determine the top 10 leaders among the selected individuals who drove innovation in the federal landscape and demonstrated the potential to impact the government and GovCon industry. Visit […] More

Bechtel National has secured an $81.9 million contract modification to help the U.S. Army shut down a Colorado-based facility that has been a venue for destroying chemical weapon stockpiles. The company will support the closure of the Pueblo Chemical-Agent Destruction Pilot Plant, which houses safe destruction of chemical weapons stored at the Army’s depot in […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company will work with several industry partners under the second phase of a Department of Defense-sponsored program that seeks to advance the development of secure microelectronics and semiconductors for defense and national security applications using commercial innovations. Keane wrote in a blog post […] More

KBR has been selected by a Battelle-MRIGlobal partnership to assess project engineering designs and costs for a Department of Energy-funded research and development center for renewable energy technologies. Houston-based KBR said it received a contract from the Alliance for Sustainable Energy to perform evaluation work on biorefinery and biofuel projects at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Idaho National Laboratory developed a machine translation-based technology designed to detect malware that mines cryptocurrencies through compromised high-performance computing systems and is seeking to enter into a licensing agreement with a company that can bring the technology to market.

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Microsoft has teamed up with 11 companies to develop a technology platform that could help ensure the security of microelectronics design and manufacturing using the Azure cloud service.

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Executive Mosaic, a leadership media and events company in the government contracting space, has named the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award that seeks to highlight the contributions and efforts of the 100 private and public sector leaders in leading government contracting industry's growth and innovation. "We are thrilled to honor the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award," said Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. “This is our eighth consecutive year recognizing the outstanding achievements of the most significant GovCon and federal executives in 2020 as well as the vision and success they will continue to bring in 2021 and beyond."

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A BWX Technologies subsidiary has secured a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Energy-sponsored Oak Ridge National Laboratory to produce tristructural-isotropic nuclear fuel for Transformational Challenge Reactor development.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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Dedrone is considering updating a counter-unmanned aerial system technology to include detection and threat mitigation features as the company aims to establish a presence in the defense and civilian markets, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.

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