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  • DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Phase 1 contracts to 13 organizations from industry and academia to help develop automated translation technology for DARPA’s Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents program. DARPA said Thursday LORELEI aims to utilize public information sources in local languages to support quick-response operations such as disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and infectious disease response […] More

  • ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload and 13 CubeSats for the Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment aboard an Atlas V rocket as part of the NROL-55 mission. The Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday the mission is in support of national defense and is the company’s 10th launch since the beginning of the year. Jim […] More

  • PPD Lands 2 Contracts for R&D, Vaccine Services to Army & BARDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PPD Lands 2 Contracts for R&D, Vaccine Services to Army & BARDA

    Pharmaceutical Product Development will provide research and development and vaccine services to the U.S. Army and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority as part of two new contracts. The company said Thursday it will support Army R&D activities that work toward force readiness, improved health outcomes and the delivery of high-quality medical and preventative care to deployed service members […] More

  • Johns Hopkins University APL Unveils Location-Specific Emergency Alert Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins University APL Unveils Location-Specific Emergency Alert Tech

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has conceptualized a new smartphone-based emergency alert technology that works to provide location-specific notifications to users. The lab said Wednesday the Arbitrary-Size Location-Aware Targeting concept utilizes geolocation technologies to boost the alerts’ accuracy of delivery. “ASLAT uses the location awareness of wireless devices — their internal knowledge of where they are […] More

  • Research and Markets: Systems Integration to Drive Health IT Market Activity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Systems Integration to Drive Health IT Market Activity

    Research and Markets has reported that increased activity toward the integration of remote monitoring and diagnosis systems will drive activity in the global healthcare information technology market through 2019. The company said Tuesday its latest report predicts a compound annual growth rate of 6.44 percent for the market over a five-year period ending 2019 due to the increased IT integration […] More

  • ReportBuyer: Military Satellite Market to Reach Nearly $10B Value in 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportBuyer: Military Satellite Market to Reach Nearly $10B Value in 2025

    A Strategic Defense Intelligence report released by ReportBuyer predicts that the global military satellite market will climb in value from $5.7 billion this year to $9.7 billion in 2025. ReportBuyer said Wednesday the 5.47-percent compound annual growth rate over the 10-year forecast period is due to factors such as spending and modernization activities. According to the report, North America […] More

  • Research and Markets: Cloud Storage Market Worth $65B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Cloud Storage Market Worth $65B by 2020

    A Research and Markets report predicts that the market for cloud storage products will reach a value of $65.41 billion in 2020 from $18.87 billion in 2015, at a compound annual growth rate of 28.22 percent. The company said Sept. 3 the growing adoption of cloud storage gateways and demand for big data storage will drive market growth […] More

  • CloudPassage to Offer Agencies Halo Security Platform Through AWS GovCloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • Dave Rey: Salesforce to Offer Analytics Cloud for Gov't Under FedRAMP ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • DOE, GSA Issue RFI for Green Building Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, GSA Issue RFI for Green Building Tech

    The Energy Department and General Services Administration has asked industry, academia and nonprofit organizations to provide data on green building technologies to support DOE’s High Impact Technology Catalyst program and GSA’s Green Proving Ground program. GSA said Monday the agencies’ joint request for information is focused on the areas of energy management, renewable energy, water conservation and reuse, and on equipment such as […] More

  • Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Canopy to Provide AWS Cloud-Based HPC, Analytics to SEC

    Blue Canopy Group has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology. The HPCI will feature a big data analytics function in support of SEC’s efforts to detect high-frequency trading and stop fraud, Blue Canopy […] More