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  • Intel Forms Board to Develop Automotive Cyber Best Practices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Forms Board to Develop Automotive Cyber Best Practices

    Intel has created an Automotive Security Review Board to perform audits and codify best practices for cybersecurity in the automobile industry in order to mitigate cyber risks among connected, next-generation cars. The company said Monday the board consists of security industry professionals with specializations in cyber-physical systems. “With the help of the ASRB, Intel can establish security best […] More

  • EPA Taps Unissant for Admin Info System Network Services; Manish Malhotra Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EPA Taps Unissant for Admin Info System Network Services; Manish Malhotra Comments

    Data analytics company Unissant will provide software development and network services to the Environmental Protection Agency‘s Office of Administrative Services Information System under a contract with the EPA. The company said Aug. 13 it will plan, design, develop, deploy and maintain software applications, Web servers and databases for systems within the OASIS security accreditation boundary. Manish Malhotra, president and […] More

  • Hortonworks, Open Energi Partner to Deploy Hadoop for UK Energy Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hortonworks, Open Energi Partner to Deploy Hadoop for UK Energy Mgmt

    Hortonworks has set its eyes on an expanded customer base in Europe for its Open Enterprise Hadoop offering via partnership with Open Energi on the utilization of smart power grids in the U.K. Hortonworks said Sept. 3 Open Energi will deploy Hortonworks Data Platform to help analyze and extract insights from energy consumption data streamed from meters connected to the […] More

  • PeopleTec to Build Explosive Impact Testing Equipment for MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PeopleTec to Build Explosive Impact Testing Equipment for MDA

    PeopleTec will develop controlled high-explosive response testing equipment under a potential $10 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract fulfills phase three of work under a Small Business Innovation Research program and PeopleTec will work to support the repeatability of existing impact testing programs with the goal to mitigate costs. PeopleTec will […] More

  • Rich White: Capstone to Participate in $450M SOCOM Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rich White: Capstone to Participate in $450M SOCOM Contract

    Capstone CEO Rich White eyes an opportunity for the company to support the U.S. Special Operations Command as part of a team selected for the contract to provide training, education and management support services. The company said Friday the Lukos-VATC Joint Venture, of which Capstone is a member, will be able to compete for task orders under the contract. USSOCOM awarded positions on […] More

  • Xerox PARC to Build Micro-PV Cell Printer for DOE's ARPA-E - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox PARC to Build Micro-PV Cell Printer for DOE’s ARPA-E

    PARC, a Xerox company, will develop a prototype micro-photovoltaic cell printer for the Energy Department as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy‘s Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration program. Xerox said Wednesday the program aims to facilitate the high-volume, economical production of micro-PV cell arrays. The company added that PARC will utilize digital xerographic assembly to build a printer that […] More

  • Northrop to Present 4 New Microelectronics Tech at DARPA Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Present 4 New Microelectronics Tech at DARPA Forum

    Northrop Grumman will feature new microelectronics technologies at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s “Wait, What?” forum this week in support of the agency’s efforts to facilitate future technology. The company said Wednesday it will demonstrate four technologies that work toward DARPA’s goal of using innovation to bolster the national security mission. Northrop highlighted its development of terahertz […] More

  • Booz Allen-Triumfant Partnership to Offer Combined Predictive Intell, Cyber Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen-Triumfant Partnership to Offer Combined Predictive Intell, Cyber Analytics

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Triumfant have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver an endpoint security offering that leverages predictive intelligence and reverse engineering functions to identify potential risk areas. Triumfant said Wednesday Booz Allen’s Predictive Intelligence Services will supplement AtomicEye with cyber analytics to attribute threat actors and adaptive security based on the generated insight. “Simply investing in technology […] More

  • Michael Donlan: Microsoft's Cloud to Support Texas WIC Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Donlan: Microsoft’s Cloud to Support Texas WIC Operations

    Microsoft will provide the Microsoft Cloud Solution for WIC to host the management information system of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program in Texas. Michael Donlan, vice president of Microsoft’s U.S. state and local government business, wrote in a piece published Wednesday that the program’s move to cloud aims to eliminate […] More

  • General Dynamics JV to Update Coast Guard's Rescue 21 Alaska - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics JV to Update Coast Guard’s Rescue 21 Alaska

    A General Dynamics joint venture will update and evaluate Rescue 21 Alaska communications equipment and physical infrastructure under a $10 million U.S. Coast Guard contract for Phase 2 of the program, GSN reported Tuesday. The report said General Dynamics One Source will assess the existing communications facilities and develop an implementation plan for the update across 30 locations along Alaska’s coastline and the Aleutian Islands. […] More

  • Study: Aging Aircraft to Drive Military Aerospace Simulation, Training Market Activity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: Aging Aircraft to Drive Military Aerospace Simulation, Training Market Activity

    A Research and Markets report predicts the global market for military aerospace simulation and training technologies will have a compound annual growth rate of -1.46 percent through 2019. The company said Monday aging fleets military aircraft and demand to extend their service lives will drive growth in the market. According to its report, the efforts to drive down costs will […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Team 21 Consortium to Support Australian AF Pilot Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Team 21 Consortium to Support Australian AF Pilot Training System

    A Lockheed Martin-led team will provide support for the Australian defense forces’ Air 5428 Pilot Training System as the preferred tenderer on the project. Lockheed said Sunday the Team 21 consortium will work to help the Australian air force develop future pilots from flight screening to flight training. “We look forward to working with the [Australia’s] capability acquisition and sustainment […] More