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  • IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: Govt-Industry Agreement to Address Tax Fraud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: Govt-Industry Agreement to Address Tax Fraud

    The Internal Revenue Service has partnered with state tax officials and the tax industry on a collaborative project to bolster information sharing and analytics as part of efforts against identity theft and refund fraud. IRS said June 11 the government-industry project aims to establish steps for validating tax filing information, standardize sharing of identity theft information and […] More

  • Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will provide support to Sandia National Laboratories on the development and testing of technologies for military applications under a $10 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Tuesday it will work on formal software and system testing, custom software development, documentation and testing for classified programs at Sandia. Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, noted that […] More

  • Versar Subsidiary to Support National Guard Civil Engineering Activity at Andrews AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar Subsidiary to Support National Guard Civil Engineering Activity at Andrews AFB

    A subsidiary of Versar will provide professional engineering and program management advisory and support services to the National Guard Bureau under a potential $2.8 million contract from the General Services Administration. The company said Tuesday its J.M. Waller Associates subsidiary will provide on-site support for civil engineering operations at the Air National Guard Readiness Center of Andrews Air Force Base. […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Navy Production Contract for JFK Carrier Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Navy Production Contract for JFK Carrier Components

    General Atomics has secured a production contract from the U.S. Navy to provide the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier. The company said Monday its electromagnetic systems group will provide program management, design, engineering and manufacturing services at its facility in Mississippi and subcontract component manufacturing to other U.S. vendors. […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics

    DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source project in an effort to offer developers software tools for crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions. DigitalGlobe said Monday Hootenanny features the interactive iD Editor interface for editing map features and the OpenStreetMap architecture for integrating geospatial big data. “Our human geography product […] More

  • Booz Allen, Trend Micro Partner to Provide Integrated Threat Intell Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Trend Micro Partner to Provide Integrated Threat Intell Services

    Booz Allen Hamilton will combine its predictive threat intelligence consulting services with Trend Micro‘s collected threat intelligence to provide an integrated cybersecurity offering. The companies said Monday the strategic partnership will work to provide security operations services, including “hunting” of advanced persistent threats, malware analysis and security operations center support. “Today’s cyber adversaries are more sophisticated and aggressive than ever,” said Tom Kellermann, chief […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Skyport's SkySecure Product Via SEWP V; Michael Shrader Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Skyport’s SkySecure Product Via SEWP V; Michael Shrader Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has joined the channel partner program of Skyport Systems to deliver the latter’s SkySecure offering to agencies as part of efforts to protect government information technology systems and applications. Michael Shrader, vice president for intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, said Monday that the partnership targets front-line defense at government agencies. Skyport said SkySecure works to secure customer […] More

  • Report: UTC in Talks with Multiple Bidders for Sikorsky - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UTC in Talks with Multiple Bidders for Sikorsky

    United Technologies Corp. has confirmed that it is currently in negotiations with multiple bidders for the acquisition of UTC subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft, Defense News reported Saturday. Andrew Clevenger writes that sources have named the bidders as Airbus, Blackstone, Lockheed Martin and Textron. The report said the news comes after UTC announced its plan to either sell or spin […] More

  • Raytheon's Dave Wajsgras Urges Increased Cyber Investment Following OPM Breach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Dave Wajsgras Urges Increased Cyber Investment Following OPM Breach

    Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services businesses, has urged the government and private sector to boost investments in cybersecurity following the recent Office of Personnel Management data breach, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes that the Raytheon executive has joined other defense industry leaders in calling for increased vigilance and stronger measures […] More

  • Raytheon's SM-6 Missile Completes Latest Navy Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s SM-6 Missile Completes Latest Navy Flight Test

    Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has completed a new U.S. Navy flight test aboard the USS Desert Ship as part of the Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air program. The company said Wednesday the SM-6 launched from the Navy vessel and engaged a simulated, “over-the-horizon” target with off-board airborne sensors. “The ships can now use data from remote sensors to support the […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Partners for Chemical Synthesis Project; Tyler McQuade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Partners for Chemical Synthesis Project; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking potential partners who will provide expertise for various fields of study in support of DARPA’s efforts to develop automated chemical synthesizer for molecule production. DARPA said Wednesday the Make-It program seeks support from experts in the fields of analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, computational chemistry, mathematics, process engineering, synthetic organic chemistry and […] More

  • CACI to Use MicroPact's Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Use MicroPact’s Entellitrak Case Mgmt Platform for OMHA Contract

    CACI International has chosen MicroPact‘s entellitrak software platform to support the former company’s task order contract with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals within the Department of Health and Human Services. MicroPact said Wednesday CACI will use entellitrak to develop an appeals case management system for OMHA as the agency’s Electronic Case Adjudication and Processing Environment. Kris Collo, president and CEO […] More