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  • Army Awards Collins Aerospace Avionics Contract for Army Black Hawk Helicopter Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Awards Collins Aerospace Avionics Contract for Army Black Hawk Helicopter Variant

    Collins Aerospace, an RTX subsidiary, has secured an $80 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop a modular open systems architecture for the avionics system of the U.S. Army’s H-60M aircraft.  Funding will be allocated and work sites assigned with each task order, according to a Department of Defense announcement released Thursday. Contract work is expected to […] More

  • Alice Fakir on Securing Agencies' Hybrid Cloud Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Government Technology

    Alice Fakir on Securing Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Environments

    Alice Fakir, IBM’s senior partner for federal cybersecurity services, has recommended that federal departments with agencies operating in hybrid on-premises and cloud environments should adopt artificial intelligence-driven identity management for better security. “Traditional access controls from on-prem environments don’t translate easily to the cloud,” she told FedTech Magazine in an interview published Wednesday. With an […] More

  • SandboxAQ Partners With UN Computing Center as AI Hub Founding Member - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ Partners With UN Computing Center as AI Hub Founding Member

    Artificial intelligence and quantum technology company SandboxAQ has announced a partnership with the United Nations International Computing Centre as a founding member of the UN body’s new AI Hub.  “We are proud to partner with the United Nations International Computing Centre in this groundbreaking initiative to introduce innovative AI and Cybersecurity solutions for global public […] More

  • Megan Fillinich Joins General Dynamics Mission Systems as Engineering VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Megan Fillinich Joins General Dynamics Mission Systems as Engineering VP

    General Dynamics Mission Systems has appointed former L3Harris Technologies executive Megan Fillinich as vice president of engineering. In her new role, she will oversee the company’s maritime and strategic systems business, with focus on supporting the U.S. Navy, Fillinich said in her LinkedIn post Wednesday announcing the appointment. Fillinich worked for more than five years […] More

  • TechnoMile Offers New WinIt CRM Software to Small Government Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechnoMile Offers New WinIt CRM Software to Small Government Contractors

    TechnoMile has launched WinIt, an artificial intelligence-based customer relationship management software designed for small government contractors. Mick Fox, TechnoMile’s chief operating officer, said in a statement Tuesday that the new tool adopts the best practices and learnings from the company’s over 10 years of providing services to federal contractors. “WinIt makes it easier than ever […] More

  • CDAO’s Tradewinds Lists SAIC AI-Based Logistics Tool as ‘Awardable’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDAO’s Tradewinds Lists SAIC AI-Based Logistics Tool as ‘Awardable’

    Science Applications International Corp.’s artificial intelligence-based tool for contested logistics has been listed as “awardable” in the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. Vincent DiFronzo, SAIC executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Air Force and combatant commands business group, called the application’s CDAO categorization as an “exciting milestone” for […] More

  • Parsons Debuts ZEUS 4 Mine-Clearing System for Air Force JLTVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Debuts ZEUS 4 Mine-Clearing System for Air Force JLTVs

    Parsons has developed ZEUS 4, a next-generation directed laser energy mine-clearing system for integration onto a joint light tactical vehicle, or JLTV, under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center, Readiness Directorate.  Mike Kushin, Parsons’ president of defense and intelligence, said that aside from enhancing operational capabilities, the […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Partners With Nokia & Verizon on 5G for DOD Use - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Partners With Nokia & Verizon on 5G for DOD Use

    Nokia’s 5G technologies and Verizon network management capabilities have been integrated into Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL hybrid base station in demonstrations of commercial 5G interoperability with military communication networks. Open systems architecture and commercial standards were integrated in traditional tactical communication tools during the demonstrations, Lockheed Martin said. The open standards approach enables the rapid integration […] More

  • Core4ce Appoints Navy Vet Doug Small to Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Core4ce Appoints Navy Vet Doug Small to Advisory Board

    Core4ce, a federal contractor for data and cybersecurity services, has appointed Doug Small, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, to its board of advisers. He brings to the Arlington, Virginia-based company over 30 years of military experience, including as leader of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Core4ce said Thursday. Project Overmatch Past Lead Role […] More

  • Trump Appoints CACI Exec Hung Cao as Navy Under Secretary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trump Appoints CACI Exec Hung Cao as Navy Under Secretary

    President Donald Trump has nominated Hung Cao, a retired U.S. Navy captain, as Department of the Navy under secretary, calling him “the embodiment of the American Dream,” the New York Post reported Friday. Trump cited Cao’s 25 years of combat experience as a special operations officer and his immigration to the United States as a […] More

  • PsiQuantum Develops New Chipset for Quantum Computing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PsiQuantum Develops New Chipset for Quantum Computing

    PsiQuantum will deploy Omega, a photonic chipset designed specifically for the utility-scale quantum computers it is developing in the United States and Australia under partnership agreements. The company presented the chipset’s advanced components and features vital to the development of million-cubit-scale quantum computers in a paper Nature published Wednesday. The paper discussed the high-fidelity qubit […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Demos New System Against Small Drones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Demos New System Against Small Drones

    Lockheed Martin announced it had completed the first in a series of field demonstrations for a new counter-unmanned aerial system designed to deter small drones.  The new tool uses a command and control platform to integrate various sensors to collect data for conversion into actionable information through Lockheed’s complementary technologies, Tyler Griffin, Lockheed Martin’s C-UAS […] More