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  • Collins Aerospace to Develop Space Trash Compactor System for NASA; Shawn Macleod Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace to Develop Space Trash Compactor System for NASA; Shawn Macleod Quoted

    Collins Aerospace, a company formed by Rockwell Collins and United Technologies Corp.’s aerospace systems business, has designed a waste management platform that decreases the volume of space trash by 93 percent. The firm said Wednesday it developed the concept of an integrated Trash Compaction and Processing System as part of NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 […] More

  • DLH Achieves Joint Commission Certification for VA Healthcare Services; Kevin Wilson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLH Achieves Joint Commission Certification for VA Healthcare Services; Kevin Wilson Quoted

    The Joint Commission has given DLH a Gold Seal of Approval that certifies the quality and safety of the company’s clinical healthcare operations. The Atlanta, Ga.-based healthcare firm said Tuesday it was selected for its healthcare staffing services in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy program. DLH went through onsite reviews that […] More

  • Leidos Obtains Microsoft Gold Competency for Cloud Platform; Steve Hull Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Obtains Microsoft Gold Competency for Cloud Platform; Steve Hull Quoted

    Leidos has achieved a gold competency certification from Microsoft that authorizes the former to deploy the latter’s portfolio of cloud offerings. The Cloud Platform certification allows the use of Microsoft’s products to support customers’ efforts to modernize cloud infrastructure, integrate data analytics technology and transition applications and data to the cloud, Leidos said Tuesday. Before […] More

  • AECOM Ranks First in Supplier Diversity Programs; John Vollmer Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Ranks First in Supplier Diversity Programs; John Vollmer Quoted

    AECOM has secured the No. 1 spot in Viqtory’s ranking of supplier diversity programs for 2019. The global infrastructure company said Monday it earned the distinction based on data such as supplier support and developments, goals and outcomes, personnel and infrastructure, and processes and controls. “Veteran-owned businesses are a vital part of our supplier diversity program and we’re proud […] More

  • NASA Receives Ball Aerospace-Built Air Quality Monitoring Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Receives Ball Aerospace-Built Air Quality Monitoring Instrument

    NASA has received a space-based spectrometer Ball Aerospace built to help researchers identify sources of pollutants in the atmosphere and predict quality of air. Ball said Friday it handed the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument over to NASA after completing a final acceptance review. TEMPO is designed to operate in geostationary orbit and report hourly measurements of […] More

  • Engility Books $54M in Q4 Intell Community Support Contracts; Lynn Dugle Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Books $54M in Q4 Intell Community Support Contracts; Lynn Dugle Quoted

    Engility has secured $54M in contracts during the fourth quarter of 2018 to provide systems engineering, analysis and mission support services to the U.S. intelligence community. The company said Thursday it has invested in data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies designed to assist intelligence analysts in their day-to-day responsibilities. “We are very proud to […] More

  • Raytheon Hands Over LCS Anti-Submarine Warfare Transmitter Component to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Hands Over LCS Anti-Submarine Warfare Transmitter Component to Navy

    The U.S. Navy received on Friday the Raytheon-built array transmitter component of the Littoral Combat Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Package. The company handed over the Dual-mode Array Transmitter Mission System to the service branch after the completion of acceptance trials at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Florida, Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday. The Navy will utilize […] More

  • SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Performs 16th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Performs 16th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft lifted off Wednesday aboard its Falcon 9 rocket to bring over 5.6K pounds of supplies and research payloads to the International Space Station. The launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida marks the company’s 16th mission to ISS under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services contract, the agency said Thursday. Dragon carried the Global Ecosystem Dynamics […] More

  • Hitachi Vantara Releases Cloud-Based Data Integration, Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Vantara Releases Cloud-Based Data Integration, Analytics Platform

    Hitachi Vantara has unveiled a software platform that works to help customers integrate and analyze data in hybrid cloud environments. Pentaho 8.2 is designed to operate with the Hitachi Content Platform to support data optimization and storage-related functions, the company said Tuesday. The integrated offering allows data scientists and analysts manage data from structured and unstructured […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Reaches Bennu Asteroid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Reaches Bennu Asteroid

    The Lockheed Martin-built Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer arrived Monday at the asteroid Bennu after a 1.2B-mile journey. NASA said Tuesday its navigation team will use preliminary survey data to prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s entrance to the potentially hazardous asteroid’s orbit on Dec. 31 to collect two ounces of regolith samples. The vehicle began maneuvers around Bennu […] More