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  • Report: DISA Aims to Pave Way for Cloud via Solicitations for Network Modernization Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DISA Aims to Pave Way for Cloud via Solicitations for Network Modernization Plans

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued two solicitations as it plans to update the Pentagon’s unclassified and classified networks, Bloomberg Government reported Monday. The solicitations issued Nov. 15 for the Department of Defense Network Services program come as DoD works to provide other defense agencies an opportunity to adopt the CSRA-developed MilCloud 2.0 system […] More

  • Lockheed-Built ‘InSight’ Spacecraft Lands on Mars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built ‘InSight’ Spacecraft Lands on Mars

    A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA’s Mars exploration mission landed Monday on the red planet’s surface. The InSight Mars Lander made its descent on Elysium Planitia in the planet’s equatorial region and transmitted a tone through its X-band small deep space transponder seven minutes after the spacecraft’s landing, Lockheed said Monday. The spacecraft […] More

  • NASA Solicits Feedback on Follow-On Mechanical Integrated Services & Technologies Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solicits Feedback on Follow-On Mechanical Integrated Services & Technologies Contract

    NASA has started to seek information on potential offerors that can provide mechanical systems engineering support through the Mechanical Integrated Services and Technologies recompete contract. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says NASA wants interested stakeholders to submit capability statements to determine how to acquire the services through the proposed MIST II contract in support of […] More

  • Mac Curtis: Perspecta Leverages IP to Support Government Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mac Curtis: Perspecta Leverages IP to Support Government Clients

    Perspecta CEO Mac Curtis told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Tuesday how the company capitalizes on its intellectual property portfolio and experience in applied research to support government customers. “We’re not a product company,” Curtis told WBJ’s Robert Terry. “But we are a solutions company that leverages its IP to help enhance […] More

  • Boeing, SparkCognition Seek to Introduce AI-Based Drone Airspace Mgmt Software via Joint Venture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, SparkCognition Seek to Introduce AI-Based Drone Airspace Mgmt Software via Joint Venture

    Boeing and SparkCognition intend to form a new joint venture that will develop software platforms designed to integrate autonomous cargo vehicles and other unmanned aircraft systems into the global airspace. Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition, will serve as CEO of Austin, Texas-based SkyGrid that will help clients perform emergency response, industrial inspections and […] More

  • Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on USAF’s Protected Anti-Jam Tactical Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on USAF’s Protected Anti-Jam Tactical Satcom

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government has said the Protected Anti-Jam Tactical Satcom program’s goal to protect both government and commercial satellite networks is a “very interesting shift and a very important focus,” SpaceNews reported Monday. “If one is jammed, you have other systems to fall back on,” Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, said […] More

  • Parsons’ Ronald Nielson: US Cyber Posture Calls for People, Tech Integration Across Gov’t, Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons’ Ronald Nielson: US Cyber Posture Calls for People, Tech Integration Across Gov’t, Industry

    Ronald Nielson, chief technology officer at Parsons’ cyber and intelligence division, has said the incorporation of commercial cybersecurity platforms into federal networks has helped promote industry innovation and allowed the Defense Department to counter threat actors. “Our nation’s cybersecurity prowess is best measured as an integration of people, processes and technologies,” Nielson said in his […] More

  • Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon

    The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Construction Work on X-59 Supersonic Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Construction Work on X-59 Supersonic Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is designed to travel at a speed of approximately 940 miles per hour at 55K feet and reduce sonic boom noise […] More

  • JBG Smith Selected for Amazon Northern Virginia HQ Development Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    JBG Smith Selected for Amazon Northern Virginia HQ Development Project

    Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at its buildings through an agreement. Northern Virginia’s Arlington is one of the two locations […] More

  • Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019

    Fortinet’s threat research arm predicts cyber adversaries will exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning to launch attacks on organizations’ networks and other information technology infrastructure in 2019 and beyond. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs expect cyber criminals to accelerate zero-day attacks through the use of the AI fuzzing technique, the company said Thursday. AI fuzzing works […] More

  • Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership

    Perspecta has teamed up with Abaco Systems through its research arm to market a data bus platform that works to help warfighters safeguard weapons systems from cyber attacks. Perspecta Labs developed the 1553 Bus Defender platform, also called MIL-STD-1553, under a research program of the Defense Department, the company said Thursday. Abaco has begun to […] More