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  • Battelle to Help Produce Coal Ash-Based Rare Earth Oxides Under DOE Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help Produce Coal Ash-Based Rare Earth Oxides Under DOE Project

    Battelle has teamed up with Rare Earth Salts on a potential $875,000 Energy Department project to produce rare earth oxides derived from coal ash. Battelle said Tuesday it will combine its acid digestion process with RES’ novel separation technique to generate rare earth oxide products from coal fly ash sources with a purity of at least 90 […] More

  • Benjamin’s Desk, 1776 to Form Combined Incubator Network for Startups - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Benjamin’s Desk, 1776 to Form Combined Incubator Network for Startups

    Global incubator 1776 has agreed to merge with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based coworking network and business incubator Benjamin’s Desk in a push to provide more resources to Northeast Corridor-based startups and entrepreneurs and help them build up their businesses. Evan Burfield, co-founder and CEO of 1776, will serve as executive chairman of the new combined network that […] More

  • Roger Krone Shares Insights on Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger at NVTC Titans Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone Shares Insights on Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger at NVTC Titans Event

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, talked about the Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor’s merger with Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global services business at the Titans breakfast event held Friday in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He discussed at the Northern Virginia Technology Council-hosted event how the transaction has helped Leidos to diversify its portfolio, build […] More

  • SpaceX’s End-of-Year Launch Manifest Includes ‘Zuma’ Mission, 4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s End-of-Year Launch Manifest Includes ‘Zuma’ Mission, 4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch

    SpaceX has squeezed in a mystery mission known as Zuma to its updated schedule of launches for 2017, NASASpaceFlight.com reported Monday. The Zuma mission, also known as Mission 1390 on the Federal Communications Commission launch license, is set to take off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket by Nov. 10 from a launch pad at Kennedy […] More

  • Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Larry Payne: FedRAMP ‘Tailored’ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s new “tailored” baseline process is designed to accelerate security assessments and certification of cloud service providers with software-as-a-service platforms, Cisco‘s Larry Payne wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday. Payne, vice president of public sector sales at Cisco, said the FedRAMP Tailored program seeks to reduce from 125 to 36 the number of security controls […] More

  • Nick Bucci: General Atomics Seeks Production Boost for Defense-Focused Small Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Bucci: General Atomics Seeks Production Boost for Defense-Focused Small Satellites

    General Atomics plans to increase production of small satellites such as 6U Cubesats and 1,100-pound satellites for defense clients, Space News reported Thursday. “Since we’ve acquired Miltech we’ve done a lot of investment in taking the lessons learned from how we build and design those satellites to improve our current generation of satellite design,” Nick […] More

  • IRS Orders Temporary Suspension of Equifax ID Verification Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Orders Temporary Suspension of Equifax ID Verification Support Contract

    The Internal Revenue Service has decided to temporarily postpone a $7.2 million contract awarded to consumer credit reporting firm Equifax for taxpayer identity verification support services as the agency continues to review the company’s systems, Politico reported Thursday. The decision came weeks after the agency awarded the sole-source contract to Equifax and amid reports that the […] More

  • ServiceNow Survey: 77% of Federal Execs Say Intelligent Work Automation Tech Needed Within 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ServiceNow Survey: 77% of Federal Execs Say Intelligent Work Automation Tech Needed Within 5 Years

    A new ServiceNow survey shows that 77 percent of federal government executives say their agencies need to increase use of intelligent automation platforms over the next five years to help address increasing workloads. ServiceNow said Thursday it commissioned research firm Market Connections to conduct an online survey of 150 federal decision-makers in September and found […] More

  • Report: Army Eyes 2018 Solicitation for Light Ground Mobility Vehicle Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Army Eyes 2018 Solicitation for Light Ground Mobility Vehicle Platform

    The U.S. Army looks to issue a request for proposals in 2018 to acquire a light ground mobility vehicle designed for transportation of infantry troops across future combat zones, Defense News reported Thursday. Col. Shane Fullmer, joint light tactical vehicles program manager at the Army, told reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting […] More

  • Report: Trump Administration Plans New Rules to Ease US Military Drone Exports - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Trump Administration Plans New Rules to Ease US Military Drone Exports

    The White House is on track to complete new policies that aim to facilitate the sale of U.S.-built military unmanned aircraft systems to international customers and help U.S. drone manufacturers compete with Israeli and Chinese counterparts, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Trump administration also intends to relax international restrictions on U.S. drone exports through the renegotiation […] More

  • GigaTrust Rolls Out Document Sharing Security Tool for DoD Suppliers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GigaTrust Rolls Out Document Sharing Security Tool for DoD Suppliers

    GigaTrust has launched a new document and email collaboration platform that works to help suppliers comply with the Defense Department’s security standards for email collaboration and file sharing activities. The company said Wednesday it is deploying the GigaCloud platform as a “community of interest” option for DoD suppliers that seek to comply with a National […] More

  • State Dept OKs $53M Raytheon Air-to-Air Missile Sale to Netherlands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs $53M Raytheon Air-to-Air Missile Sale to Netherlands

    The State Department has approved the Dutch government’s request to buy 26 Raytheon-built AIM-120 C-7 advanced medium range air-to-air missiles, military equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $53 million foreign military sales agreement. The Netherlands also asked to procure AMRAAM guidance section spares, captive air training missiles, control section spares, missile containers, test […] More