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  • Joe DellaVedova: New Lockheed Contract Award Covers F-35 'Blueprint for Affordability' Phase 2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe DellaVedova: New Lockheed Contract Award Covers F-35 ‘Blueprint for Affordability’ Phase 2

    Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 joint program office, has said a $60 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin would support the second phase of the Blueprint for Affordability program in an effort to cut the production costs of the F-35 fighter jet, Defense News reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded the $60 […] More

  • QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Deploys Cloud-Based Unemployment Insurance System; David McOmber Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has deployed a cloud-based platform designed to help states process and deliver unemployment insurance benefits and comply with the Labor Department’s requirement to develop practices that seek to reduce costs in the workforce system. The unemployment insurance and single state tax system complies with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and is […] More

  • ASRC Federal, Xentity Secure Forest Service Geospatial Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASRC Federal, Xentity Secure Forest Service Geospatial Support IDIQ

    An ASRC Federal subsidiary and Xentity have won spots on a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide geospatial support services for the Agriculture Department’s Forest Service. A contract award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says ASRC Federal Data Networx and Xentity will provide vector and imagery-based data analysis, geospatial training, remote sensing and services related to the […] More

  • BDO USA Survey: 79% of Public Company Directors Say Boards More Involved in Cybersecurity; Gregory Garrett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BDO USA Survey: 79% of Public Company Directors Say Boards More Involved in Cybersecurity; Gregory Garrett Comments

    A new BDO USA survey has found that 79 percent of board members at public companies say their boards have become more involved in cybersecurity efforts than they were in the past year. The company said Tuesday its corporate government practice polled 140 public company directors in August for the 2017 BDO Survey on Cyber Governance. […] More

  • IBM’s Robert Kleppinger on Cognitive Computing Platform’s Use in Army Maintenance, Logistics Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Robert Kleppinger on Cognitive Computing Platform’s Use in Army Maintenance, Logistics Operations

    Robert Kleppinger, a senior client partner at IBM responsible for federal government contracts, told Data Center Dynamics in an interview published Tuesday how the company plans to apply its Watson cognitive computing system to the U.S. Army’s maintenance and logistics activities under a $135 million recompete contract. “Ideally, the plan is to bring this further, probably next to […] More

  • NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will award approximately $3.9 million in total grants to 21 small businesses to research and develop novel technology platforms. NIST said Monday it selected the companies based on their submitted proposals that seek to address challenges across several technology areas such as collaboration and partnership; precision measurements; systems; data […] More

  • Industry Commends DoD Memo on Cloud Migration Effort; ViON’s Rob Davies Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Commends DoD Memo on Cloud Migration Effort; ViON’s Rob Davies Comments

    Some industry executives have welcomed a Defense Department memorandum that seeks to accelerate the migration of the agency’s information technology systems to the cloud, MeriTalk reported Monday. “There’s a ton of innovation that’s available to the government and it just needs someone to take a risk,” said Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Raytheon, Harris Back Air Force Multi-Domain C2 Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, Raytheon, Harris Back Air Force Multi-Domain C2 Efforts

    Companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Harris have launched initiatives to help the U.S. Air Force come up with new approaches that can be used in multi-domain command and control operations, C4ISRNET reported Monday. Lockheed will conduct another war game this fall in support of the service branch and the multi-domain C2 enterprise capability […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Info on Sensing, Neutralization Tech Platforms Against Small Drones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Info on Sensing, Neutralization Tech Platforms Against Small Drones

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to provide information on novel technology platforms designed to counter small unmanned aerial systems. A request for information posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps says DARPA is interested in modular and scalable platforms that work to identify and target small drones and could complement systems that are still in […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Unveils New Unmanned Ground Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Unveils New Unmanned Ground Vehicle

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has launched a new robotic platform that complies with the Defense Department’s Interoperability Profile initiative that seeks to maintain interoperability standards for unmanned ground vehicles. The Remotec-built Andros Nomad is a 164-pound UGV that has four independent track pods designed to climb uneven terrain and inclines up to 60 degrees and has […] More

  • Reports: Deloitte Hack Compromises Company Email Server - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Deloitte Hack Compromises Company Email Server

    Deloitte has been a target of a cyber attack that compromised the accounting firm’s global email server through the use of an “administrator’s account” to gain access, The Guardian reported Monday. The report said Deloitte learned of the security breach in March and that hacking activities could have started since October 2016 and appeared to home […] More

  • Leanne Caret: Boeing Sees Growth Opportunities in Satellites, Space Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leanne Caret: Boeing Sees Growth Opportunities in Satellites, Space Exploration

    Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, told CNBC in a video interview aired Friday, that the company considers space exploration and satellite business as “key” growth opportunities. “I think there’s an excitement about space that we haven’t seen in the last few decades that’s really keeping the conversation going in a positive direction, and […] More