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  • Army Picks 10 Small Businesses for SBIR Phase I Contract Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks 10 Small Businesses for SBIR Phase I Contract Awards

    The U.S. Army has awarded contracts to 10 small businesses under the first phase of the Small Business Innovation Research program to enable them to further develop their proposed platforms in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning and clean technology. Each business will receive up to $250,000 to work on AI and ML […] More

  • Doug Wagoner, President and CEO of LMI, Named to 2023 Wash100 for Space Market Entry & Customer Innovation Vision - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Doug Wagoner, President and CEO of LMI, Named to 2023 Wash100 for Space Market Entry & Customer Innovation Vision

    Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Doug Wagoner, president and CEO of LMI, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner for shepherding the government consulting firm through its expansion into the space market and innovation support to customers. This recognition is Wagoner’s fourth Wash100 win. “Doug Wagoner has shepherded the fundamental transformation of LMI into one […] More

  • Paperless Innovations on Integrating Commercial SaaS Platforms Into QSMO Marketplaces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations on Integrating Commercial SaaS Platforms Into QSMO Marketplaces

    The Office of Management and Budget designated the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of the Treasury as quality service management offices for cybersecurity services, grant management and core financial management, respectively, as part of efforts to advance shared services modernization. Paperless Innovations said Thursday these QSMOs […] More

  • DARPA Names Research Teams for Reimagining Protein Manufacturing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Names Research Teams for Reimagining Protein Manufacturing Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected research teams from Ginkgo Bioworks, Leidos and Northwestern University for the Reimagining Protein Manufacturing program that seeks to build tools to help accelerate on-demand production of protein-based drugs. “The current process for producing protein-based therapeutics requires more than a year to establish, while still requiring purification and […] More

  • Magellan Federal to Support Recovery Coordination Program Under DHA Bridge Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Magellan Federal to Support Recovery Coordination Program Under DHA Bridge Contract

    Magellan Federal has received a six-month bridge contract from the Defense Health Agency to provide support services for the Department of Defense’s Recovery Coordination Program. The Recovery Coordination Program offers professional services to support the implementation of DOD’s Recovery Care Coordinator initiative, Recovery Coordination Program-Support Solution, Military Adaptive Sports Program, Education and Employment Initiative, National […] More

  • Quantum Tech Startup SandboxAQ Secures $500M in Funding - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quantum Tech Startup SandboxAQ Secures $500M in Funding

    SandboxAQ, a quantum computing technology startup that spun off from Alphabet in 2022, has raised $500 million in a round of funding from several investors to advance quantum and cybersecurity work, Reuters reported Tuesday. Investors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who serves as chairman of SandboxAQ, T. Rowe Price funds, Breyer Capital and Time […] More

  • DARPA Concludes Flight Tests of AI Algorithms on Modified F-16 Test Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Concludes Flight Tests of AI Algorithms on Modified F-16 Test Aircraft

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency completed the first flight tests of artificial intelligence algorithms on a Lockheed Martin-built modified F-16 fighter jet, dubbed X-62A Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft, in December. The AI algorithms developed through DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program were uploaded into VISTA at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards […] More

  • AWS Launches Modular Data Center for Defense Customers; Liz Martin Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Launches Modular Data Center for Defense Customers; Liz Martin Quoted

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled a modular data center designed to help Department of Defense customers field storage and compute capabilities to manage large workloads in disconnected, disrupted, intermittent or limited environments.  AWS Modular Data Center is supported in AWS GovCloud US-West and US-East regions and seeks to support government customers that are eligible for […] More

  • Bechtel’s SIMCO Business Gets DOE OK to Assume Management of Waste Isolation Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel’s SIMCO Business Gets DOE OK to Assume Management of Waste Isolation Facility

    A Bechtel subsidiary has received authorization from the Department of Energy to begin managing and operating the country’s only underground disposal facility for defense-related transuranic nuclear waste. Tularosa Basin Range Services, doing business as Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, won a potential 10-year, $3 billion contract in July 2022 to operate DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant […] More

  • LexisNexis’ Haywood Talcove: Government Should Have Tech in Place to Detect, Stop Public Sector Fraud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis’ Haywood Talcove: Government Should Have Tech in Place to Detect, Stop Public Sector Fraud

    Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government business at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said money lost to fraud represents taxpayer dollars that are being directed to domestic and foreign cybercriminal groups and the U.S. government should act now by adopting best practices and technologies the private sector implements to counter fraud in the public sector. “It is […] More

  • NASA Solicits Feedback on Draft Commercial Space Tech Flight Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solicits Feedback on Draft Commercial Space Tech Flight Solicitation

    NASA is seeking comments on a draft request for proposals for a program to procure space on commercial flights for space technology payloads and acquire services to fly NASA researchers aboard suborbital platforms. Responses to the draft RFP for the Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services 4 program are due March 11, NASA said […] More