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  • Jon Kirchner Named Chief Product Officer at BlackSky - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jon Kirchner Named Chief Product Officer at BlackSky

    Jon Kirchner, a 30-year industry executive, has been named chief product officer at geospatial intelligence company BlackSky Technology. He will be part of BlackSky’s executive leadership team and oversee the delivery of intelligence and dynamic monitoring products and services to customers, the company said Wednesday. “Jon’s leadership will play a critical role as we advance […] More

  • DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan

    The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day on Nov. 7 to discuss the Enterprise CLoud Infrastructure Provider Suite program currently in development. DHS will provide an overview of the award structure, projected spend and scope of the proposed ECLIPS program and host a question-and-answer session related to the effort, according to a […] More

  • Empower AI's Allen Badeau: Agencies Should Advance AI Integration to Accelerate Decision Making - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Empower AI’s Allen Badeau: Agencies Should Advance AI Integration to Accelerate Decision Making

    Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said the Department of Defense and other government agencies should treat artificial intelligence as a core technology element and as part of their foundational information technology infrastructure as they look to advance the use of AI to speed up the decision-making process. Badeau wrote in an opinion […] More

  • iTech AG to Work With GovCIO Subsidiary on EPA IT Support Task Order; Randall Brown Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iTech AG to Work With GovCIO Subsidiary on EPA IT Support Task Order; Randall Brown Quoted

    Technology consulting firm iTech AG announced that it will support GovCIO’s Salient CRGT subsidiary as the latter delivers information technology services to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of EPA’s Enterprise Support Services and Endpoint Technology program. In September, GovCIO announced the award of a potential seven-year, $524 million task order through the General Services […] More

  • Florida Uses LexisNexis Special Services Platform to Block Overseas D-SNAP Fraudsters; Haywood Talcove Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Florida Uses LexisNexis Special Services Platform to Block Overseas D-SNAP Fraudsters; Haywood Talcove Quoted

    The Florida Department of Children and Families has deployed a security control system from LexisNexis Special Services to protect the state’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from being exploited by international fraudsters, News 6 reported Friday. The move is part of DCF’s efforts to prevent a potential rise in overseas scammers that would try to […] More

  • Paperless Innovations Selects Amtower & Company for Government Marketing Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations Selects Amtower & Company for Government Marketing Support

    Paperless Innovations has tapped Amtower & Company to provide government marketing consulting support and continuing professional development and education for its personnel through a consultancy agreement. The announcement comes as Paperless works to bring to the government market its cloud-based Actus platform designed to help agencies automate management of procurement card transactions. Mark Amtower, a […] More

  • Lockheed Holds Event to Demo Tech, Discuss Space 2050 Vision; Robert Lightfoot Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Holds Event to Demo Tech, Discuss Space 2050 Vision; Robert Lightfoot Quoted

    Lockheed Martin demonstrated at the company’s inaugural Destination: Space 2050 event a self-adapting autonomous platform and quantum technology that could support future defense, civil and commercial space missions. Lockheed said Thursday the event sought to incite discussion among experts and customers about the space’s future in the areas of space defense, extraplanetary operations, space logistics, […] More

  • Raytheon Pairs Zero Trust Platform With RedHat OpenShift; John DeSimone Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Pairs Zero Trust Platform With RedHat OpenShift; John DeSimone Quoted

    A Raytheon Technologies business has combined its zero trust offering with Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform to help customers facilitate security deployments across information and operational technology environments. REDPro ZTX from Raytheon Intelligence and Space is a zero trust integration platform that supports vendor-agnostic applications and is designed to speed up enterprise-scale zero trust […] More

  • PsiQuantum to Work on Quantum Photonic Chips Under AFRL Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PsiQuantum to Work on Quantum Photonic Chips Under AFRL Contract

    PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More

  • Army Seeks White Papers on Counter-sUAS Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks White Papers on Counter-sUAS Technologies

    The U.S. Army is soliciting white papers from vendors to determine industry interest in demonstrating fixed or mobile capabilities that can counter threats posed by Group 3 small unmanned aircraft systems. Interested stakeholders should only submit white papers if their proposed systems are ready for testing by May 2023, according to a project announcement published […] More

  • Ventech’s Kathrine Dass Named 2022 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Awardee; Tonia Bleecher Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ventech’s Kathrine Dass Named 2022 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Awardee; Tonia Bleecher Quoted

    Kathrine Dass, chief delivery officer at Ventech Solutions, has been selected by a panel of government and industry leaders in the federal information technology sector as a recipient of the 2022 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Award. The 5th Annual Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Awards seeks to recognize women leaders for creating […] More

  • Space Force Seeks to Establish Contract Vehicle for Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Force Seeks to Establish Contract Vehicle for Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 Program

    The U.S. Space Force has issued a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a program that seeks to acquire spacecraft and space access for science and technology experiments. Space Systems Command intends to compete the Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 program as a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with separate delivery orders for spacecraft […] More