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  • Air Combat Command to Hold Discussions on Long Range Kill Chain Concepts in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Combat Command to Hold Discussions on Long Range Kill Chain Concepts in January

    Air Combat Command will host two separate Industry Information Exchange briefings on Jan. 12 at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to discuss Long Range Kill Chain concepts. ACC expects the IIE events to help promote discussions on emerging technologies related to the command’s core functions among academia, industry and government organizations, according to a […] More

  • Contractors Urged to Update GSA Advantage Order Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Contractors Urged to Update GSA Advantage Order Status

    The General Services Administration has called on eligible contractors to update their GSA Advantage order status. GSA said Thursday the Multiple Award Schedule Solicitation requires order status reporting. “Schedule contractors must use EDI, cXML or the GSA Advantage Purchase Order Portal to provide order status that enables ordering agencies to track the location of an […] More

  • Dell Technologies, AWS Launch Data Protection, Recovery Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Technologies, AWS Launch Data Protection, Recovery Tool

    Dell Technologies and Amazon Web Services have unveiled a cloud-based offering meant to help organizations secure, isolate and recover data from a ransomware attack and other cyber breaches. Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery for AWS is a data protection platform that allows customers to field a public cloud vault to help isolate data from the […] More

  • Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac Testifies Before Senate Panel on FedRAMP Bill - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac Testifies Before Senate Panel on FedRAMP Bill

    Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler, said he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable Tuesday and highlighted how the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program enabled government agencies to immediately transition to the cloud during the COVID-19 pandemic. “FedRAMP promotes cloud adoption across […] More

  • Deloitte Survey: Majority of US Executives Link Pandemic-Related Disruption to Rise in Cyberthreats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Survey: Majority of US Executives Link Pandemic-Related Disruption to Rise in Cyberthreats

    A survey by Deloitte has found that 86 percent of C-suite executives in the U.S. say that disruption caused by the pandemic resulted in an increase in cyberthreats within their organizations. Deloitte surveyed 577 C-suite officials worldwide, including 159 executives from U.S.-based companies, for the 2021 Future of Cyber report and found that 14 percent […] More

  • CAES Introduces GaN-Based RF Amplifier for Airborne Electronic Warfare Systems; David Young Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAES Introduces GaN-Based RF Amplifier for Airborne Electronic Warfare Systems; David Young Quoted

    CAES has launched a gallium nitride-based, high-power radio frequency amplifier designed to provide electronic attack capability for SwaP-constrained electronic warfare pods, unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne systems. The wideband, ruggedized RF amplifier has chill plates to provide liquid flow-through cooling capability and custom GaN packaging to improve heat transfer efficiency, CAES said Wednesday. David […] More

  • DOJ Launches Market Research for Asset Forfeiture Investigative Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Launches Market Research for Asset Forfeiture Investigative Support Services

    The Department of Justice has issued a request for information on potential contractors that could provide investigative, analytical, technical and legal professional services in support of the Asset Forfeiture Program. DOJ intends to meet the asset forfeiture management staff’s requirements through a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to a sources sought notice published Tuesday. The department […] More

  • Quantum Tech Company Q-CTRL Announces Series B Funding Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quantum Tech Company Q-CTRL Announces Series B Funding Round

    Q-CTRL, an Australia-based quantum control software company, has raised $25 million in a round of Series B financing led by Airbus Ventures. The latest financing round will enable Q-CTRL to expand its quantum control infrastructure software development initiatives and broaden its presence into quantum sensing-backed data-as-a-service markets, Airbus Ventures said Tuesday. Q-CTRL is working on […] More

  • Navy Fields Raytheon-Built Stormbreaker Munition on F-35B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Fields Raytheon-Built Stormbreaker Munition on F-35B

    A Raytheon Technologies business and the U.S. Navy demonstrated the deployment of a StormBreaker smart weapon from an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet of the Marine Corps. An F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft also showed its network connectivity capabilities during the test after tracking the Raytheon Missiles & Defense-built weapon through a common network following its […] More

  • Jerome Powell: New Federal Reserve Center, BIS Innovation Hub to Back Digital Currency Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerome Powell: New Federal Reserve Center, BIS Innovation Hub to Back Digital Currency Analysis

    Jerome Powell, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, said the newly established New York Innovation Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has formed a strategic partnership with the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub to support the agency’s analysis of digital currencies. “In particular, the partnership will […] More