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  • Johns Hopkins APL to Develop Retinal Prosthesis System; Kapil Katyal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL to Develop Retinal Prosthesis System; Kapil Katyal Comments

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will develop a retinal prosthesis system with $4 million in funding from Mann Fund. The lab will will work with Second Sight Medical Products Inc. to embed vision and eye tracking sensors into the glasses for the system to identify obstacles, doorways, hallways and objects within a household, Johns Hopkins APL said […] More

  • Cisco, IBM Form IoT/M2M Alliance with Industry; Thorsten Kramp Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, IBM Form IoT/M2M Alliance with Industry; Thorsten Kramp Comments

    Cisco and IBM have forged a partnership with other companies to develop and deliver Internet of Things and machine-to-machine services, PCC Mobile Broadband reported Friday. The LoRa alliance will focus on providing M2M, smart city, sensor network and industrial automation applications through wireless area network standards, according to the report. “In addition to IBM’s support […] More

  • Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on 'Top CIO for 2014’ List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on ‘Top CIO for 2014’ List

    Research and advisory firm ExecRank has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,” a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

  • Engility to Extend FAA Volpe Center Technical, Management Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Extend FAA Volpe Center Technical, Management Services

    Engility Holdings Inc. has won a $50.7 million contract to continue its technical, management and analysis services work for the John A. Volpe Transportation Center. Engility will develop, evaluate and manage programs within the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic systems directorate for 18 months, the company said Thursday. The company will aid in air traffic management […] More

  • Ray Duquette: USA to Develop Simulation, Training System for NASC's UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Duquette: USA to Develop Simulation, Training System for NASC’s UAVs

    CAE has been selected to provide a simulation and training system for NAVMAR Applied Sciences’ unmanned aerial vehicles, Intelligence Aerospace reported Wednesday. Courtney Howard writes CAE will develop courseware, ground control station and simulator and training services for NASC’s TigerShark XP drones. “We are delighted that NASC has selected CAE as their simulation and training […] More

  • Navy OKs More Raytheon SM-6 Weapons for Aegis Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy OKs More Raytheon SM-6 Weapons for Aegis Systems

    The U.S. Navy has approved additional installations of Raytheon Standard Missile-6 weapon system on ships that carry two baselines of Aegis Combat Weapon Systems. More than 35 ships in the Aegis Combat Weapon System baselines 5.3 and 3.A.0 series will be equipped with SM-6, Raytheon said Wednesday. SM-6 weapons work to engage manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and fixed- […] More

  • NGA Launches DigitalGlobe-Built Data Storage App; Tony Frazier, Chris Rasmussen Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Launches DigitalGlobe-Built Data Storage App; Tony Frazier, Chris Rasmussen Comment

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has unveiled a geospatial application developed by DigitalGlobe to help the public store and process raster data. The MapReduce Geo toolkit is designed for users to search, download, preprocess and format data for analysis using a cloud-based architecture, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. “The project demonstrates how public-private partnerships can create innovative solutions,” […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Crunchy Data’s Services in Public Sector Market; Natalie Gregory Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Crunchy Data’s Services in Public Sector Market; Natalie Gregory Comments

    Carahsoft Technology Corp. has agreed to distribute the products and services of Crunchy Data Solutions throughout the public sector market. Carahsoft will act as Crunchy Data’s government aggregator in an effort to spur market demand for Crunchy’s open source PostgreSQL technology offerings, Carahsoft said Wednesday. “Through our partnership with Crunchy, we will be able to provide […] More

  • Report: Lockheed-Sikorsky JV, Navy Discuss Helicopter Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed-Sikorsky JV, Navy Discuss Helicopter Maintenance Contract

    Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft’s joint venture is discussing a follow-on contract with the U.S. Navy to maintain the service’s H-60 helicopter fleet, Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes the Maritime Helicopter Support Co. works to repair, modify and procure more than 1,700 airframe and avionics parts for the H-60 series aircraft under […] More

  • FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments

    Telos ID has obtained the FBI’s certification for the company’s fingerprint capture and enrollment software. The FBI’s criminal justice information services division and Mitre Corp. collaborated to review Telos ID’s MobileAssure fingerprint web capture and MobileAssure enrollment software, Telos ID said Tuesday. “Telos ID continues to work closely with the FBI and other law enforcement […] More

  • Exelis to Build Maritime Electronic Warfare Tech for Sweden; Dave Prater Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Build Maritime Electronic Warfare Tech for Sweden; Dave Prater Comments

    Exelis has won a more than $17 million contract from shipbuilder Saab to supply electronic support measures to Sweden. The company will build ES-3701 electronic warfare technology for situational awareness, targeting, self-protection and surveillance missions, Exelis said Tuesday. “Our ESM technology will equip Sweden to handle a range of emerging threats they face, now and in […] More

  • US Navy Seeks Proposals for ERP Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Seeks Proposals for ERP Support Services

    The Department of the Navy is seeking industry proposals to manage and maintain the service’s enterprise resource planning system. The Navy issued a request for proposals Friday for products and services such as business services management, reporting and analysis, user management and operational support. The service plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a base […] More