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  • MITRE's Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices

    MITRE Corp. will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to assess healthcare processes throughout the VA under a contract with undisclosed terms. The nonprofit research and development organization will serve as program integrator and coordinate the results of third-party assessments under the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014, the VA said Thursday. Bob McDonald, veterans affairs secretary, said the independent assessment “will provide the department a […] More

  • HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has respectively awarded $12.9 million and $14.7 million contracts to Alere and InDevR to further develop influenza detection test methods. Alere will work to develop a method to identify a patient infected with influenza virus type A or B based on its iNAT Influenza A&B test, HHS said Wednesday. InDevR will also continue work on its FluChip-8G test to […] More

  • Lenovo Closes IBM x86 Server Business Buy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lenovo Closes IBM x86 Server Business Buy

    Lenovo has completed the initial terms for its acquisition of IBM‘s x86 server business. Lenovo has bought the System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers, IBM said Wednesday. The company will also serve as IBM’s original equipment manufacturer and reseller of IBM’s Storwize storage products, Linear Tape Open products […] More

  • Pentagon, Defense Industry Continues 3D Printing Adoption; Adm. James Winnefeld, Mark Johnson Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon, Defense Industry Continues 3D Printing Adoption; Adm. James Winnefeld, Mark Johnson Comment

    The  defense industry continues to adopt the use of three-dimensional printing in order to build military equipment parts, Defense One reported Monday. Marcus Weisgerber writes Lockheed Martin builds tools for the F-35 fighter jet with 30 printers. Lockheed’s Mark Johnson told the publication the company uses 3D-printed tools to develop bracket locators and drill templates for the aircraft, according to […] More

  • Gayle Kline: ICF to Support EPA Training, Outreach Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gayle Kline: ICF to Support EPA Training, Outreach Programs

    ICF International has won a five-year, $18.5 million contract to provide support services for several technical, training, meeting and outreach programs run the Environmental Protection Agency. ICF will help the EPA’s Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation evaluate and document work related to remediation practices trends, the company said Tuesday. The company will also work to help the EPA and […] More

  • Rafael Awards Raytheon $150M for Iron Dome Components; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rafael Awards Raytheon $150M for Iron Dome Components; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    Rafael Advanced Defense Systems‘ has awarded a $149.3 million subcontract to Raytheon to build interceptor components for the Iron Dome weapon. Raytheon’s technology resources and network will serve as second supply source of Iron Dome interceptor parts, the company said Tuesday. “The sourcing of Tamir interceptor components in the U.S. will go a long way to ensuring sufficient volumes […] More

  • NASA Launches APL's Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Launches APL’s Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments

    NASA has launched the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-built Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science into space in order to study solar system objects. The spacecraft took off from the Fort Sumner, New Mexico-based NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Research Facility on Thursday and will work to detect organic elements on objects in the solar system, NASA said Thursday. BOPPS […] More

  • ReportBuyer: Global Mobile Satellite Services Market to Grow 7.4% by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportBuyer: Global Mobile Satellite Services Market to Grow 7.4% by 2018

    ReportBuyer has released a report that forecasts the global mobile satellite services market to grow 7.39 percent by 2018. The report factors in the wholesale mobile satellite services revenue in order to calculate the market size, ReportBuyer said Sept. 23. Key regions covered in the report are the Americas, the Asia-Pacific and Europe-Middle East-Africa. ReportBuyer also cites the following companies as key […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Enters Final Integration Phase; Michael Hawes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft Enters Final Integration Phase; Michael Hawes Comments

    Lockheed Martin and NASA have transferred the Orion spacecraft to the agency’s launch abort system facility at Kennedy Space Center. The company will integrate Orion with the launch abort system after Lockheed completes the ammonia, hydrazine and high pressure helium fueling of the spacecraft, the company said Monday. “Once the launch abort system is integrated and functional testing concludes, the spacecraft is considered […] More

  • Battelle’s Jason Black Outlines Best Practices for Grid Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle’s Jason Black Outlines Best Practices for Grid Security

    Jason Black, research lead of Battelle’s energy systems business, has urged utilities to go beyond the minimum grid security requirements outlined by North American Electric Reliability Corp. in a piece for Intelligent Utility published Thursday. He says utilities must factor in all potential risks such as equipment failure, weather-related disaster and man-made threats when developing a complete physical security plan. Each utility […] More

  • Louis Berger to Redesign Maryland Water, Sewer Facility; Anwer Hasan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Redesign Maryland Water, Sewer Facility; Anwer Hasan Comments

    Louis Berger has won a potential six-year, $8 million contract with the Washington Sanitary Suburban Commission to help rehabilitate a water and sewer facility in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, Maryland. The company will also work to relocate the facility’s transmission and distribution water pipelines, sewer pipelines and large meter vaults, Louis Berger said Wednesday. This contract contains a three-year, $4 […] More