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  • CAMRIS International to Help Naval Medical Research Unit Study Emerging Infectious Diseases - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAMRIS International to Help Naval Medical Research Unit Study Emerging Infectious Diseases

    CAMRIS International has won a $32.7 million contract to perform field and laboratory research support for the Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in the area of emerging infectious diseases. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide management support between the U.S. government and potentially foreign personnel based in Egypt and other countries under […] More

  • HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems' Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems’ Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Chembio Diagnostic Systems $5.9 million in initial contract funds to develop a lateral-flow serological test to identify antibodies produced by the human immune system in response to Zika virus. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will provide the funds to support the test’s continued development, manufacturing preparations and […] More

  • 3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization

    VMware has said Amway, iGov Technologies and SugarCreek will deploy the VMware Virtual SAN hyperconverged service to run business-critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. The technology works to support shared storage for virtualized production environments that can scale out to several server providers, VMware said Tuesday. Michigan-based Amway transitioned 300 application servers, databases and other workloads to Virtual SAN. Systems integrator and value-added reseller […] More

  • AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments

    AlloSource, a nonprofit cellular and tissue network, has partnered with NASA and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct microbial research in an effort to help improve medical care for astronauts who fly into space. A team of AlloSource, NASA and JPL scientists aims to determine the effects of zero gravity on antibiotic resistant genes in microorganisms taken […] More

  • Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Ensco Inc. has been awarded a two-year, $4 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop an integrated sensor system for the detection of biological and environmental health hazards in buildings. The company said Thursday it aims to build, test and integrate a tiered aerosol detection system with dedicated environmental monitoring sensors and emerging commercial sensors under the second phase […] More

  • CGI to Provide Application Mgmt Support to Alberta Human Services Agency; Shawn Derby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Provide Application Mgmt Support to Alberta Human Services Agency; Shawn Derby Comments

    CGI has been awarded a five-year, $30.4 million contract to perform application management services for the human services ministry of Canada’s Alberta province. The company said Tuesday it will work to maintain applications, update AMS, develop tools to simplify agency operations and support a newly formed innovation office at  Alberta Human Services under the contract, CGI said Tuesday. Shawn Derby, senior vice president […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System

    Raytheon has received an 18-month, $45.4 million delivery order to supply repaired and new units of the Phalanx close-in-weapon system to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Navy issued the order as a bridge action under a previously awarded contract for performance-based logistics support of Phalanx to procure line-item units in compliance with the service branch’s fleet […] More

  • Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navmar Applied Sciences to Build, Test ISR Sensors for US Naval Platforms

    Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. has received a two-year, $12.4 million order from the U.S. Navy to develop and test intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors for current maritime platforms of the military service branch. The Navy plans to integrate the sensors into naval platforms to support various operations of the Special Operations Command, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Unisys: Law Enforcement Provides Key Opportunity to Integrate Biometrics Into Wearable Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys: Law Enforcement Provides Key Opportunity to Integrate Biometrics Into Wearable Tech

    A Unisys study predicts that law enforcement would lead the integration of biometrics into wearable technology in order to identify known or suspected criminals and terrorists. The company polled 54 biometrics professionals at the Biometrics Institute Asia Pacific Conference in Australia from May 24 to 26 for the study, Unisys said Tuesday. The survey indicates that 63 percent […] More

  • Riverbed's Davis Johnson: Legacy IT, Mobile Tech Pose Challenges to Federal Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Legacy IT, Mobile Tech Pose Challenges to Federal Agencies

    Davis Johnson, vice president of Riverbed Technology‘s public sector business, has noted legacy information technology systems and mobile cybersecurity issues as among the technical challenges facing agencies in an interview published Tuesday on Nextgov. Johnson told Nextgov’s Camille Tuutti that he still sees highly decentralized legacy IT platforms across the government and commercial sectors. “The government right now is really focused […] More

  • CH2M-Parsons JV to Support DC Water Underground Infrastructure Repair Project; Michael Walsh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M-Parsons JV to Support DC Water Underground Infrastructure Repair Project; Michael Walsh Comments

    A joint venture of CH2M and Parsons will work to assist the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority in the repair of underground infrastructure in Washington, D.C. and neighboring areas under a $1.3 billion program. The team will provide program management services to develop and implement DC Water’s capital improvement program under the potential […] More

  • Northrop to Develop Beam Control System for Air Force Fighter Jet Laser Weapon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop Beam Control System for Air Force Fighter Jet Laser Weapon

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential five-year, $39.3 million contract to develop a beam control technology for integration into the laser weapons system for a tactical pod on a U.S. Air Force fighter jet. The Defense Department said Tuesday the effort is part of the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator Turret Research in Aero-Effects program that will work to collect […] More