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  • DoD to Use Battelle Biological Threat ID Tech in South Korea; Matt Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD to Use Battelle Biological Threat ID Tech in South Korea; Matt Shaw Comments

    The Defense Department has tapped Battelle to deploy the company’s bioaerosol threat identification technology in South Korea to help protect warfighters and civilians from biological threats. DoD will use Battelle’s Resource Effective Bio-Identification System tool to support a biological surveillance mission under the Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition program, the […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL, Harsco Form Unmanned Rail Security Tech Alliance; Jim Resio Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL, Harsco Form Unmanned Rail Security Tech Alliance; Jim Resio Comments

    Harsco’s Protran Technology unit and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have formed a partnership to market an unmanned vehicle technology designed to help operators manage the safety and security of rail operations. The alliance seeks to introduce the Instrumented Rail Inspection System offering to the entire Harsco network of railway and urban transit system customers as well […] More

  • Erickson to Transport Alaska Forestry Research Crew for USDA, Forest Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Erickson to Transport Alaska Forestry Research Crew for USDA, Forest Service

    Erickson has been selected to transport a research crew tasked to analyze forest areas in Alaska under a five-year contract with the Agriculture Department and U.S. Forest Service. Erickson said Wednesday the company will provide helicopter transport to interagency research crew led by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ division of forestry, USDA and USFS in support […] More

  • Intelsat to Provide Satellite Services for Myanmar’s Wireless Comms Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat to Provide Satellite Services for Myanmar’s Wireless Comms Network

    Intelsat has been selected to provide satellite services to Myanmar in an effort to build on the country’s 2G and 3G wireless network infrastructure. Myanmar’s ministry of transport and communications will initially utilize C-band satellite services from Intelsat 902 and Ku-band services from Intelsat 906 for wireless communications services, Intelsat said Friday. The goal is to expand broadband […] More

  • DRS Technologies, Autonomous Solutions to Automate Army Route-Clearance Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Technologies, Autonomous Solutions to Automate Army Route-Clearance Vehicles

    DRS Technologies and robotic vehicle technologies provider Autonomous Solutions Inc. have forged an agreement to build automated systems for U.S. Army route-clearance vehicles. The team will automate the High Mobility Engineering Excavator platform as part of the Army’s Route Clearance Interrogation System Type I program, DRS said Friday. Joseph Matteoni, vice president and general manager […] More

  • SOSi Subsidiary to Develop Social Media Analytics Tool for US Embassy in Iraq - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOSi Subsidiary to Develop Social Media Analytics Tool for US Embassy in Iraq

    SOS International’s subsidiary Exovera will develop a social media analytics tool for the U.S. embassy in Iraq under a three-year contract with the State Department. Exovera’s news desk and customer support center will work to track and analyze traditional and social media and provide analytical products to the embassy, SOSi said Wednesday. Jeremy Davis, Exovera president, said the company’s […] More

  • SolarWinds: Public Sector Organizations Shift to Hybrid IT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SolarWinds: Public Sector Organizations Shift to Hybrid IT

    A report by SolarWinds indicates that a majority of government agencies have transitioned to hybrid information technology platforms from on-premise environments. Its annual IT Trends Report is based on a December 2015 survey of 116 IT practitioners and leaders from small, midsize and large public sector organizations in the U.S. and Canada, SolarWinds said May 24. “The […] More

  • DOE Org Taps PARC to Develop Thermal Insulation Coating; Quentin Van Overmeere Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Org Taps PARC to Develop Thermal Insulation Coating; Quentin Van Overmeere Comments

    PARC has been awarded a $3 million contract to develop a thermal-insulating window coating technology for an Energy Department program that aims to reduce the amount of heat loss in single-pane windows during cold weather. The Xerox company will assimilate a transparent aerogel polymer material to the window coating for thermal loss prevention as part […] More

  • A1 Signal Research to Support US Army’s Redstone Test Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A1 Signal Research to Support US Army’s Redstone Test Center

    A1 Signal Research has been awarded a 10-month, $29.9 million contract to help test  aviation, missile and sensor systems at the U.S. Army’s Redstone Test Center. ASRI will perform the testing and evaluation support for the Army’s environmental and component test directorate at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama through April 3, 2017, the Defense Department said […] More

  • NASA Sets Johnson Center Mission Systems Operations Draft RFP Timeline - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Sets Johnson Center Mission Systems Operations Draft RFP Timeline

    NASA has detailed its plans to seek industry feedback for a future contract to support mission systems operations at the space agency’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. The center is looking for sources to provide services for mission control center systems, training systems, space vehicle mockup facility and flight operations directorate mission systems environments, according to a presolicitation notice issued […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments

    Lockheed Martin has concluded the critical design review for two satellites intended to support television, internet, telephone and communications services in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Lockheed, Arab Satellite Communications Organization and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology reviewed the technical specifications of Arabsat 6A and Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, Lockheed said Tuesday. The two satellites are […] More