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  • Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military Health System to Adopt McKesson Clinical Decision Support Tool

    McKesson has been selected to deploy its evidence-based clinical decision support tool at military hospitals and clinics worldwide for the Military Health System. The Military Health System selected McKesson’s InterQual system to complement its military treatment facilities’ clinical judgment tool, McKesson said Thursday. The InterQual incorporates peer reviews from clinical experts across the U.S. McKesson […] More

  • Germany Shortlists Boeing Chinook, Sikorsky King Stallion for Helicopter Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Germany Shortlists Boeing Chinook, Sikorsky King Stallion for Helicopter Purchase

    Germany has narrowed its choices for the country’s next helicopters to the Boeing Chinook and Sikorsky King Stallion with the selection lined up to succeed the latter company’s Sea Stallion, Defense News reported Sunday. Lars Hoffman writes Germany’s air force plans to make a selection by the end of 2016, according to the report. The country’s defense ministry released a military aviation strategy […] More

  • General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line

    General Atomics has received a $34 million order to develop and deploy a new software line for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will field the MQ-9 medium-altitude long-endurance tactical lead-off hitter software line under the basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department […] More

  • Sotera Lands DARPA Counter-Insurgency Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sotera Lands DARPA Counter-Insurgency Research Contract

    Sotera has received an $11.4 million contract to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s research and development counter-insurgency operations program. The company will perform work in Virginia and Texas through Jan. 20, 2019, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Army Contracting Command received one bid for the contract via […] More

  • Bill Rowan: VMware Aims to Help Agencies Unlock IT Reserve Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Rowan: VMware Aims to Help Agencies Unlock IT Reserve Capacity

    Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said the company plans to collaborate with agencies that want to automate processes and manage resources in their push to unlock the “full potential” of information technology services. Rowan wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday that IT tools must not be viewed as disparate systems […] More

  • L-3 to Build Navy Electromagnetic Railgun Energy Storage Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Build Navy Electromagnetic Railgun Energy Storage Tech

    L-3 Communications has been awarded a $7.1 million contract modification to produce energy storage technologies for the U.S. Navy’s planned electromagnetic railgun, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes L-3 will build four containerized battery energy storage and charging systems for the railgun pulsed power system in San Diego and San Leandro, California […] More

  • ICF Lands European Commission Event Mgmt Contract; Tobias Schafer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands European Commission Event Mgmt Contract; Tobias Schafer Comments

    ICF International has been awarded a four-year, $15 million contract to provide event management services for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy. ICF will organize DG REGIO events such as the next series of Open Days institutional events in Brussels, where European Union, national, regional and local leaders and fund managers and final […] More

  • Force 3 to Install VMware Products for Census Bureau Data Collection; Mike Greaney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force 3 to Install VMware Products for Census Bureau Data Collection; Mike Greaney Comments

    Force 3 has been awarded an $18 million blanket purchase agreement to provide VMware products for the U.S. Census Bureau’s data collection process. The Census Bureau currently explores ways to automate and update its data gathering practices with the use of websites in mobile platforms and diverse languages and an electronic data entry for field workers, […] More

  • NCI Lands Air Force Research Lab IT Subcontract; Brian Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Lands Air Force Research Lab IT Subcontract; Brian Clark Comments

    NCI has been awarded a $9 million contract with CDO Technologies to extend the company’s information technology support for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory site in Rome, New York. NCI will work to engineer communications and computer core services, develop applications and test the cyber research network under the contract, the company said Wednesday. The contract […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Orbital ATK Alternative Warhead for Army Rocket System; Pat Nolan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Orbital ATK Alternative Warhead for Army Rocket System; Pat Nolan Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a $14 million contract from Lockheed Martin to build alternative warheads for the U.S. Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. Orbital ATK recently tested the warheads with lethality enhanced ordnance technology to Army standards for area effects and the design met the GMLRS requirements, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. “We are very […] More

  • Iris ID Provides Biometrics Tech for CBP Pilot; Charles Koo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iris ID Provides Biometrics Tech for CBP Pilot; Charles Koo Comments

    Iris ID has deployed the company’s iris biometric technology for a Customs and Border Protection pilot intended to help identify non-U.S. citizens who pass through the U.S.-Mexico border, Planet Biometrics reported Wednesday. Iris ID installed six kiosks equipped with iCAM D1000 iris-face capture systems at the Otay Mesa port of entry in Southern California in order […] More

  • GrammaTech to Develop DARPA Software Assurance Assessment Tools; Eric Schulte Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GrammaTech to Develop DARPA Software Assurance Assessment Tools; Eric Schulte Comments

    GrammaTech has been selected to develop a software assurance assessment system for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in an effort to help software users determine the effectiveness of their tools. Under the Grafting Vulnerabilities for Configurable Cyber Defense project, GrammaTech’s research intends to create benchmarks for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of software tools, […] More