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  • IBM, VA Extend AI-Based Cancer Treatment Identification Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, VA Extend AI-Based Cancer Treatment Identification Partnership

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has extended a partnership with IBM to identify treatment options for military veterans with cancer through the use of artificial intelligence technology. IBM said Thursday VA oncologists have used the company’s Watson for Genomics system to support precision oncology care programs under a public-private initiative formed in 2016. “It is incredibly challenging to read, understand and […] More

  • Chromalloy to Refurbish Navy Warship Turbine Engine Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chromalloy to Refurbish Navy Warship Turbine Engine Parts

    The U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division, has selected Chromalloy to refresh components of propulsion gas turbines in surface combatant ships. Chromalloy will refurbish LM2500 hot-section kits that the Naval Air Systems Command intends to use for the modernization of the marine gas turbines, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday. The contract allows the service branch to provide refurbished […] More

  • Louis Berger Contracted to Rehabilitate Historic Sites at Gettysburg National Military Park - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger Contracted to Rehabilitate Historic Sites at Gettysburg National Military Park

    Louis Berger has been chosen to conduct rehabilitation work at two historic sites within the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania for the National Park Service. The company said Thursday it will serve as a subcontractor to both DHM Design for the project at Little Round Top and to Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering, which will […] More

  • Veritas Technologies, GSA Reach Governmentwide Procurement Deal for Cloud, Data Mgmt Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Technologies, GSA Reach Governmentwide Procurement Deal for Cloud, Data Mgmt Platforms

    Veritas Technologies has reached an agreement with the General Services Administration to help federal clients implement enterprise software products designed to support cloud management and data governance efforts. GSA said Tuesday government buyers can buy Veritas-made software platforms to manage and secure agencies’ data through the new enterprise software acquisition deal. Both parties negotiated the contract as part of […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Harris for Audio Communications Tech for NASA Manned Space Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Harris for Audio Communications Tech for NASA Manned Space Mission

    Harris will deliver a spacecraft audio communications system as a subcontractor of Lockheed Martin for a manned NASA deep-space mission slated for launch by 2022. The audio and speaker system for the Orion spacecraft will support Exploration Mission-2 operations and will facilitate communications between astronauts and NASA, Harris said Tuesday. Murali Krishnan, vice president and general manager […] More

  • Unisys to Help Navy Develop Tactical Messaging Platform; Andrew Boyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Help Navy Develop Tactical Messaging Platform; Andrew Boyd Comments

    Unisys has received a potential five-year, $20 million contract to develop a tactical messaging system for the U.S. Navy‘s telecommunications stations and computers. The contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command covers software development, operations and management support for the Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Navy Modernized Hybrid Solution, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • SES Government Solutions' Paul Damphousse Named FAA Space Transport Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Government Solutions’ Paul Damphousse Named FAA Space Transport Adviser

    Paul Damphousse, senior director of business development at SES‘ government solutions subsidiary, has joined the commercial space transportation advisory committee of the  Federal Aviation Administration. Elaine Chao, secretary of the Transportation Department, appointed Damphousse as COMSTAC’s senior industry representative and member to provide counsel to the government, SES said Wednesday. Damphousse said he will update the U.S. […] More

  • AT&T to Compete for Federal IT Support Orders via Alliant 2 Contract; Xavier Williams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Compete for Federal IT Support Orders via Alliant 2 Contract; Xavier Williams Comments

    AT&T can vie for task orders to provide information technology services to federal clients through a potential 10-year, $50 billion contract vehicle managed by the General Services Administration. “Alliant 2 presents a key opportunity for federal agencies to take a network-first approach to IT system modernization,” Xavier Williams, president of global public sector and wholesale solutions at […] More

  • L3-Air Tractor Partnership Offers ISR Aircraft Compatibility With BAE Sensor Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3-Air Tractor Partnership Offers ISR Aircraft Compatibility With BAE Sensor Tech

    Air Tractor and L3 Technologies have updated a joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and light strike aircraft offering to support compatibility with a suite of BAE System-built sensors. The AT-802L Longsword platform can now accommodate BAE’s COBRA signals intelligence and electronic warfare sensor technologies on a wing station pod or in an inboard system, L3 said Monday. BAE designed COBRA […] More

  • BGOV: USACE Eyes Construction Service Providers for Potential $2B DHS Border Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BGOV: USACE Eyes Construction Service Providers for Potential $2B DHS Border Program

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday a prequalification of sources for the Department of Homeland Security‘s prospective $1.8 billion Border Infrastructure Program, Bloomberg Government reported Monday. Potential projects under the USACE solicitation can cover border fencing, gates and lights; access and patrol roads; drainage and miscellaneous modifications; levee walls and other alterations and repairs, the […] More

  • General Atomics Updates Remotely Piloted Aircraft Receivers for European Satellite Constellation Navigation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Updates Remotely Piloted Aircraft Receivers for European Satellite Constellation Navigation

    A General Atomics business has added a provision to the navigation receiver of a baseline remotely piloted aircraft to support connections with the European Union and the European Space Agency’s Galileo satellite constellation. The baseline MQ-9B initially used a triplex navigation platform compatible with the U.S. global positioning system and was updated to allow constellation […] More

  • Marines Employ Raytheon's Approach, Landing Guidance System for Initial Aircraft Carrier Operation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marines Employ Raytheon’s Approach, Landing Guidance System for Initial Aircraft Carrier Operation

    The U.S. Marine Corps sampled a Raytheon-built approach and landing guidance system for the deployment of fighter jets from an amphibious assault ship in the Pacific. The service branch guided its F-35B Lightning II aircraft onto the USS Wasp through the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, the company […] More