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  • CTC, Sciaky Form Metal Additive Manufacturing Partnership; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC, Sciaky Form Metal Additive Manufacturing Partnership; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has partnered with a Phillips Service Industries subsidiary to help customers develop and engineer metallic structures through the use of a three-dimensional printing technology. CTC said Tuesday it will offer Sciaky‘s Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing  technology in efforts to address a demand for large-scale 3D-printed metal components. EBAM is designed to process nickel, tantalum and titanium-based alloys used […] More

  • Bruce Caswell: Maximus Eyes Federal IT Support Expansion via Alliant 2 Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bruce Caswell: Maximus Eyes Federal IT Support Expansion via Alliant 2 Vehicle

    Bruce Caswell, president and CEO of Maximus, has said the company aims to broaden support for federal information technology, citizen service and mission objectives through the General Services Administration‘s potential $50 billion Alliant 2 procurement vehicle. GSA awarded 61 spots on the unrestricted portion of the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. Maximus plans to use its business process approaches and previous federal […] More

  • Thomas Afferton: Northrop to Help Update State Department's Consular Systems Under $850M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Afferton: Northrop to Help Update State Department’s Consular Systems Under $850M IDIQ

    Thomas Afferton, vice president of civil solutions at Northrop Grumman, has said the company will help update legacy systems at the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs through a potential 10-year, $850 million contract. “We look forward to drawing on our deep experience in modernizing systems for defense, intel and civilian customers and applying our unique tools […] More

  • Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain

    Booz Allen Hamilton has developed a platform to help the Food and Drug Administration‘s Office of Translational Sciences explore healthcare blockchain technology, GCN reported Friday. The platform is built on the InterPlanetary File System for encryption and reduced data duplication purposes, and uses Ethereum for data access management on private networks, the report said. Lauren Neal, a […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Microrobotics Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Microrobotics Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on July 17 in Arlington, Va., to solicit vendors for the development of insect-scale robotic platforms. Registration for the Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms Proposers Day will run through July 13, DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday. The SHRIMP program will include three 12-month […] More

  • Booz Allen Uses Machine Learning Tools to Help Soldiers Analyze Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Uses Machine Learning Tools to Help Soldiers Analyze Data

    Booz Allen Hamilton works with soldiers to help them collect data and analyze combat indicators with the use of artificial intelligence technology, Nvidia reported Saturday. Aaron Sant-Miller, lead data scientist at Booz Allen, said in an interview that aired on Nvidia’s AI Podcast the company’s analysts receive overhead video feeds and fuse intelligence for military personnel to manage a […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Built 'Echo Voyager' AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Built ‘Echo Voyager’ AUV Undergoes 2nd Round of Tests

    Boeing has conducted a second round of at-sea tests for an autonomous vehicle the company built in pursuit of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone program, Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The service branch awarded separate contracts to a Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Industries team and Lockheed Martin to conduct design efforts under the first phase of the Orca Extra Large Unmanned […] More

  • Valimail: Government Contracting Industry Adopting Digital Communications Security Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Valimail: Government Contracting Industry Adopting Digital Communications Security Standards

    A Valimail report noted that the government contracting industry has started to adopt cybersecurity requirements that federal agencies implement internally. The email authentication company said Thursday the report resulted from its evaluation of the industry-standard Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance system in the available primary domains from the largest 100 government suppliers for fiscal year 2017. […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI to Continue Federal IT Operations Support Through Alliant 2 GWAC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI to Continue Federal IT Operations Support Through Alliant 2 GWAC

    CACI International plans to offer a range of information technology services to the federal government through the Arlington, Va.-based contractor’s position on the potential 10-year, $50 billion Alliant 2 contract vehicle the General Services Administration awarded in November 2017. The company said Thursday it aims to support customer agencies in the IT operations and maintenance, cybersecurity, cloud […] More

  • Mitre Ranks on Computerworld's Top 100 List of IT Work Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Ranks on Computerworld’s Top 100 List of IT Work Environments

    Mitre placed 51st among 59 in the large organizations category of Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology list for 2018. The list describes large organizations as those with at least 5,000 U.S. employees. The company said Monday it has been named to the list nine times, the most recent being 2016. Joel […] More

  • Sallyport Gets Army Technical Services Subcontract; Victor Esposito Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sallyport Gets Army Technical Services Subcontract; Victor Esposito Comments

    AECOM has awarded Sallyport Global Holdings a potential two-year, $34 million subcontract to provide technical services to the Army Corps of Engineers’ projects within the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility. Sallyport said Wednesday it will provide electrical and fire safety technical services as well as training support across CENTCOM AOR, except in Afghanistan. Victor Esposito, CEO of […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell 'VMware Cloud on AWS' Service to Govt Market; Craig Abod Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Resell ‘VMware Cloud on AWS’ Service to Govt Market; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has received a public sector solution provider designation from Amazon Web Services and agreed to offer a hybrid cloud service from an AWS-VMware partnership to government agencies. The VMware Cloud on AWS offering is designed to help customers run information technology applications on a vSphere-based cloud environment, Carahsoft said Wednesday. Carahsoft President Craig Abod, a 2018 Wash100 […] More