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  • SkyePoint Appoints Manohar Kumar, Durriya Badani to Management Positions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SkyePoint Appoints Manohar Kumar, Durriya Badani to Management Positions

    SkyePoint Decisions has named Manohar Kumar and Durriya Badani as the company’s senior vice president of operations and vice president of strategic accounts, respectively. In a statement Tuesday, SkyePoint President Heather Conigliaro welcomed the new appointees and said, “Manohar’s proven delivery success and Durriya’s ability to build strategic relationships will be invaluable as we continue to expand […] More

  • Geoffrey Schaefer Named AI Strategy & Governance VP at Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Geoffrey Schaefer Named AI Strategy & Governance VP at Leidos

    Geoffrey Schaefer, former head of responsible artificial intelligence and chief AI ethics adviser at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Leidos as vice president of AI strategy and governance. In a post on LinkedIn Tuesday, Schaefer said, “I could not be more excited for this opportunity. I remain – more than ever – an AI optimist. The potential of […] More

  • BAE Receives Army Contract to Boost Combat Vehicle EW Defenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives Army Contract to Boost Combat Vehicle EW Defenses

    BAE Systems has secured a follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to enhance the electronic warfare capabilities of its combat vehicle protection systems to bolster vehicle survivability against guided missiles and nearby threats. The company said Tuesday the contract calls for developing its Multi-Class Soft Kill System countermeasures such as advancing its Stormcrow and Terra Raven […] More

  • State Department OKs Potential $70M Sale of Tactical Combat Training Systems to UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs Potential $70M Sale of Tactical Combat Training Systems to UK

    The State Department has approved the U.K. government’s request to purchase 46 Tactical Combat Training System Increment II units under a $70 million foreign military sales agreement. The FMS package includes containers, testing support, spare parts, documentation, training, engineering, logistics services and related program support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday.   TCTS II delivers realistic […] More

  • Databricks Analytics Platform Receives DOD IL5 Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Databricks Analytics Platform Receives DOD IL5 Provisional Authorization

    Databricks has received Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization from the Department of Defense for its artificial intelligence-based data intelligence platform. The designation enables the DOD, the agency’s mission partners and other federal agencies to use the platform to securely handle unclassified information, the data analytics company said Monday. Built on a lakehouse foundation, the Databricks Data […] More

  • Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for NextLabs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for NextLabs

    Carahsoft Technology and NextLabs have partnered to bring the latter’s zero trust architecture and data-centric security products to government agencies. Carahsoft said Thursday that under the partnership, it will serve as NextLab’s master government aggregator. NextLabs’ patented dynamic authorization technology and attribute-based zero trust policy platform were designed to identify and protect sensitive data, control access […] More

  • Raytheon Books Army Contract to Develop Wireless Power Beaming Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Books Army Contract to Develop Wireless Power Beaming Technology

    Raytheon, an RTX business, has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to develop advanced wireless power transmitter and receiver technologies to enable long-range demonstrations for the service branch’s manned and unmanned systems. The company said Thursday it will focus on developing directed energy wireless power beaming systems to deliver battlefield power, streamline logistics and enhance troop […] More

  • ECS, NSA Partner Bolster Cybersecurity of DIB Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS, NSA Partner Bolster Cybersecurity of DIB Customers

    ECS, an ASGN division, and the National Security Agency have partnered to bolster capabilities against advanced cyber threats targeting crucial defense systems. Under the collaboration, ECS said Thursday that it will integrate the NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center’s threat intelligence collaboration service into its cybersecurity operations to enhance the security of its customers within the U.S. defense industrial […] More

  • Blackbird.AI, Databricks to Advance Narrative Intelligence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blackbird.AI, Databricks to Advance Narrative Intelligence

    Blackbird.AI and Databricks have entered into a partnership to protect the finances and reputations of organizations from narrative attacks and information manipulation by developing artificial intelligence-based narrative intelligence capabilities. Carahsoft Technology, Blackbird.AI’s public sector distributor and Databricks’ master government aggregator, said Wednesday that the partnership will leverage the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to strengthen Blackbird.AI’s ability to […] More

  • Appian Books Forge Subcontract to Enhance Army FMS Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Appian Books Forge Subcontract to Enhance Army FMS Tracking System

    Appian has received a subcontract to provide consulting firm Forge Group with its low-code process automation platform in support of Forge’s Foreign Military Sales Army Case Execution System production delivery contract award from the U.S. Army. The subcontractor said on Oct. 30 that its platform will be used to develop the FMS-ACES application to upgrade the military […] More

  • SMX Opens New Facility in North Carolina - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SMX Opens New Facility in North Carolina

    SMX has opened a new facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to enhance technology access and promote collaboration among the defense and industry communities surrounding the military bases of Fort Liberty and Pope Army Airfield. The company said Tuesday the site includes on-site 24/7 IT and facility security officer support that is enhanced with a dual internet […] More

  • Carahsoft, Summit 7 Enter Into Referral Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, Summit 7 Enter Into Referral Partnership

    Carahsoft Technology will offer Summit 7’s cybersecurity and advanced cloud services to its government clients and resellers under a referral partnership agreement. The services will provide the Carahsoft network with tools and knowledge designed to secure sensitive information and meet Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification compliance, Summit 7 said Tuesday. The offerings are available across multiple secure environments […] More