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  • AWS Briefing Paper Highlights Potential of Cloud Tech to Address Urban Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Briefing Paper Highlights Potential of Cloud Tech to Address Urban Challenges

    The Amazon Web Services Institute has published a document that outlines the possible advantages of using cloud computing platforms and services to manage public services and infrastructure in urban locations. AWS said Monday the 15-page briefing paper, titled “How Technology Helps Cities Become Sustainable and Inclusive,” informs city leaders about how they can utilize cloud technology […] More

  • NASA Issues Sources Sought Notice for Earth Venture Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Sources Sought Notice for Earth Venture Mission

    NASA’s Langley Research Center is seeking potential partners in the development of a proposal that will help meet the requirements for the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program’s Earth Venture initiative. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the space agency will select firms that have experience in designing, manufacturing, testing and supporting small satellites. Potential partners […] More

  • ICF Vet Hal Chrisman to Join Acorn Growth Companies as Strategy Exec - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Vet Hal Chrisman to Join Acorn Growth Companies as Strategy Exec

    Acorn Growth Companies has appointed Hal Chrisman, formerly a vice president of ICF, to serve as an executive in charge of the private equity firm’s acquisition strategies. His appointment is effective Nov. 1 and he will bring more than three decades of aerospace and defense market experience to his new position, Acorn said Monday. He […] More

  • AWS Highlights Efforts in Law Enforcement, Health, Disaster Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Highlights Efforts in Law Enforcement, Health, Disaster Response

    Amazon Web Services, which provides various organizations and companies with data management and cloud products and services, has detailed some of its efforts to help modernize law enforcement and disaster response operations. The company said in a blog entry posted Friday that its Amazon Rekognition application program interface allows nonprofit Thorn and Marinus Analytics to […] More

  • Air Force Meets With SpaceX to Discuss Potential Space Cargo Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Meets With SpaceX to Discuss Potential Space Cargo Operations

    Gen. Maryanne Miller, commander of the Air Mobility Command, has disclosed that the U.S. Air Force has met with SpaceX to discuss the possibility of conducting space-based cargo delivery operations, Defense News reported Saturday. The Air Force is considering using SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket reusable launch vehicle, which is still under development, for cargo services […] More

  • Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing, Air Force Coordinate in Final Certification Work for KC-46 Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing, Air Force Coordinate in Final Certification Work for KC-46 Tanker

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has said the company is coordinating with the U.S. Air Force to secure the final delivery requirements for the KC-46 Pegasus aircraft, Defense News reported Saturday. Muilenburg said during a third-quarter earnings call that Boeing continuously works toward the final certification of the refueling and transport tanker to meet its delivery […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Assessment of new Aegis Combat System Functions for Missile Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Assessment of new Aegis Combat System Functions for Missile Defense

    Lockheed Martin’s latest Aegis Combat System has demonstrated in a Missile Defense Agency-led test its new capabilities to identify and launch a missile to deter a medium range ballistic missile threat. The Flight Test Standard Missile-45 program provided the company an opportunity to showcase the new functions of Aegis Baseline 9.C2 or BMD 5.1 for […] More

  • NASA Completes ASPIRE Experiments, Selects Mars Mission Parachute - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Completes ASPIRE Experiments, Selects Mars Mission Parachute

    NASA has certified the use of a 180-pound parachute for its Mars 2020 mission after completing a series of tests under the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment program. Using mission planning, engineering and field operations services from Northrop Grumman, JPL tested two different parachutes and selected the one used for the third and final […] More

  • CA Technologies Study Cites Automation as Driver of Business Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Study Cites Automation as Driver of Business Growth

    A CA Technologies-sponsored study has found that 98 percent of organizations are using automated systems to drive growth in their businesses and complete strategic tasks. The Enterprise Management Associates-led report named “The State of Automation” unveiled that the retail industry showed the highest level of maturity in adopting automation at 70 percent, followed by the […] More

  • Northrop Receives Aviation Week Program Excellence Award for Virtual Mission Planning Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Aviation Week Program Excellence Award for Virtual Mission Planning Software

    Northrop Grumman has won the Aviation Week Program Excellence Award under the supplier aftermarket category for its software program designed to support the U.S. Air Force’s contingency and crisis action planning operations. The company said Thursday over 300 program management representatives from the public and private sectors selected the Global Adaptive Planning Collaborative Information Environment […] More

  • Navy Plans to Deploy Raytheon-Kongsberg Anti-Ship Missile in Late 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans to Deploy Raytheon-Kongsberg Anti-Ship Missile in Late 2019

    The U.S. Navy will possibly debut in mid- to late 2019 a new over-the-horizon anti-ship missile jointly developed by Raytheon and Kongsberg Gruppen, Defense News reported Thursday. Lockheed Martin will be in charge of installing the Naval Strike Missile on the service’s fourth Freedom-class littoral combat ship called USS Detroit or LCS-7, as well as […] More

  • Federal Acquisition Service Solicits Comments on DEOS Cloud Computing Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal Acquisition Service Solicits Comments on DEOS Cloud Computing Project

    The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service seeks industry feedback on a potential $8B cloud computing project that aims to unify networks and data centers across the Defense Department. The request for information solicits public comment on enterprise hardware, software licenses, and deployment and sustainment services covered in the first capability set of the Defense […] More