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Nichols Martin

a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, produces articles on the federal government's technology and business interests. The coverage of these articles include government contracting, cybersecurity, information technology, health care and national security.

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  • Charles River Analytics to Help Army Develop Game-Based Medical Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Army Develop Game-Based Medical Training Program

    The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics a 27-month, $1.1 million contract to develop requirements for a game-based program that would help train medical teams to perform high-intensity trauma treatment methods. Charles River said Monday it will collaborate with Medstar Health Research Institute, HandHeld Speech and John Broach, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Navy Christen 2nd America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Navy Christen 2nd America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries hosted a christening ceremony for the U.S. Navy‘s second America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli at a company facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lynne Mabus, ship sponsor and wife of former U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, broke a bottle of wine over the ship’s bow as part of christening tradition, Huntington Ingalls said Saturday. The 45,000-ton LHA […] More

  • New Age Protection to Help Manage DIA Access Control Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Age Protection to Help Manage DIA Access Control Program

    New Age Protection has won a potential $23.5 million contract to support management of a Defense Intellience Agency access control program. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also help DIA establish accountability measures for vehicle, personnel and equipment that enter and leave agency facilities. The Virginia Contracting Activity received five offers for the labor hour […] More

  • SOSi to Extend Training Support for US Air Forces in Africa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOSi to Extend Training Support for US Air Forces in Africa

    SOS International has received a task order under to continue to support integrated joint force field and live-fly training of U.S. air forces deployed to Africa. The task order falls under the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Advisory and Assistance III contract, SOSi said Friday. “SOSi has worked alongside the Air Force in support of NATO […] More

  • A. West to Update Electrical Systems at Sheppard AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A. West to Update Electrical Systems at Sheppard AF Base

    A. West Enterprise has won a two-year, $15 million contract to construct an underground power distribution system and update airfield lighting at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. The company said Friday it will design and build airlighting for the base’s four major runways, remove overhead electrical wires and repair circuit 1 system controls as the […] More

  • DISA Selects Vetegrity for Computer-Aided Drafting, Engineering Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Selects Vetegrity for Computer-Aided Drafting, Engineering Contract

    Vetegrity has won a potential five-year, $27 million contract to provide computer-aided drafting and engineering services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA received two proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will provide the guaranteed minimum value of $500,000 through issuance of subsequent task orders, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will perform work at DISA headquarters […] More

  • Navy Selects Charles River Analytics to Identify, Assess Bots on Social Media - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects Charles River Analytics to Identify, Assess Bots on Social Media

    Charles River Analytics has been awarded by the U.S. Navy a potential $2 million contract to perform analysis and identify “bots” on social media networks under an Office for Naval Research program. The Composable Hybrid Approach to Recognizing Bots and their Influence in Social Media Analysis or CHARISMA program aims to distinguish and assess risk, threats and vulnerabilities in social media […] More

  • BlackSky, NGA Partner on GEOINT Broker Platform Work for Air Force Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackSky, NGA Partner on GEOINT Broker Platform Work for Air Force Lab

    Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to develop a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory under a previously awarded $16.4 million contract. The GEOINT Broker Development Platform will utilize an agile development approach that works to enable users to continuously provide input to build the technology, Spaceflight announced Thursday. […] More

  • Irving Burton Associates to Support Army Health IT Research Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Burton Associates to Support Army Health IT Research Programs

    Irving Burton Associates has received a two-year, $11 million contract for research, management and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. IBA said Thursday it will deploy telehealth and mobile health managers, physicians and medics to support TATRC programs related to telehealth, medical simulation and robotics, unmanned systems, and mobile technology. USAMRMC […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility at the company’s Pike County Operations campus in Troy, Alabama, in a move to help drive workforce development initiatives in the state. The Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center is built to offer online education for more than 450 employees onsite and training services for local military and state agencies, Lockheed said Thursday. The Alabama […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Produce Wearable Shooter Detection Systems for Gulf Country

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has received a $10 million order to manufacture soldier wearable shooter detection systems for an unidentified Gulf country. BBN Technologies aims to deliver 2,000 Boomerang Warrior-X units to the customer over the next 12 months, Raytheon said Thursday. Boomerang is designed to help warfighters gain situational awareness of hostile fires or sniper attacks and provide […] More

  • Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Develops EW Self-Protection Tech Suite

    Saab has entered the final development phase for a new suite of electronic warfare self-protection systems in a move to expand the company’s EW portfolio. The company said Wednesday it will install one variant of the Arexis product on board the Gripen E/F fighter aircraft. Arexis is designed to feature ultra wideband digital receivers, digital radio frequency memory devices, interferometric direction […] More