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  • Space Force Tests Mitre-Made Satellite Tracking Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Force Tests Mitre-Made Satellite Tracking Software

    Mitre has developed a software suite that the U.S. Space Force is now testing for use in tracking satellites and space debris, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The nonprofit turned the Sensor Network Autonomous Resilient Extensible or SNARE over to Space Systems Command in July after a two-year phase of internal development. Mitre also presented a […] More

  • Austal USA CFO Rusty Murdaugh Promoted to President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA CFO Rusty Murdaugh Promoted to President

    Rusty Murdaugh, chief financial officer and interim president of Austal USA, has been promoted to full-time president at the Mobile, Alabama-based military shipbuilder. He led the company’s project to grow manufacturing operations by adding a steel shipbuilding process and its purchase of additional waterfront property on the Mobile River, Austal USA said Wednesday. The shipbuilder […] More

  • Carahsoft Named Public Sector Distributor of Code42 Insider Risk Management Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Named Public Sector Distributor of Code42 Insider Risk Management Platform

    Carahsoft Technology will distribute Code42’s insider risk management platform across the public sector through a range of existing contracts and agreements with federal, state and local governments. The software distributor said Tuesday it will make the Incydr platform available through its contracts with NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V program, the National Association of State […] More

  • Zscaler's Cloud-Based Zero Trust Offerings Achieve StateRAMP Ready Status; Stephen Kovac Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zscaler’s Cloud-Based Zero Trust Offerings Achieve StateRAMP Ready Status; Stephen Kovac Quoted

    Zscaler, a cloud-based software as a service security company, was included in the authorized vendor list of the new State Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday its Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Internet Access products have achieved “Ready” status under StateRAMP, which is partly modeled after FedRAMP and aims to standardize the […] More

  • Former DIA CIO Jack Gumtow Appointed as MetroStar's Customer Solutions VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DIA CIO Jack Gumtow Appointed as MetroStar’s Customer Solutions VP

    Jack Gumtow, formerly the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief information officer, has been named to serve as vice president of customer solutions at MetroStar. Gumtow brings 34 years of government and military experience and will support MetroStar’s work to meet the mission requirements of the intelligence community and other customers, the company said Tuesday. His career […] More

  • BAE Awarded $305M to Build Synthetic Training Platform for UK Typhoon Aircraft Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Awarded $305M to Build Synthetic Training Platform for UK Typhoon Aircraft Pilots

    BAE Systems has secured contracts worth more than $305 million to build an integrated synthetic environment where U.K. military pilots can train to operate the Typhoon multirole combat aircraft. The company said Monday it will lead a team composed of industrial and academic entities to provide 10 simulators along with training facilities to two British […] More

  • Military Vets John Abizaid, Robert Schmidle Join Epirus Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military Vets John Abizaid, Robert Schmidle Join Epirus Advisory Board

    Venture-backed defense technology startup Epirus has appointed military veterans John Abizaid and Robert Schmidle to the company’s advisory board. The appointments come as the company aims to address the Department of Defense’s need for technologies that counter unmanned aircraft system threats, Epirus said Monday. A West Point graduate, Abizaid spent 34 years at the U.S. […] More

  • Anduril Develop, Test Force Protection Tech for UK Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anduril Develop, Test Force Protection Tech for UK Military

    Anduril has secured a two-year, $5.2 million contract to help the U.K. government demonstrate base protection technology that uses artificial intelligence to detect threats across multiple domains. The company said Friday it will offer its technology to support the U.K.’s TALOS program, which aims to accelerate the country’s integrated command and control approach. The Anduril-made […] More

  • Energetics-Focused Naval Program Lists Various Munition Tech Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Energetics-Focused Naval Program Lists Various Munition Tech Requirements

    Naval Energetic Systems and Technologies, a public-private partnership between the U.S. Navy and the National Armaments Consortium, has posted a document listing solicited munition technologies including hypersonic weapons, Defense News reported Friday. The document contains 57 requirement statements, which officials say may equate to $100 million in solicitations. These required technologies include different kinds of […] More

  • NASA Funds Phase 2 Lunar Tech Projects of 5 Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Funds Phase 2 Lunar Tech Projects of 5 Small Businesses

    NASA has awarded a total of $20 million to five small businesses for the continued development of technologies meant to address environmental and risk-based challenges and deliver lunar capabilities in support of Artemis exploration missions. The phase two projects will tackle thermal resilience, thermal control, radiation-tolerant computing avionics, drive actuation and small satellite propulsion under […] More

  • Former IBM General Manager Al Zollar Named to GCOM Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IBM General Manager Al Zollar Named to GCOM Board of Directors

    Al Zollar, who worked at IBM for over three decades, brings years of experience as a software technology manager and investor to the board of directors of software company GCOM. Kamal Bherwani, CEO of GCOM, said in a statement published Thursday Zollar provide advice to help the management team expand the company’s software portfolio that […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Tenable Vulnerability Management Platform Across Public Sector; Bill Kurtz Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Tenable Vulnerability Management Platform Across Public Sector; Bill Kurtz Quoted

    Carahsoft now offers Tenable’s risk-based cybersecurity platform to government customers through its spot on the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract and other government acquisition vehicles. Carahsoft said Thursday it serves as a public sector distributor for Tenable’s Cyber Exposure Platform, which is designed to provide cyber oversight across an organization’s IT, operational […] More