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  • Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform

    The Indiana Department of Transportation has implemented an Avaya-built network and surveillance technology to monitor traffic flow on the state’s urban interstate highways. Avaya said Wednesday its Fabric Connect system works to provide round-the-clock video feeds from approximately 350 cameras in various locations and helps INDOT personnel to observe road incidents so they can immediately dispatch response teams. Fabric Connect replaced the department’s previous video […] More

  • VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has forged a five-year alliance with Flow Health to develop a medical knowledge graph that will incorporate deep learning to aid medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence systems on how to personalize care plans. The VA-Flow Health partnership aims to understand common elements that impact a person’s susceptibility to diseases as well as […] More

  • Army Taps TrellisWare to Develop Narrowband Mode for Soldier Radio Waveform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps TrellisWare to Develop Narrowband Mode for Soldier Radio Waveform

    TrellisWare Technologies has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a narrowband mode for the service branch’s Solider Radio Waveform. The company said Tuesday the SRW Narrowband capacity will be developed, field tested and prototyped on the Army ground tactical radios over a three-year period and will operate in VHF, UHF and reduced L-band. Rockwell Collins […] More

  • Orbital ATK Cygnus Concludes 6th Space Station Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Cygnus Concludes 6th Space Station Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK has concluded its sixth cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station which also marked the company’s return to flight operations at NASA‘s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The company said Monday the Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. Alan Poindexter, has completed its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere as part of the OA-5 mission. Cygnus arrived at the space station in […] More

  • Iridium to Hire Some Boeing Employees in Satellite Partnership Restructuring Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Hire Some Boeing Employees in Satellite Partnership Restructuring Effort

    Iridium will move to absorb the majority of Boeing‘s team of workers who provide operations and maintenance support to Iridium satellites beginning Jan. 3, 2017 as part of an insourcing agreement signed between the two companies. Both companies restructured their current partnership as Iridium prepares to launch and transition into the NEXT satellite broadband service, the satellite communications firm said Wednesday. Iridium will pay a […] More

  • CACI Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Network

    Amazon Web Services has included CACI International in a partner network that recognizes companies that utilize AWS practices to support missions of government, education and nonprofit customers. CACI said Wednesday it has been added to the AWS Public Sector Partner Program  because of the company’s efforts to deliver cloud-based platforms and services to clients with the use of AWS technology. The Arlington, […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure

    NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate has forged a public-private partnership with Orbital ATK to address the agency’s robotic and human exploration goals through the establishment of a commercial space infrastructure. Orbital ATK said Tuesday the Commercial Infrastructure for Robotic Assembly and Services project aims to update technologies for in-orbit manufacturing and assembly of space platforms. The company will […] More

  • Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program

    Leidos has begun operational testing of an autonomous demonstration vessel the company developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The company said Tuesday it commenced at-sea tests on Sea Hunter‘s autonomy system, sensors, mission control hardware and software off the coast of San Diego in California as a follow-on to performance trials conducted […] More

  • Enlighten IT Consulting to Continue Big Data Platform Development for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Enlighten IT Consulting to Continue Big Data Platform Development for DoD

    Enlighten IT Consulting has secured a $40 million task order from the U.S. federal government for continued work on a cloud-based architecture that offers storage and retrieval capacity at a rate of more than one trillion records per second. The company said Tuesday the Big Data Platform is designed to ingest and store data from various Defense Department sensors that will be […] More

  • Northrop Passes Two Milestones for Joint DARPA-ONR 'Tern' UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Passes Two Milestones for Joint DARPA-ONR ‘Tern’ UAS Program

    Northrop Grumman has passed two milestones for a joint program between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research that requires the company to develop an unmanned aerial system for multiple medium altitude, long endurance missions. Northrop said Monday the team oversees the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program has completed […] More

  • CAE Introduces New Image Generator Designed to Create Interoperable Synthetic Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Introduces New Image Generator Designed to Create Interoperable Synthetic Environments

    CAE has unveiled a new image generator at which uses commercial-off-the-shelf graphics processors to help create interoperable synthetic environments. The company said Monday CAE Medallion-6000XR was developed with the help of Open Geospatial Consortium CDB standards and builds on the family of image generators and visual systems designed for the military market. Montreal-based CAE displayed the platform at the […] More

  • NIH's NIAID Institute Seeks Strategic Planning, Analytical Support for Clinical Research Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH’s NIAID Institute Seeks Strategic Planning, Analytical Support for Clinical Research Division

    The National Institute of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued a sources sought notice to gather information on small businesses that can offer  support services to NIAID’s division of clinical research. NIAID DCR seeks contractor support in the administrative, analyses and reporting, management consulting, performance assessment, operational and resource planning areas, according to a notice posted Nov. […] More