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  • Transcom Seeks Industry or Academia Partners for Cloud Migration Research Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transcom Seeks Industry or Academia Partners for Cloud Migration Research Initiative

    The U.S. Transportation Command seeks partners from the academic and commercial sectors to study the cloud migration process through cooperative research and development agreements. A notice posted Nov. 16 on FedBizOpps stated the studies will utilize the Global Air Tranportation Execution System‘s information technology architecture as a baseline case to examine risks and migrate an existing government system to a […] More

  • Embraer, Saab Unveil New Technology Devt Hub in Brazil; Hakan Buskhe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Embraer, Saab Unveil New Technology Devt Hub in Brazil; Hakan Buskhe Comments

    Saab and Embraer have introduced a new hub for technology development in Brazil with domestic partner industries and institutions that include AEL Sistemas, Atech, Akaer and the country’s air force. Embraer said Tuesday the Gripen Design and Development Network in Sao Paulo will cover the development environment and simulators necessary to perform fighter development work as […] More

  • MARCO to Continue Support for DARPA's Multi-University Research Network Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MARCO to Continue Support for DARPA’s Multi-University Research Network Devt Program

    Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp. has secured a $15.5 million contract modification to continue to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency establish a network of multi-university research centers in the U.S. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification covers the fifth year of  MARCO’s support for DARPA’s Focus Center Research Program-Semiconductor Technology Advanced Research Network. DARPA will obligate $7.7 million in fiscal 2016 […] More

  • BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integrated technology solutions business has won a three-year, $9.1 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force create an analysis tool to image minimum size circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will develop the tool as part of the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging NanoElectrons […] More

  • Cubic to Update Maryland Transit Administration's Automatic Fare Collection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Update Maryland Transit Administration’s Automatic Fare Collection System

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has received a $4.8 million contract modification from the Maryland Transit Administration to update the agency’s automatic fare collection system and set the foundation for new system features. The company said Tuesday the updated system will work to help MTA accept mobile payments and implement a new customer web portal and integration path with third-party transport services. “The new […] More

  • IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK

    IBM will add four new cloud data centers that possess cognitive intelligence capacities in the U.K. to meet a growing client demand. IBM said Monday the new facilities will triple the U.K.’s cloud center capacity as well as support the company’s commitment to deliver new products and services to the country’s market. The new facilities will provide users […] More

  • Deloitte's Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs

    Deloitte plans to expand the professional services firm’s U.S. Technology Delivery Center in Orlando, Florida and hire additional software development, system analysis and information technology workers as part of the expansion initiative, the Orlando Economic Development Commission reported Thursday. Laureen Martinez writes Deloitte has partnered with the City of Lake Mary, CareerSource Central Florida and the Orlando Economic […] More

  • Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments

    Echodyne has completed an airborne test of a detect-and-avoid radar technology mounted on a commercial small unmanned aerial vehicle. The company said Nov. 8 its radar is designed to help UAVs sense moving and stationary obstacles with radar vision when drones fly through the airspace beyond the operator’s line of sight. The tests were conducted using Echodyne’s patented Metamaterial Electronically Scanning […] More

  • Fitch Ratings: Govt Reimbursements Can Help Address Contractors' Cash Flow Worries From Pension Liabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fitch Ratings: Govt Reimbursements Can Help Address Contractors’ Cash Flow Worries From Pension Liabilities

    Fitch Ratings has said U.S. government reimbursements and lower funding requirements can help mitigate cash flow impacts to defense contractors over the next three-to-four years as the companies face large underfunded pension liabilities. Changes to accounting rules enacted in 2012 will continue to impact interest rates used to calculate pension benefit obligations discount rates and will also affect reimbursements through 2017, […] More

  • Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract

    The Washington-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has secured a potential five-year, $34 million contract from NASA to conduct studies within the domain of the space agency’s science and technology programs. NASA said Saturday the Space Studies Board indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers research designed to address various questions regarding space science, Earth science, biological and physical […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility

    ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the national environmental satellite, data and information service division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for systems engineering support to NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Alaska. The company said Thursday its federal technical services subsidiary will perform the work under the NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station […] More