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  • Compusearch Unveils General Availability of Reverse Auctions Tool on Prism Acquisition Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Compusearch Unveils General Availability of Reverse Auctions Tool on Prism Acquisition Platform

    Compusearch will offer its reverse auction technology to the Defense Department and civilian agency clients through the company’s Prism acquisition platform as part of the Reverse Auctions system’s full general availability. Compusearch said Tuesday the addition of the tool to the Prism platform follows a series of pilot programs at four federal agencies during the limited availability period for Reverse Auctions. […] More

  • NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant

    NeuroCog Trials has received a $2 million grant from the the National Institute of Mental Health to gather additional normative data and internationalize a functional capacity assessment tool. NeuroCog Trials said Thursday the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool was developed to serve as a platform to present a realistic and immersive environment to recreate routine activities of […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat 'Green' Propulsion System Maturity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat ‘Green’ Propulsion System Maturity

    NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to support the technology maturity of a CubeSat “green” propulsion system that works to boost maneuverability, safety and performance compared with systems using traditional hydrazine propellants. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the AF-M315E green propellant for the MPS-130 propulsion system serves to drive CubeSat and SmallSat development in terms of mission life extension, architecture resiliency and ability to perform proximity […] More

  • Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research

    The Energy Department‘s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded a $450,000 grant to Xinghang Zhang, a professor at Purdue University’s school of materials engineering, to support his three-year research project on the strength of aluminum. Purdue said Aug. 9 the “Deformation Mechanisms of Nanotwinned Aluminum and Binary Aluminum Alloys” project will use a transmission electron microscope to analyze the […] More

  • DISA Clears Airbus' Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Clears Airbus’ Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks

    An Airbus Group voice encryption technology has been added to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s list of approved products for deployment on Defense Department-run networks. Airbus said Thursday its ECTOCRYP Black device with R1.2.3 software offers voice communications security options not previously seen in legacy Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol systems. The platform is built with a common commercial-off-the-shelf hardware architecture that operators can program to accommodate new features […] More

  • Navy Tests & Deploys AeroVironment UAS With Recovery System Aboard Guided Missile Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests & Deploys AeroVironment UAS With Recovery System Aboard Guided Missile Destroyer

    The U.S. Navy has tested and deployed an AeroVironment-developed small unmanned aircraft with a precision recovery system the service branch envisions for use on a wide variety of vessels for rapid response reconnaissance operations. AeroVironment said Thursday the RQ-20B Puma AE system was tested aboard a Flight I guided missile destroyer along with its precision recovery system that can be managed and […] More

  • Prism Joins Mitre-Led Govt-Industry Aviation Safety Information-Sharing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prism Joins Mitre-Led Govt-Industry Aviation Safety Information-Sharing Program

    Prism has joined a Mitre-administered government-industry information-sharing program funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and will provide its Aviation Risk Management Online Resource to serve as a participating platform for aviation safety report submissions. Prism said Wednesday it will participate in the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program that serves to facilitate safety information exchanges and provide support resources for the aviation industry. “Every […] More

  • Lockheed's Advanced Technology Center Develops Microcryocooler for IR Sensing Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Advanced Technology Center Develops Microcryocooler for IR Sensing Applications

    Lockheed Martin‘s advanced technology center has built an ultra-compact cryocooler system to offer a quick-startup feature for infrared sensors used to support military operations. Lockheed said Wednesday its Fast Cool Down Microcryocooler is designed to quickly activate IR-sensing platforms utilized on space observation and weapons targeting missions. Jeffrey Olson, a research scientist at Lockheed’s advanced technology center, said the technology can help reduce the […] More

  • Clayton County Police Dept in Georgia to Deploy Utility Inc's Body Cameras - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Clayton County Police Dept in Georgia to Deploy Utility Inc’s Body Cameras

    The Clayton County Police Department in Georgia will use 200 Utility-developed body cameras with automatic recording and redaction functions in support of efforts to protect citizen and police officer privacy. Utility said Thursday the BodyWorn technology features policy-based auto-recording triggers, automatic redaction software, instant video playback and a real-time offloading function that sends videos to an Amazon Web Services cloud server. Michael […] More

  • Falcon Group Taps Smiths Detection to Supply Egypt Airport Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Falcon Group Taps Smiths Detection to Supply Egypt Airport Security Systems

    Smiths Detection has secured $24.8 million in contracts from Egyptian security company Falcon Group to provide advanced detection systems for installation at  airports across Egypt. Smiths Detection said Wednesday it will provide HI-SCAN 6040aTiX, HI-SCAN 6040-2is HR, HI-SCAN 100100T-2is, HI-SCAN 145180-2is and IONSCAN 600 platforms for Egyptian airport security personnel to detect explosives at passenger checkpoints. The contract also covers the provision of CIP-300 and […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class 'Indiana' Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class ‘Indiana’ Submarine

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary have completed the pressure hull construction phase of a submarine development project for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday the team has joined the hull sections of Indiana, the 16th Virginia-class submarine, to form a single watertight unit for the vessel scheduled for delivery to the Navy in the third quarter of 2017. “We […] More

  • IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a proposers’ day conference on Sept. 27 in Washington to brief interested organizations on a multilingual data collection system development program. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 1 it will discuss the objectives of the agency’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language  initiative and field questions […] More