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  • Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More

  • DHS S&T Seeks New Jamming Mitigation Tools, Methods; Sridhar Kowdley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS S&T Seeks New Jamming Mitigation Tools, Methods; Sridhar Kowdley Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate seeks partners from academia, industry and federally funded research-and-development centers that can provide anti-jamming technology systems that are ready for testing and evaluation. DHS said Tuesday it will hold the 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise at Idaho National Laboratory from July 17 to 22 next year […] More

  • Canada Requests Info on Software Platforms for Cyber Defense Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canada Requests Info on Software Platforms for Cyber Defense Project

    Canada’s public works and government services authority has issued a request for information on software systems to support a cyber defense project of the Canadian  department of national defense and armed forces. The Defensive Cyber Operations-Decision Support Project seeks to consult industry members on the availability of commercial cyber products that can aid the effort, according to a tender notice published […] More

  • Xerox's PARC Subsidiary Gets DOE Funds for Sensor Sticker Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox’s PARC Subsidiary Gets DOE Funds for Sensor Sticker Development

    Xerox subidiary PARC has received funds from the Energy Department‘s Building Technologies Office to develop wireless sensor stickers in an effort to help cut energy consumption in buildings, factories and cities. PARC’s “peel-and-stick” sensors are designed to help collect data about a building’s environment as well as support auto-locating, commissioning and automatic wall mapping operations, Xerox said Tuesday. “Distributed sensing enables richer […] More

  • Maximus Helps Tennessee Implement Electronic Medicaid Remittance Advice Delivery System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maximus Helps Tennessee Implement Electronic Medicaid Remittance Advice Delivery System

    Maximus has assisted Tennessee’s Division of Health Care Finance Administration in the implementation of a system to process electronic remittance advices for the state’s Medicaid program. The company said Tuesday HCFA will use the new system to electronically send information on Medicaid claims payments and adjustments to providers across the state. Tennessee’s HCFA-administered Medicaid program called TennCare will no longer […] More

  • SAIC-Root9B Partnership to Offer Cybersecurity Training, Simulation Environments in Govt Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC-Root9B Partnership to Offer Cybersecurity Training, Simulation Environments in Govt Sector

    Science Applications International Corp. and Root9B will collaborate to offer training and simulation environments intended to help government organizations prepare personnel to secure cyber operations. The alliance seeks to integrate SAIC’s Integrated Training Edge training platform and  Root9B’s DAEDALUS cyber range content into a modular training platform that will  support cyber force certification, SAIC said Tuesday. “This collaboration will enable operationally-focused teams to receive […] More

  • Orbital ATK-NASA Team Commences Launch of Five Scientific Balloon Flights to Collect Cosmic Ray Particle Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-NASA Team Commences Launch of Five Scientific Balloon Flights to Collect Cosmic Ray Particle Data

    Orbital ATK supported NASA‘s scientific balloon team in the launch of five scientific balloon flights that carried instruments and payloads developed to provide scientific data on cosmic ray particles and the life cycle of the interstellar medium. Orbital ATK said Monday the balloons launched as part of the NASA Antarctica Long Duration Balloon Flight Campaign and the five flights in […] More

  • ARDX to Help CMS' Efforts to Process Medicare Data; Angela Reddix Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARDX to Help CMS’ Efforts to Process Medicare Data; Angela Reddix Comments

    Norfolk, Virginia-based healthcare management company ARDX has received consolidated support services contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help the agency’s push to process Medicare data in an accurate and timely manner. ARDX said Monday the contract covers operational, technical and project management support services for the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug […] More

  • Rockwell Collins, Taqnia Aeronautics Ink Collaborative Agreement for Work on Fixed-Wing Avionics in Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, Taqnia Aeronautics Ink Collaborative Agreement for Work on Fixed-Wing Avionics in Saudi Arabia

    Rockwell Collins inked an agreement with Taqnia Aeronautics and the latter’s defense and security technology subsidiaries to collaborate on fixed-wing avionics and military rotary opportunities in Saudi Arabia. The partnership will cover work on aircraft assembled, manufactured and updated in Saudi Arabia and the team will look to open technology jobs in the country, Rockwell Collins […] More

  • CMS to Extend Use of McKesson InterQual Criteria for Medicare Auditing Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS to Extend Use of McKesson InterQual Criteria for Medicare Auditing Efforts

    McKesson‘s health solutions business has received a contract to continue to provide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services access to company-developed criteria for Medicare services auditing programs. InterQual Criteria works to help administrative law judges, Medicare fiscal intermediaries and administrative contractors, quality improvement organizations and CMS departments to make evidence-based clinical decisions and manage care, McKesson […] More

  • Polaris Industries to Deliver 78 DAGOR Combat Vehicles to Canada; John Olson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris Industries to Deliver 78 DAGOR Combat Vehicles to Canada; John Olson Comments

    Polaris Industries has received a $14.9 million contract from Canada’s government to deliver of fleet of 78 combat vehicles with a capacity to carry up to nine commandos, Ottawa Citizen reported Thursday. David Pugliese writes the contract will cover integrated logistics support and technical support services for including spare parts and driver training for the DAGOR […] More

  • Northrop Flies Hawkeye Aircraft Equipped With Aerial Refueling System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Flies Hawkeye Aircraft Equipped With Aerial Refueling System

    Northrop Grumman has conducted the first flight of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye  jet fitted with a new aerial refueling system that company designed to extend the aircraft’s mission time capacity. The company said Thursday the updated E-2D airborne early warning aircraft includes new electrical and lighting, endurance seats, probe and associated piping to support aerial refueling capacity as well […] More