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ECS, Elastic Forge Open Source Tech Partnership; George Wilson Quoted
ASGN’s ECS business has teamed up with search company Elastic to leverage the latter’s open-source technologies and software-as-a-service offerings to build up the speed and security posture of its big data platforms. ECS said Wednesday it will use Elastic’s technology platform to advance machine learning and build up reporting and monitoring in support of defense, federal civilian and commercial clients.
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Michele Evans: Lockheed Eyes Reduced Purchase Price, Maintenance Cost for F-35 Program
Michele Evans, who assumed the role of executive vice president for Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business area in October 2018, has discussed the company’s efforts to reduce the price of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft and other plans for the fighter jet program, the Dallas Business Journal reported Wednesday. Lockheed plans to lower the price of the F-35A variant to $80M by 2020, according to the report.
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Report: Partial Gov’t Shutdown Freezes Contract Obligations
The ongoing partial shutdown of federal agencies could cost $245M in delayed or lost revenue for contracting firms per day, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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USAF Sources for Information on Architect-Engineer Services
The U.S. Air Force is seeking market information regarding construction services as the branch plans to award potential architect-engineer contracts cumulatively valued at $1B over five years. The sought services will support USAF's multibillion-dollar construction program, which would run over the next several years, the branch said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice.
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Microsoft to Include Automated Breach Analysis Tool in Gov’t, Top-End Office Bundles
Microsoft plans to add the Auto-Investigation with Threat Playbooks feature to two of its Office productivity suite bundles: Office 365 Enterprise E5 and, potentially, Office 365 Government GCC.
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Air Force Posts Solicitation for DevOps PaaS Platform
The U.S. Air Force's AFWERX organization seeks a platform-as-a-service offering that can help Joint Force Space Component Commander-led operations centers to  process data sources for space situational awareness efforts and implement systems to aid space command-and-control mission.Â
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Envistacom to Help Update Army Tactical Satcom Terminal
Envistacom has received subcontract from Consortium Management Group to develop prototypes of an updated tactical satellite communications terminal for the U.S. Army under an other transaction agreement.
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Booz Allen Vet Stefanie Lehmann Named Atlas Research VP
Stefanie Lehmann, formerly a principal and director at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Atlas Research as a vice president. She will oversee the development and implementation of strategies to drive business growth in terms of revenue and business efficiency, Atlas said Monday.
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Execs Talk Satcom Industry Trends at Kratos Conference; Phil Carrai Quoted
Industry executives at the 2018 Kratos Global Users Conference discussed some of the trends in the satellite telecommunications sector and cited the need for companies to adapt to such trends to thrive, Via Satellite reported Monday. Some of the trends discussed include the drop in bandwidth prices and commoditization of satellite hardware.