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  • Cerner Forms Industry Team for VA Electronic Health Care Record Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cerner Forms Industry Team for VA Electronic Health Care Record Modernization Effort

    Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the team […] More

  • James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments

    James Hanson, formerly managing director at marketing communications firm ConnellyWorks, has joined Nextgov as first publisher, the publication reported Monday. He will oversee business development, client relations and product planning for the GovCon community through the publication’s Washington, D.C.-based office. Hanson is “a master at helping government contractors connect with federal decision makers, and Nextgov […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts

    NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe subsidiary, Planet and Spire received the sole-source contracts under the agency’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, NASA said Friday. “This pilot program is […] More

  • Perduco Group, Discovery Machine Receive GSA SBIR Phase III Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perduco Group, Discovery Machine Receive GSA SBIR Phase III Contracts

    The General Services Administration has awarded separate Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contracts to The Perduco Group and Discovery Machine to support the efforts of two different U.S. Air Force organizations. Under a $150M procurement vehicle, The Perduco Group will assist the service’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office in developing an infrastructure roadmap […] More

  • Novetta Continues Board Expansion With Joe Logue - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Novetta Continues Board Expansion With Joe Logue

    Joe Logue, previously a Booz Allen Hamilton executive vice president and senior partner, has joined Novetta‘s board of directors, the McLean, Va., company announced Thursday. “Joe Logue is an industry leader respected for his commitment to customer mission success,” commented Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta. “His addition to the Novetta board of directors […] More

  • Cyber Training Demands Specific Approach; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyber Training Demands Specific Approach; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted

    Employees continue to click on malicious links amid government agencies’ efforts to launch training programs and assessments as part of their cyber defense strategies, Government Technology magazine reported. A study by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association shows that 34 percent of cyber breaches are associated with negligence or human error. The report said […] More

  • SES Unveils Satellite-Based Connectivity Service for IBM Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Unveils Satellite-Based Connectivity Service for IBM Cloud Platform

    SES Networks has partnered with IBM to help customers connect to a cloud computing platform from anywhere via a non-geostationary satellite network. Luxembourg-based SES said Thursday it will use the O3b Medium Earth Orbit system to offer fiber-like connectivity services on IBM Cloud to the government, maritime, aerospace and energy sectors. The partnership seeks to help clients deploy cloud-based tools and applications […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More

  • Boeing Secures $63M Navy Aircraft Restoration IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures $63M Navy Aircraft Restoration IDIQ

    Boeing has received a one-year, $62.7M contract to remanufacture F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler platforms for the U.S. Navy. The company will inspect, refurbish and repair the aircraft units, as well as perform inner wing panel modifications that comply with the service’s new design specifications and service life projections, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Naval […] More

  • Report: First Orion Service Module Scheduled for Delivery to US in Late October - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: First Orion Service Module Scheduled for Delivery to US in Late October

    Representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency and industry have announced that the first service module for the Orion spacecraft will be delivered to the U.S. in late October, Space News reported Wednesday. Mike Hawes, vice president and Orion program manager at Lockheed Martin, said during the 69th International Astronautical Congress that the European-made service […] More

  • Splunk Helps National Ignition Facility Manage IT Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Splunk Helps National Ignition Facility Manage IT Systems

    The National Ignition Facility has implemented Splunk software platforms to manage and analyze information technology systems used to secure the country’s nuclear stockpile. Splunk said Wednesday its Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence systems run on NIF’s Computer Control System built to monitor more than 66K control points across the laser facility. Enterprise works to help the facility’s personnel collect information from […] More

  • DISA Seeks Input on Enterprise Network Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Seeks Input on Enterprise Network Support Services

    The Defense Information Systems Agency is soliciting industry input on services needed to support the Defense Contracting Management Agency‘s enterprise network. Potential providers would deliver maintenance, operations, installation, security compliance, configuration control and design recommendations for the infrastructure of DCMA’s wide and local area networks, DISA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice. Sought services would […] More