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  • IBM, Air Force Launch 'Neuromorphic' Supercomputer Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Air Force Launch ‘Neuromorphic’ Supercomputer Tech

    IBM and the Air Force Research Laboratory have unveiled an experimental supercomputing machine that will work to mimic the human brain’s neural network to perform pattern recognition and integrated sensory processing functions. AFRL said Tuesday it currently examines applications of the Blue Raven machine at the Information Directorate Advanced Computing Applications Lab located in Rome, N.Y. Blue Raven is equipped with IBM’s TrueNorth software […] More

  • Telos Seeks to Streamline NIST Cyber Framework Adoption With New Xacta 360 Risk Mgmt App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos Seeks to Streamline NIST Cyber Framework Adoption With New Xacta 360 Risk Mgmt App

    Telos has launched a new application for its risk management tool designed to facilitate the implementation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework. The new cyber risk management app for the company’s Xacta 360 platform works to help organizations carry out security risk self-assessments and management operations, Telos said Tuesday. Rick Tracy, […] More

  • Janus Clears Explosives at Former ISIS-Held Grain Silo in Iraq - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janus Clears Explosives at Former ISIS-Held Grain Silo in Iraq

    Explosives experts from Janus Global Operations have cleared a grain processing facility in Tal Afar, Iraq, months after the Iraqi Army drove out Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters from the area. The company said Wednesday its teams found and deactivated more than 70 improvised explosive devices, rockets, grenades, mortar and other weapons, and cleared more than 192,000 […] More

  • Parsons Gets $76M Contract Modification to Help Update Army Network Visualization Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Gets $76M Contract Modification to Help Update Army Network Visualization Platform

    Parsons‘ government services unit has received a $75.6 million contract modification to develop and build out of the U.S. Army‘s Enhanced Network Visualization Environment Cyber Operations Infrastructure. The Defense Department said Tuesday work on the project will take place in Centerville, Va., and is scheduled to finish by Dec. 13, 2019. The Army Contracting Command will obligate […] More

  • ICF: 90% of Federal Leaders Say Govt Digital Efforts Should Prioritize Citizen Experience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF: 90% of Federal Leaders Say Govt Digital Efforts Should Prioritize Citizen Experience

    A new ICF survey has found that 90 percent of federal agency leaders said they think agencies should make citizen experience a priority in their digital transformation efforts. ICF said Tuesday it polled 500 government program level directors and employees for the Federal Digital Trends 2018 Report and found that 97 percent of respondents said […] More

  • AWS' Teresa Carlson: Public Sector Needs 'Cutting-Edge' Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS’ Teresa Carlson: Public Sector Needs ‘Cutting-Edge’ Tools

    Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has emphasized the company’s work with government clients to help them implement technology that can aid their missions, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “They need to have the most innovative and cutting-edge tools they can,” Carlson was quoted as saying. She noted […] More

  • Report: DoD to Raise EHR System Deployment Contract Ceiling by $1.1B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DoD to Raise EHR System Deployment Contract Ceiling by $1.1B

    The Defense Department plans to increase the ceiling amount of a potential 10-year, $4.3 billion contract to update and deploy a new electronic health records platform by approximately $1.1 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. An industry team composed of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won the MHS Genesis EHR contract in July 2015. Stacy Cummings, program executive officer […] More

  • Richard White Talks SSL’s On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Assembly Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard White Talks SSL’s On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Assembly Work

    Richard White, president of government systems business of Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, has said he believes on-orbit satellite servicing initiatives could transform the basic principles of how industry and government use and regard satellites, the Via Satellite magazine reported in its August 2018 issue. White mentioned the company’s on-orbit assembly work through the Dragonfly program with NASA […] More

  • KBR's Government Arm to Help USAF Sustain Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR’s Government Arm to Help USAF Sustain Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System

    KBR‘s government services business has received a potential 51-month, $36.5 million task order to help sustain the U.S. Air Force‘s current intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company said Wednesday that KBRwyle will provide sustainment engineering support for the LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM weapon and related ground and support equipment. KBRwyle will conduct technical and scientific analyses and offer recommendations to address reliability, […] More

  • Former IBM Exec Sridhar Sudarsan Named SparkCognition CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IBM Exec Sridhar Sudarsan Named SparkCognition CTO

    Sridhar Sudarsan, formerly chief technology officer of Watson platform and partnerships at IBM, has been appointed to the same role at SparkCognition. Sudarsan will oversee SparkCognition’s technical and product strategy in collaboration with Bruce Porter, the firm’s chief science officer, and other industry and artificial intelligence experts, the company said Tuesday. Amir Husain, founder and CEO […] More

  • OptumServe to Continue Support for Two Federal Health Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OptumServe to Continue Support for Two Federal Health Programs

      Optum’s federal government health services business has renewed two of its federal health contracts with a total value of $58.7 million to extend its services to 9/11 first responders and the military. The health services provider said Tuesday OptumServe’s Logistics Health subsidiary will participate in the World Trade Center Health Program for another two […] More

  • NASA Selects 43 Additional Small Biz Tech R&D Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects 43 Additional Small Biz Tech R&D Proposals

    NASA has announced 43 new awards worth $5.4 million combined under the first phase of the space agency’s 2018 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The agency said Tuesday its Marshall Space Flight Center will manage the additional awards, which came two months after the initial selection of 348 SBIR and STTR proposals to develop technology platforms in areas […] More