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  • Comprehensive Health Services Completes Annual HIPAA Compliance Audit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comprehensive Health Services Completes Annual HIPAA Compliance Audit

    GuidePoint Security has evaluated Comprehensive Health Services‘ compliance with data security requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Cape Canaveral, Florida-based Comprehensive Health Services said Wednesday the annual HIPAA assessment covered  the company’s administrative, physical and technical measures to protect client data. During the audit, GuidePoint collected information from personnel interviews, documents and responses to assessment questions. Comprehensive Health […] More

  • Inmarsat's Kai Tang Highlights Global Xpress Satellite Connectivity Support for Mobile Govt Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Kai Tang Highlights Global Xpress Satellite Connectivity Support for Mobile Govt Users

    Kai Tang, vice president for commercial strategy and operations at Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, has said Inmarsat’s Global Xpress commercial satellite network is designed to address the growing connectivity needs of mobile government users. Tang wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that Global Xpress works to eliminate complex tasks associated with the use of […] More

  • Lockheed-Built LRASM Passes Flight Test, Moves Closer to Early Operational Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built LRASM Passes Flight Test, Moves Closer to Early Operational Capability

    The U.S. Navy has completed a test flight of Lockheed Martin‘s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile system from a U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber aircraft. Lockheed said Tuesday two LRASMs engaged multiple maritime targets and met primary objectives during the test over Point Mogu Sea Range in California. David Helsel, LRASM program director at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control unit, said the recent flight showcased […] More

  • Air Force Orders Boeing Minuteman Wafer Instrumentation Support Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Boeing Minuteman Wafer Instrumentation Support Kits

    Boeing has received a $40.6 million modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to provide mod 7 wafer instrumentation support kits for the service branch’s flight test of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company will deliver the kits to support the Minuteman force development evaluation program at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD […] More

  • DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Eyes Cloud Services Contract Award in Q4 FY 2018; IBM’s Sam Gordy Comments

    The Defense Department plans to award a potential 10-year contract to a single vendor by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 to provide cloud computing platforms and services across the agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. DoD said in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure strategy document it plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a full […] More

  • Orbital ATK Subsidiary Gets Preliminary FCC Approval for In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Subsidiary Gets Preliminary FCC Approval for In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Mission

    Orbital ATK‘s Space Logistics subsidiary has obtained initial approval from the Federal Communications Commission to conduct in-orbit servicing on an Intelsat satellite, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. FCC authorized Space Logistics’ Mission Extension Vehicle-1 spacecraft to perform rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking with the Intelsat-901 satellite in a graveyard orbit, the report said. Joe Anderson, Space Logistics vice president of […] More

  • KBR Govt Arm to Support Navy Multimission Datalink System Under $69M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Govt Arm to Support Navy Multimission Datalink System Under $69M Contract

    KBR‘s government services business has received a potential five-year, $69.3 million contract to help the U.S. Navy integrate, test, engineer and install a multimission datalink system. The Defense Department said Tuesday that KBRwyle will also perform in-service  engineering, training, logistics, repair, validation, quality assurance, lab maintenance and technical management services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. KBRwyle will provide the […] More

  • Northrop Backs Cyber, STEM Education Programs at U.S. Naval Academy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Backs Cyber, STEM Education Programs at U.S. Naval Academy

    Northrop Grumman has invested an undisclosed sum to help expand the U.S. Naval Academy’s cyber, science, technology, engineering and math programs. The company and its philanthropic arm have also donated more than $21 million to support strategic priorities of USNA since 2001, Northrop said Tuesday. The Northrop Grumman Foundation is supporting USNA’s Cybersecurity Capstone Project this academic school year […] More

  • NetApp Recognizes WWT as DoD Value-Added Reseller Partner; Robert Stein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp Recognizes WWT as DoD Value-Added Reseller Partner; Robert Stein Comments

    World Wide Technology has received recognition from NetApp for work as a value-added reseller of the latter company’s products to the Defense Department. NetApp selected WWT for the “Top DoD VAR Partner of the Year” award based on total revenue earned over the past four fiscal quarters, WWT said Tuesday. Robert Stein, vice president of NetApp’s public sector business, said the company […] More

  • Air Force to Host 2-Day Nuclear C3 Workshop in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Host 2-Day Nuclear C3 Workshop in January

    The U.S. Air Force is inviting senior technical professionals from the commercial and academic sectors to participate in an upcoming two-day workshop that will tackle advancements and challenges in the nuclear command, control and communications domain. A FedBizOpps notice posted Dec. 6 says the 2018 Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Concept and Challenges Workshop will take place […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary Gets Modification for Arleigh Burke-class Lead Yard Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Gets Modification for Arleigh Burke-class Lead Yard Services

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has received a $23.9 million modification for additional Arleigh Burke-class lead yard services including engineering and technical support to construct new ships. Services under the original lead yard services contract include ship construction liaison, general class support, logistics support, design agent support, change design support and Arleigh Burke-class Flight III upgrade design efforts, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Esri to Help UN Member States Use ArcGIS-Based Data Hub for Sustainable Development Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Help UN Member States Use ArcGIS-Based Data Hub for Sustainable Development Efforts

    The United Nations Statistics Division has partnered with Esri in an effort to help UN member states implement a data respository for assessing, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals. Esri said Monday the Federated System for the SDGs is based on the company-built ArcGIS mapping platform and designed to process location intelligence data. Gregg Scott, inter-regional adviser for global geospatial information management […] More