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  • Iron Mountain Opens New Customer Engagement Facility in Pennsylvania - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Opens New Customer Engagement Facility in Pennsylvania

    Iron Mountain has opened a new $4.5 million, 11,600-square-foot customer welcome center called the Guardian Gateway in western Pennsylvania. The facility is located at the company’s underground campus in Boyers that houses storage, imaging, data center as well as data management and restoration operations, Iron Mountain announced Tuesday. “We have deep roots in Butler County and are happy to continue […] More

  • ViaSat to Provide Mobile Device Security Software to US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat to Provide Mobile Device Security Software to US Military

    ViaSat has received a contract of undisclosed value to supply a cybersecurity platform for U.S. military users to protect wearable computing devices against threats. The ViaSat Mobile Dynamic Defense software will work to secure iGov‘s Tactical Local Area Network Field Computing Device-Wearable platforms that are designed to provide dismounted soldiers with a suite of situational awareness and […] More

  • BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform

    Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has received a two-year, $16.4 million contract to build a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory. BlackSky will develop the platform to help government users collect and analyze GEOINT data from multiple data sources worldwide, Spaceflight said Tuesday. “Easy access and streamlined delivery of timely and relevant […] More

  • IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist

    A multinational industry team composed of Crossmatch, FlexEnable and ISORG has been chosen as a finalist of an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity prize challenge that seeks biometric technology for fingerprint capture. Crossmatch said Tuesday the team has developed a proof-of-concept automated capture system under IARPA’s Nail-to-Nail Fingerprint Challenge to help the agency eliminate the need for human operators to […] More

  • Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trellisware Secures USSOCOM Tactical Radio Contract via SBIR Program

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Trellisware Technologies a five-year, $40 million contract to supply Advanced Tactical Scalable Mobile Ad-hoc Network radios to USSOCOM’s Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Center. USSOCOM granted the award following the third phase of a Small Business Innovation Research Program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. San Diego, California-based Trellisware will receive $54,759 […] More

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platforms Grew 197% From FY 2014 to FY 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platforms Grew 197% From FY 2014 to FY 2016

    A new Deltek report says the number of cloud platforms that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program rose from 106 in fiscal 2014 to 315 in fiscal 2016. That figure represents a 197 percent growth in the number of FedRAMP-compliant cloud offerings in use at federal agencies compared with the 45 percent increase in non-FedRAMP compliant […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

  • Battelle, Aerobotix Demo Robotic Collision Avoidance Software Tool in Aircraft Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Aerobotix Demo Robotic Collision Avoidance Software Tool in Aircraft Component

    Battelle and Aerobotix have demonstrated on a mock-up of a military aircraft’s air inlet duct a software platform designed to predict collisions of robotic systems with sensitive industrial components and parts. Battelle said Tuesday its PathPlan software worked to protect the robotic platform and aircraft from potential collisions through prediction of the robot’s movement based on […] More

  • Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites

    Canada-based exactEarth has teamed up with Harris to bring into service five additional satellites as part of the former’s automatic identification system satellite constellation designed to support the delivery of a real-time ship tracking service to the maritime market. The addition of five more exactEarth satellites brings the total number of operational systems in the […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Backs PSMA Australia Digital Mapping Program With WorldView-4 Satellite Imagery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Backs PSMA Australia Digital Mapping Program With WorldView-4 Satellite Imagery

    DigitalGlobe has handed over to PSMA Australia WorldView-4 satellite-based high-resolution imagery in support of the latter’s digital mapping initiative for the Australian continent. PSMA Australia will use DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery for the Geoscape program that seeks to create a digital representation of the built environment for approximately 20 million buildings across Australia that include building […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Help Manage Air Force Space Command's Financial Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Help Manage Air Force Space Command’s Financial Mgmt System

    A Koniag subsidiary has received a contract of an undisclosed value to help the Air Force Space Command manage, update and maintain financial management systems and business process re-engineering functions. Koniag Services Inc. will support information technology systems and networks of AFSPC, the command’s comptroller units, the Air Force Academy and their related financial management platforms, the company said […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy

    Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $2 million contract to develop an automated platform for the U.S. Navy to understand skills and manage training of the military branch’s personnel. The Crowdsourced Acquisition of Models of Learning Transfer Strategies project is part of Charles River’s efforts to address instructional needs and individual differences through intelligent tutoring, the company said Tuesday. […] More