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  • Johns Hopkins APL Licenses Govt-Funded Explosive Detection Canine Training Aid to Gallant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Licenses Govt-Funded Explosive Detection Canine Training Aid to Gallant

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed and licensed a tool for training canine teams to detect peroxide-based homemade explosives. APL said Monday it granted Gallant Technologies rights to produce and market the government-funded canine training aid through a licensing agreement. “Technologies like these will help prevent and deter devastating attacks, and facilitate the ongoing development […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Integrated Satcom Architecture Needs Industry Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Integrated Satcom Architecture Needs Industry Innovation

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes an integrated satellite communications architecture should incorporate industry’s technological advancements to change the cultural misperception about military and commercial satcom. “For space programs, it remains imperative to incorporate advancements from the commercial sector into the baseline [Defense Department] architecture as a […] More

  • Accenture Introduces AI Testing Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Introduces AI Testing Services

    Accenture has unveiled new services designed to help clients test their artificial intelligence systems through a “teach and test” methodology. The process involves the “teach” phase, which evaluates the choice of data, models and algorithms used to train the AI platform to determine the best model as well as address ethical and compliance risks, Accenture said […] More

  • IBM, Siemens Ink Joint Cyber Charter With Industry Partners at Munich Security Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Siemens Ink Joint Cyber Charter With Industry Partners at Munich Security Conference

    Siemens and several other companies have signed a joint charter on cybersecurity at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Siemens said Friday it will work with Airbus, IBM, Daimler Group, Allianz, NXP, Deutsche Telekom and SGS as well as MSC to address 10 cybersecurity action areas under the joint charter. One of those action areas […] More

  • Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort

    The U.S. Army looks to expedite the process for developing a prototype of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle, Defense News reported Thursday. Army Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Thursday that the service branch aims to accelerate various programs, including NGCV, to help address goals of the Defense Department’s National Defense Strategy. In September 2017, the Army awarded […] More

  • BitSight Survey: Botnet Attacks Prevalent Among Govt Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BitSight Survey: Botnet Attacks Prevalent Among Govt Contractors

    A new survey by cybersecurity company BitSight says botnets have become widespread among government contractors specifically for manufacturing and health care firms, e-End reported Friday. BitSight polled at least 1,200 federal government contractors and found that health care firms have recorded a data breach incidence rate of 8.2 percent since January 2016, followed by aerospace […] More

  • BAE Subsidiary Awarded UK Defense Analysis Services Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Subsidiary Awarded UK Defense Analysis Services Extension

    A BAE Systems subsidiary will continue to serve as prime contractor for the U.K. defense science and technology laboratory’s Analysis Support Construct framework under a two-year contract extension. BAE Systems CORDA currently supports the ASC mission through an initial contract that was awarded in August 2015 and slated to end in March of this year, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Report: Aerojet Rocketdyne, USAF Restructure Rocket Engine Devt Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Aerojet Rocketdyne, USAF Restructure Rocket Engine Devt Agreement

    Aerojet Rocketdyne and the U.S. Air Force have begun to renegotiate an agreement over the development of the company’s rocket engine, SpaceNews reported Friday. The company develops the AR1 engine under a potential $115.3 million “other transaction” agreement the service branch awarded in 2016. The service’s space and missile systems center said Aerojet Rocketdyne has requested to […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Additional Towed-Array Sonar Systems for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Produce Additional Towed-Array Sonar Systems for Navy

    Lockheed Martin has received a $50.9 million contract modification to produce and engineer twin line towed-array sonars for the U.S. Navy. The company will supply two TL-29A systems as well as provide one spare array and refurbishment services to the program executive office for submarines at the service branch’s Maritime Surveillance Systems Program Office, the […] More

  • Firelake-Arrowhead to Help Maintain NASA Glenn Research Center Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Firelake-Arrowhead to Help Maintain NASA Glenn Research Center Facilities

    Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services has secured a potential $52.4 million contract to help manage facilities and construction projects for the space agency’s Glenn Research Center. The Construction, Maintenance, Environmental and Testing Services contract has an 18-month base period, a two-year option and an additional 18-month option, NASA said Saturday. The company will also perform environmental and energy […] More

  • AAR Unit to Repair, Maintain Navy Mobile Containers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR Unit to Repair, Maintain Navy Mobile Containers

    An AAR business unit has received a five-year contract to support repair and maintenance of internal airlift and helicopter slingable unit containers for the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Special Warfare Group 2. AAR Mobility Systems will maintain more than 300 ISUs for East Coast units that are based out of Navy Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek in Virginia. The company’s mobile field service teams and […] More

  • CACI to Help Maintain Army National Guard End Strength Under $60M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Maintain Army National Guard End Strength Under $60M Contract

    A CACI International subsidiary has won a three-year, $60 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop resources for the service branch’s initiative to increase the end strength of the Army National Guard. CACI-CMS Information Systems will support the National Guard strength maintenance program and deliver specific calls-to-action messaging in various markets as part of […] More