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  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Industry Backs Military Via Protected Satcom Tech Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Industry Backs Military Via Protected Satcom Tech Investments

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said warfighters seek and use protected tactical waveforms as adversaries target satellite communications through jamming. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Monday that the private sector continues to invest in new technology capabilities that seek to provide protected satcom and anti-jamming […] More

  • Tetra Tech-Maytag JV Wins DLA Fuel System Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech-Maytag JV Wins DLA Fuel System Maintenance Contract

    A Tetra Tech and Maytag joint venture has won a one-year, $7.9 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to provide maintenance and repair services for the Defense Logistics Agency‘s fuel systems. USACE received two bids for the firm-fixed-priced contract via an online solicitation,  the Defense Department said Monday. Tetra Tech-Maytag JV was also awarded a separate one-year, $7.7 […] More

  • Carlos Del Toro Elected White House Fellows Foundation & Association President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carlos Del Toro Elected White House Fellows Foundation & Association President

    Carlos Del Toro, president and CEO of SBG Technology Solutions, has been elected president of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association. Del Toro will be a part of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows and aims to help increase collaboration between alumni, commissioners, fellows and stakeholders who support the White House Fellows program, SBG said […] More

  • Jacobs' Steve Demetriou, Terry Hagen to Talk at Cowen Aerospace/Defense & Industrials Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs’ Steve Demetriou, Terry Hagen to Talk at Cowen Aerospace/Defense & Industrials Conference

    Steve Demetriou, chairman and CEO of Jacobs Engineering Group, and Terry Hagen, president of the company’s aerospace and technology group, are scheduled to speak on Feb. 8 at the 39th annual Cowen Aerospace/Defense & Industrials Conference in New York. Jacobs said Monday Hagen, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, and Demetriou will present at 2:50 p.m. Eastern time. […] More

  • CompTIA Names IT Industry Vets to Association's 2018 Communities Executive Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CompTIA Names IT Industry Vets to Association’s 2018 Communities Executive Board

    Information technology trade group CompTIA has appointed information technology industry executives to its communities executive board for 2018. CompTIA said Monday the association’s member communities and public sector councils  include leaders at multiple technology vendors, distributors and service providers. Member communities are slated to convene for the inaugural CompTIA Community Forum that will take place in Chicago […] More

  • WidePoint Awarded USACE Telecom Expense Mgmt Service Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint Awarded USACE Telecom Expense Mgmt Service Extension

    WidePoint has received a potential three-year, $4.3 million contract to provide mobile Telecom Expense Management services to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The company said Monday it will continue to provide enterprise-wide wireless TEM support for more than 21,000 USACE devices as well as supply wireless equipment and accessories through the contract. Jin Kang, CEO […] More

  • Cisco Invests in India-Based Venture Capital Fund Stellaris Venture Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Invests in India-Based Venture Capital Fund Stellaris Venture Partners

    India-based investment firm Stellaris Venture Partners has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Cisco‘s investments unit, Live Mint reported Monday. The technology venture capital fund invests in business- and consumer-centric start-ups that offer analytics, cloud, enterprise application and Internet of Things products and services. Sameer Garde, president of Cisco India, said the company supports […] More

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    NASA, Media Fusion Develop SLS Flight Virtual Reality Software

    NASA has collaborated with Media Fusion to produce a virtual reality software platform that will allow users to experience the scale of the Space Launch System. The software is designed to run on Oculus Rift VR headsets and simulate the SLS rocket’s Exploration Mission-1 flight from a launch pad located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the agency said Saturday. Anyone […] More

  • DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct an information drive for parties interested to participate in a program that seeks a ground-launched weapon system that can utilize different payloads. DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office will sponsor a Proposers Day to detail the objectives of the OpFires program ahead of a planned broad agency announcement, DARPA said through a […] More

  • Matt Desch Talks Iridium’s Partnership With SpaceX, Growth of Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch Talks Iridium’s Partnership With SpaceX, Growth of Internet of Things

    Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, told Motherboard’s Daniel Oberhaus in an interview published Sunday about the company’s reason for partnering with SpaceX to launch its constellation of Iridium NEXT communications satellites into orbit. “In many ways, the Falcon 9 was built around the Iridium payload because we were the first ones to work with […] More

  • DOE to Hold Contest on Solar Manufacturing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Hold Contest on Solar Manufacturing

    The Department of Energy has announced that it will launch a competition to push U.S. entrepreneurs for new developments on solar manufacturing. The $3 million American Made Solar Prize competition seeks to augment the U.S.’ presence in the solar energy market, and form partnerships between industry players and DOE laboratories, the department said Wednesday. Participants will be given […] More

  • Orbital ATK Confirms Al Yah 3 Satellite's Good Condition After Recent Deviation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Confirms Al Yah 3 Satellite’s Good Condition After Recent Deviation

    Orbital ATK has confirmed the Al Yah 3 commercial communications satellite’s good operational status, following a launch on Thursday wherein the unit entered an unplanned route. Al Yah Satellite Communications commissioned the satellite that was initially launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket, in aims to provide Ka-band coverage over Africa, Orbital ATK said Friday. “Based on […] More