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  • Orbital ATK to Resume Antares Rocket Launches in September; Frank Culbertson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Resume Antares Rocket Launches in September; Frank Culbertson Comments

    Orbital ATK plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft aboard its upgraded Antares 230 rocket in September as part of the company’s eighth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services contract, Space News reported Monday. “The launch date on the manifest now is September the 12th,” Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK’s […] More

  • CenturyLink, ThreatConnect Form Managed Security Service Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink, ThreatConnect Form Managed Security Service Partnership

    CenturyLink will integrate its managed security service offering with ThreatConnect‘s threat defense platform in efforts to help customers strengthen their cybersecurity posture. ThreatConnect said Monday it seeks to help CenturyLink and clients implement or incorporate the SAP HANA-powered ThreatConnect platform into threat detection, protection and remediation operations. CenturyLink works with customers to identify, block and mitigate security threats through security […] More

  • NIST Awards First Responder Broadband Tech R&D Grant to Sonim Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Awards First Responder Broadband Tech R&D Grant to Sonim Technologies

    Sonim Technologies has received a $1.4 million grant from the public safety communications research division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to research, develop, produce and test broadband technologies for emergency communications. Sonim said Monday it will collaborate with Nemergent Solutions to create an open source push-to-talk system that can operate with current narrowband equipment. “Our goal is to […] More

  • NVTC Leaders Discuss H-1B Visa’s Role in US Tech Workforce With Sen. Tom Cotton - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVTC Leaders Discuss H-1B Visa’s Role in US Tech Workforce With Sen. Tom Cotton

    Northern Virginia Technology Council board members and member company executives held a meeting with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) on June 7 to discuss how H-1B non-immigrant visas help technology firms and universities gain access to highly-skilled employees. NVTC leaders told Cotton how H-1B visas help companies employ workers to fill job posts in the areas […] More

  • Report: Navy to Release RFP for MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy to Release RFP for MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Deployment

    The U.S. Navy will issue a request for proposals later this year for the deployment of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker, USNI News reported Monday. Four competitors under the MQ-25A program will receive the RFP, including General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The companies received one-year contract modifications from the Navy in April to perform risk reduction […] More

  • Tom Keane: Microsoft Debuts Internet-of-Things Hub on Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Keane: Microsoft Debuts Internet-of-Things Hub on Azure Govt Cloud

    Microsoft has introduced an internet-of-things hub on the company’s Azure Government cloud platform in a push to help customer agencies connect, track and manage connected devices. Tom Keane, general manager of the Microsoft Azure team, wrote in a blog entry published Monday the IoT Hub is designed to help government users secure communications from  device to cloud and or vice versa. The […] More

  • Leidos Gets NAVSUP Task Order for Joint Staff J6 Team Support; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets NAVSUP Task Order for Joint Staff J6 Team Support; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential three-year, $18 million task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center to support a Joint Staff J6 team responsible for analyzing warfighter systems and procedures in the field. The company said Monday it will provide technical, functional, analytical, infrastructure and operations support services to the JS J6 directorate’s Joint Deployable Analysis […] More

  • Chimera Secures DTRA Advisory, Assistance Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chimera Secures DTRA Advisory, Assistance Services Contract

    Chimera Enterprises International has received a potential five-year, $45 million contract for advisory and assistance services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s operations, readiness and exercises directorate. The Defense Department said Monday Chimera will help the directorate research. plan, design, develop, implement, integrate and apply transitioning systems that deal with weapons of mass destruction. Work will occur […] More

  • Moog Lands Navy F-18 Aircraft Repair Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moog Lands Navy F-18 Aircraft Repair Support IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Moog a potential five-year, $50 million contract to repair 26 items for the U.S. Navy‘s F-18 aircraft fleet. Moog will perform work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through June 2022 at various locations in California, Florida and New York, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the Navy will obligate fiscal 2017 working […] More

  • Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments

    Riverbed Technology is set to present a suite of software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms designed for cloud environments at the three-day Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it will demonstrate its SteelConnect SD-WAN offering that works to combine policy-based orchestration and management across […] More

  • Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities

    Leidos has received a potential nine-month, $12 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Arderock Division to support acoustic trials and research activities at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility. The contract contains a six-month base period plus one three-month option and work will occur at various locations in Alaska, Washington and Mississippi, Leidos said Monday. Mike Chagnon, […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK has concluded its seventh cargo delivery mission to International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The company said Sunday its Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed S.S. John Glen, also served as a platform for in-space research before the vehicle re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. S.S. John Glenn was launched atop a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V […] More