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  • AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus

    Amazon Web Services plans to establish a new corporate campus in Fairfax County, Virginia, as part of expansion efforts and expects the project to create up to 1,500 jobs. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership teamed up with the Major Employment and Investment Commission of the state’s general assembly to land the project, AWS said Thusrday. The AWS facility will be […] More

  • Hortonworks, ViON Subsidiary Partner to Offer Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hortonworks, ViON Subsidiary Partner to Offer Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service Platform

    Hortonworks and ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary have teamed up to offer big data analytics in an appliance-like or as-a-service deployment. The joint offering integrates Ascolta’s analytics platform with the Hortonworks Data Platform to provide support for federal, state and local agencies as well as commercial organizations, Ascolta said Thursday. “As data volume dramatically increases, organizations need access to tools that allow […] More

  • 3 CubeSat Challenge Winners Secure Slots on NASA's 1st Integrated SLS, Orion Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3 CubeSat Challenge Winners Secure Slots on NASA’s 1st Integrated SLS, Orion Flight

    NASA has awarded three teams slots to launch their small satellites aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft dubbed Exploration Mission-1. Winners of the Cube Quest Challenge include Cislunar Explorers from Cornell University, CU-E3 from the University of Colorado and Team Miles from Tampa, Florida-based company Fluid & Reason, NASA said Friday. […] More

  • Globecomm Extends Ku-Band VSAT Network Coverage to South Indian Ocean - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm Extends Ku-Band VSAT Network Coverage to South Indian Ocean

    Globecomm has expanded the coverage of its Ku-band very small aperture terminal network services to shipping vessels traversing the South Indian Ocean. The company said Thursday the South Indian Ocean serves as a shipping route between Australia and the southern end of Africa. Globecomm’s Ku-band VSAT network currently provides broadband communications services to vessel operators […] More

  • Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Team to Chase Navy Large UUV Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Team to Chase Navy Large UUV Program

    Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have partnered to design and build unmanned undersea vehicles as part of a joint pursuit of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large UUV program. The partnership will use HII’s design and production facilities in Huntington Beach, California; Newport News, Virginia; and Panama City, Florida, Boeing said Thursday. The Navy announced in January it plans […] More

  • StackArmor Earns AWS Security Competency Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    StackArmor Earns AWS Security Competency Status

    Bethesda, Maryland-based cloud consulting and managed services provider stackArmor has met the requirements for a “Security Competency” designation under an Amazon Web Services partner network. AWS has included stackArmor as one of ten initial security consulting launch partners for the former’s Partner Competency Program that works to help clients identify vendors that can help them integrate and implement cloud-based platforms, stackArmor said Wednesday. StackArmor […] More

  • ACT I CEO Michael Niggel Talks Cybersecurity at NDIA Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I CEO Michael Niggel Talks Cybersecurity at NDIA Forum

    Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, highlighted the company’s cybersecurity efforts during his presentation at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 9th Defense Industrial Discussions event held last month. ACT I said Niggel offered insights into cyber-related challenges facing the Defense Department and cyber protection initiatives such as the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriots. The CyberPatriots program aims to educate middle […] More

  • McChrystal Group Announces Release of 'One Mission' Book With Foreword From Army Vet Stan McChrystal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McChrystal Group Announces Release of ‘One Mission’ Book With Foreword From Army Vet Stan McChrystal

    Alexandria, Virginia-based consulting services firm McChrystal Group is set to release on June 13 the book “One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams,” by Chris Fussell featuring a foreword by Stan McChrystal, a retired U.S. Army general. One Mission is part of the “Team of Teams” book series and seeks to guide leaders […] More

  • Northrop to Provide Beam Radar Tech for Air Force F-16 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Provide Beam Radar Tech for Air Force F-16 Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force has chosen a Northrop Grumman-built beam radar technology to serve as the active electronically scanned array for the service branch’s F-16 aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday it will install APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar systems on 72 of the Air National Guard’s F-16 units in an effort to help the service branch comply with a “joint emergent operational need” […] More

  • ImmixGroup to Serve as BMC's US Federal Distributor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ImmixGroup to Serve as BMC’s US Federal Distributor

    Information technology company BMC has consolidated its U.S. federal reseller ecosystem under a single distribution channel led by government IT distributor immixGroup. BMC said Wednesday the new strategy is designed to give resellers access to contract vehicles and market intelligence as well as open new channels and streamline procurement. ImmixGroup became BMC’s federal distributor in March and has since added […] More

  • CSRA to Continue NAVSEA Acquisition Support Services Under $61M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Continue NAVSEA Acquisition Support Services Under $61M Task Order

    CSRA has received a five-year, $61 million task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide acquisition support services to NAVSEA’s Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Aircraft Carriers. The task order was awarded through the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e procurement vehicle and will extend CSRA’s support for the carriers, which began in 1991, the company said Wednesday. CSRA will also […] More

  • Socrata Gets FedRAMP Authorization for Cloud-Based Govt Data Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Socrata Gets FedRAMP Authorization for Cloud-Based Govt Data Platform

    Socrata has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization to provide its cloud-based Government Data Platform to public sector customers. The company said Wednesday it achieved the FedRAMP authority to operate through the sponsorship of the Federal Communications Commission. Socrata’s data platform works to provide an enterprise-ready environment to help agencies collect, manage, analyze and disseminate data internally […] More