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  • Airbus, Aerostar Complete Test Flight of Stratospheric ISR Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Aerostar Complete Test Flight of Stratospheric ISR Technologies

    Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and Aerostar have finished testing hardened communications systems designed to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors in the stratosphere. The test flight, conducted from Nov. 8 to Dec. 6, involved adapting an Aerostar Thunderhead Stratospheric Balloon system and satellite communication terminals on Aerostar’s high altitude balloon systems and Airbus’ high-altitude fixed wing […] More

  • Sue Gordon, Mike Studeman Join DTEX Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sue Gordon, Mike Studeman Join DTEX Advisory Board

    DTEX Systems, a company offering insider risk management, has named Sue Gordon and Mike Studeman to its newly established advisory board. The company said Tuesday the industry veterans will leverage their extensive experience in cybersecurity and intelligence in driving DTEX’s strategy with a focus on growth, impact and enterprise security transformation. Sue Gordon Gordon, president of […] More

  • Rick Hanson Named Forcepoint's President of Go-to-Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Hanson Named Forcepoint’s President of Go-to-Market

    Rick Hanson, who has over three decades of leadership experience, has assumed the newly created role of president of go-to-market at Forcepoint. The company said Tuesday Hanson will be responsible for unifying the sales and customer success teams to scale global go-to-market operations. He will also lead strategy development efforts to ensure customer requirements are […] More

  • Intelligent Waves to Provide Cyber Support for US Judiciary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelligent Waves to Provide Cyber Support for US Judiciary

    Intelligent Waves has received a $23.5 million contract to provide comprehensive cybersecurity support services for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Under the five-year agreement, adversarial assessments will be carried out to simulate and evaluate worst-case cyber breach scenarios, helping the AOUSC to identify and mitigate potential threats, Intelligent Waves said Tuesday. Protecting the […] More

  • Ask Sage Completes Series A Round for Generative AI Platform Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ask Sage Completes Series A Round for Generative AI Platform Expansion

    Ask Sage, the developer of a multi-modal generative artificial intelligence platform for government, the defense industrial base and commercial clients, completed its Series A funding round and raised $17 million from an investor group led by Sapphire Ventures, with the participation of Mucker Capital. In a press release Monday, Nicolas Chaillan, Ask Sage founder and […] More

  • RTX BBN Technologies Secures ARPA-H Award to Enhance Medical Chatbots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RTX BBN Technologies Secures ARPA-H Award to Enhance Medical Chatbots

    RTX BBN Technologies, an advanced technology research and development provider, has secured an award under an other transaction agreement to develop technologies that enhance medical chatbots for more reliable and accurate healthcare responses. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said Tuesday the funding received from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, will be used to […] More

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    Inside Booz Allen’s Defense Innovation Strategy With Judi Dotson

    Booz Allen Hamilton is at the forefront of defense technology innovation and leadership. The firm was one of the top 10 U.S. defense contractors in 2024 based on revenue, and the company is gearing up for even more growth, with expectations of reaching up to 13 percent growth for fiscal year 2025. Judi Dotson, president of the […] More

  • SandboxAQ's AI-Based Test to Support Army Battery Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ’s AI-Based Test to Support Army Battery Maintenance

    Technology company SandboxAQ has developed a performance dataset and artificial intelligence-based processes for advanced battery shelf-life testing to support the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s predictive maintenance.  The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new tools are useful in the status assessment of lithium-ion batteries that power various Army applications, such as portable devices. It […] More

  • MetTel's Don Parente on Starlink, SD-WAN Broadband Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MetTel’s Don Parente on Starlink, SD-WAN Broadband Service

    Don Parente, vice president of public sector sales at MetTel, discussed how the Starlink satellite internet constellation has provided an opportunity for MetTel to expand its software-defined wide area network, or SD-WAN, broadband services to federal government customers. In this Federal News Network podcast, Parente explained how MetTel integrated Starlink with its SD-WAN to deliver […] More

  • Leidos Conducts Second Hypersonic System Test Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Conducts Second Hypersonic System Test Launch

    Leidos completed last month its second test launch for the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program, which seeks to accelerate testing with commercially available hypersonic launch systems. The test, part of the MACH-TB program awarded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems other transaction authority […] More

  • DARPA Awards R&D Contract to BAE Systems for Sensor That Can Operate in Extreme Temperatures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards R&D Contract to BAE Systems for Sensor That Can Operate in Extreme Temperatures

    BAE Systems has secured a $12 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to produce a new pressure sensor module that can operate under extreme temperatures. The company said Monday that work on the contract will be conducted by its FAST Labs research and development organization in support of DARPA’s High Operational Temperature […] More

  • Peraton to Operate, Enhance Medicare Systems Under CMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton to Operate, Enhance Medicare Systems Under CMS Contract

    Peraton has secured a recompete contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Information Technology to operate and maintain as well as modernize Medicare enrollment and billing systems. The company said Monday it will support the Medicare beneficiary and enrollment databases and premium billing support platform to strengthen digital infrastructure, enhance resource management, […] More