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  • AT&T Joins NASA-Industry UAS Traffic Mgmt Initiative; Mike Leff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Joins NASA-Industry UAS Traffic Mgmt Initiative; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T supports a NASA-led project to research and develop a traffic management system for the agency to manage the safety and security of unmanned aircraft system operations in U.S. airspace. The company said Thursday it aims to contribute networking, internet of things, cloud, identity management and cybersecurity expertise to NASA’s UAS traffic management initiative. “Drones are already used in agriculture, public […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Air Force IR Sensor Chip Assemblies Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Air Force IR Sensor Chip Assemblies Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $7.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the advancement of low noise infrared sensor chip assemblies for the National Strategic Space. Raytheon will update and maintain the scientific knowledge, growth and processing characterization functions of the assemblies as part of the Focused Opportunity Reaching Toward Reliable Electro-Optic Strategic Sensors program, the […] More

  • DARPA, Leidos to Extend Anti-Submarine Unmanned Vessel Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Leidos to Extend Anti-Submarine Unmanned Vessel Test

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Leidos an $8.5 million contract modification to extend the testing phase of an unmanned vessel the company developed for tracking underwater threats. Leidos will perform tests as part of DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work is scheduled to complete work under the modification in […] More

  • Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel's Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel’s Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community

    Carahsoft Technology and Terra Pixel have partnered to offer the latter company’s geospatial data streaming platform through an online cloud marketplace Amazon Web Services runs for the U.S. intelligence community. Terra Pixel’s Streamap uses cloud computing technology to index, share and search Open Geospatial Consortium standards-based geospatial data sets, Carahsoft said Thursday. Matt Rattigan, manager of AWS marketplace solutions at Carahsoft, said intelligence […] More

  • Deltek Report: FedRAMP, IT Modernization Efforts to Drive Federal Cloud Computing Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: FedRAMP, IT Modernization Efforts to Drive Federal Cloud Computing Demand

    A Deltek report has predicted that federal demand for vendor-furnished cloud computing services will reach $6.35 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $3.1 billion in FY 2016 at a 15 percent compound annual growth rate. The “Federal Priorities: Cloud, Big Data, Mobility, and Data Centers 2016-2021” report also forecasts that federal demand for big data products and services […] More

  • Former IBM Group Manager Brendan Hannigan Named Polaris Venture Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former IBM Group Manager Brendan Hannigan Named Polaris Venture Partner

    Brendan Hannigan, former general manager of the security division at IBM, has joined Polaris Partners as a venture partner to support the investment company’s efforts to finance and establish security, cloud and software-as-a-service businesses. He also plans to invest in technology startups and seek new business opportunities in his new position, Polaris said Thursday. “For more than 15 years, we’ve known Brendan as a great […] More

  • Lockheed Chief Marillyn Hewson Offers 3 Ideas to Maintain NATO's Tech Edge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Chief Marillyn Hewson Offers 3 Ideas to Maintain NATO’s Tech Edge

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said NATO and industry partners can maintain their technological edge through sustained investment, interoperability and talent development. Hewson said Wednesday at the NATO-Industry forum in Brussels alliance members should provide consistent and sustained defense spending to support operational readiness and the industry’s research and development efforts. She added alliance members’ pledges to allocate 2 percent of their gross domestic product […] More

  • AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments

    Amazon Web Services has added the conceptual data mining and analytic offering of uReveal to an AWS-run intelligence community marketplace for cloud-based products and services. UReveal said Wednesday its software will work to help IC analysts manage and examine raw data in real time as well as view structured or unstructured data in a unified view. Ren Mohan, chief […] More

  • Matt Desch: SpaceX ‘Back on the Path’ for Iridium Satellite Launch After Rocket Explosion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: SpaceX ‘Back on the Path’ for Iridium Satellite Launch After Rocket Explosion

    Iridium CEO Matt Desch has said he is confident that SpaceX is back on track to launch Iridium’s new fleet of satellites into orbit after Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, spoke about the cause of the Sept. 1 explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. “We’ve been privy to the thinking and the […] More

  • FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau's Social Media Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau’s Social Media Awareness

    The FBI wants to license Dataminr‘s alerting tool that can provide the bureau access to the company’s indicators and warnings service as well as customizable filters to search the entire Twitter database. A notice posted Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website says the FBI plans to enter into a sole-source agreement to use the company’s technology and receive comprehensive technical support services. The […] More

  • Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has been selected to supply the company’s Telemetrix 400 range receiver to the U.S. Army as part of the military branch’s effort to update its telemetry program. RT Logic’s range receiver incorporates a digital intermediate frequency ingest that the Army will use to modernize an unnamed test site, Kratos […] More

  • Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations

    Inmarsat has started to offer updated aeronautical services meant to support command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions of government clients. Inmarsat said Tuesday some government entities use the company’s globally available L-band space and ground network to manage multiple platforms and missions. The company added its aeronautical services allow partners to offer data transmission rates of up to 10 megabits […] More