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  • Andy Peters of AECOM Joins Labor Dept’s Construction Safety & Health Advisory Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Peters of AECOM Joins Labor Dept’s Construction Safety & Health Advisory Panel

    Andy Peters, a senior vice president and chief safety officer of AECOM, has been appointed by the U.S. Labor Department to serve on DOL’s advisory committee on construction safety and health. Peters will work with the 15-member panel to assist Labor Secretary Thomas Perez in efforts to develop workplace safety and health strategies for the construction industry, AECOM said Thursday. AECOM […] More

  • Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Outfit Conducts Rocket Failure Test Flight in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Outfit Conducts Rocket Failure Test Flight in Texas

    Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin outfit carried out a test flight that had a crew capsule go through a simulated rocket failure in Texas in support of preparations to launch a suborbital system for space tourists in 2018, USA Today reported Wednesday. James Dean writes the New Shepard vehicle booster survived the unmanned test to complete the fifth flight and will be retired […] More

  • Army Taps DRS for Ground Vehicle Infrared Sensor Devt Contract; Shawn Black Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps DRS for Ground Vehicle Infrared Sensor Devt Contract; Shawn Black Comments

    DRS Technologies has received a potential $41.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop an infrared sensor for a system mounted on ground combat vehicles. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, DRS will integrate a two-color IR sensor with the Third-Generation Forward Looking Infrared Dewar Cooler Bench platform designed to help mounted troops identity and engage enemy targets, the […] More

  • Mark Testoni: Graph Tech Offers 'Great Promise' in National Security Arena - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Testoni: Graph Tech Offers ‘Great Promise’ in National Security Arena

    Some national security experts have pointed to a new analytics tool dubbed “graph technology” as a means to help identify signs of cyber attacks before they occur, CNN reported Thursday. Nicole Gaouette writes graph technology works to identify how data is connected to form algorithms that can spot irregularities based on previous patterns. Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National […] More

  • Army Renews Certification for Desktop Alert's Mass Notification System; Howard Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Renews Certification for Desktop Alert’s Mass Notification System; Howard Ryan Comments

    Desktop Alert has received a new certificate of networthiness from the U.S. Army for the latest version of the company’s mass notification system designed to provide warning and instructions to personnel in the event of a critical situation. Version 5 of the Total Alert System works to contact installation computer users and require them to confirm receipt of desktop alert messages that […] More

  • Windstream Offers Network Comms Support to 300 VA Facilities Under Services Consolidation Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Windstream Offers Network Comms Support to 300 VA Facilities Under Services Consolidation Contract

    Windstream has provided network communications services to approximately 300 Department of Veterans Affairs offices across the U.S. within the initial year of the company’s selection for a potential five-year, $450 million contract with VA. The company is one of the three contractors that won positions in August 2015 on the National Consolidation of Local Exchange […] More

  • NASA Seeks 3D-Printed Space Explorer Habitat Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks 3D-Printed Space Explorer Habitat Technologies

    NASA wants technology ideas from citizen inventors that can help create 3D-printed shelters for space explorers as part of the second phase of a $1.1 million challenge. The agency said Friday it started the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge to search for material technologies that could help print shelters from a combination of readily-available and recyclable materials. “Shelter is an obvious necessity as we prepare to explore […] More

  • 10 Startup Companies to Participate in DHS Wearable Tech R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    10 Startup Companies to Participate in DHS Wearable Tech R&D Project

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has chosen 10 startup companies to join a new research-and-development program that seeks to build  wearable devices for first responders. DHS said Thursday the EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology program offers startups the opportunity to equip emergency response personnel with body-worn electronics, sensors and integrated voice and data communications systems. “We need […] More

  • Summit Consulting Lands 2 DOL Civil Investigation Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Consulting Lands 2 DOL Civil Investigation Support Contracts

    Summit Consulting has received a pair of contracts to from the U.S. Labor Department‘s chief evaluation office to assess a civil law enforcement program run by the Employee Benefits Security Administration and develop business intelligence tools to support EBSA’s investigative efforts. The company said Wednesday it will build BI reporting tools based on multiple predictive models in an effort to help […] More

  • NIH Arm Hands Down Zika Vaccine Development Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Arm Hands Down Zika Vaccine Development Grant

    The National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a two-year, $491,000 grant to the Infectious Disease Research Institute to design and develop a new Zika vaccine candidate. IDRI said Thursday it will work to develop platforms that users can utilize for rapid response to potential disease outbreaks. “The recent […] More

  • DLA Requests Info on Potential Antenna Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Requests Info on Potential Antenna Sources

    The Defense Logistics Agency has released a sources sought synopsis as part of its research into vendors that can supply DLA with antennas. DIA approved Boeing and Cobham‘s advanced electronic cage business as potential supply sources and the agency will use data from its market survey to determine the method of procurement for antennas, U.S. Federal Contractor Registration said Wednesday. USFCR added that interested contractors can submit […] More

  • IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency

    IBM’s Australian arm has received a potential six-month, $2.4 million contract to provide an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform for a federal government agency in Australia, ZDNet reported Friday. Asha McLean writes the contract with the Australian Taxation Office comes a month after IBM received approximately $5.3 million in contracts from Australia’s five federal agencies that include the departments […] More