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  • Defense News: US Companies to Get 50% of Missile Defense Funds for Israel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: US Companies to Get 50% of Missile Defense Funds for Israel

    Approximately 50 percent of work that will result from U.S. missile defense funds for Israel will go to U.S. companies, Defense News reported Thursday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Boeing and Raytheon as well as their U.S. subcontractors and suppliers will receive half of the production funds to support work for the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow missile defense programs […] More

  • ViaSat's Rugged Network Encryptors Gain NSA Certification; Jerry Goodwin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat’s Rugged Network Encryptors Gain NSA Certification; Jerry Goodwin Comments

    ViaSat has received National Security Agency certification for two encryption platforms the company designed to secure communications networks. The broadband services and technology provider said Wednesday its NSA-certified KG-250XS and IPS-250X encryptors are now available for purchase by government agencies. Jerry Goodwin, chief operating officer of the government systems division at ViaSat, said the certification supports the company’s efforts to grow its cyber […] More

  • NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NeuroCog Trials Receives Federal Mental Health Assessment Tool Development Grant

    NeuroCog Trials has received a $2 million grant from the the National Institute of Mental Health to gather additional normative data and internationalize a functional capacity assessment tool. NeuroCog Trials said Thursday the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool was developed to serve as a platform to present a realistic and immersive environment to recreate routine activities of […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat 'Green' Propulsion System Maturity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support CubeSat ‘Green’ Propulsion System Maturity

    NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to support the technology maturity of a CubeSat “green” propulsion system that works to boost maneuverability, safety and performance compared with systems using traditional hydrazine propellants. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the AF-M315E green propellant for the MPS-130 propulsion system serves to drive CubeSat and SmallSat development in terms of mission life extension, architecture resiliency and ability to perform proximity […] More

  • Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research

    The Energy Department‘s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded a $450,000 grant to Xinghang Zhang, a professor at Purdue University’s school of materials engineering, to support his three-year research project on the strength of aluminum. Purdue said Aug. 9 the “Deformation Mechanisms of Nanotwinned Aluminum and Binary Aluminum Alloys” project will use a transmission electron microscope to analyze the […] More

  • USAID Chooses 21 Innovation Proposals to Help Fight Zika Virus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID Chooses 21 Innovation Proposals to Help Fight Zika Virus

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has released the initial list of funding recipients under a $30 million competition that seeks to develop methods and tools for counter-Zika virus efforts. USAID said Tuesday it received almost 900 proposals worldwide for its Combating Zika and Future Threats: A Grand Challenge for Development and chose only 21 submissions across such categories as vector […] More

  • SAP NS2 Develops Machine Learning Tool for Counterterrorism Missions; Mark Testoni Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2 Develops Machine Learning Tool for Counterterrorism Missions; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services has developed a tool that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help counter terrorist activities online, Fast Company reported Thursday. Steven Melendez writes SAP NS2 currently works with government agencies to monitor terrorism-related activities in social media and with cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect to identify threats in computer networks in real […] More

  • Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line

    Cobham and telecommunications infrastructure provider Kapsch have installed a terrestrial trunked radio network on a new Metro railway line in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in an effort to provide communications services to emergency services and rail transport staff in support of the 2016 Olympics. The TETRA network installed at Rio de Janeiro’s Metro Line 4 route […] More

  • DISA Clears Airbus' Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Clears Airbus’ Encryption Device for DoD Voice Networks

    An Airbus Group voice encryption technology has been added to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s list of approved products for deployment on Defense Department-run networks. Airbus said Thursday its ECTOCRYP Black device with R1.2.3 software offers voice communications security options not previously seen in legacy Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol systems. The platform is built with a common commercial-off-the-shelf hardware architecture that operators can program to accommodate new features […] More

  • SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments

    SRI International has spun off and unveiled an agriculture firm that aims to automate fruit harvesting operations through robotics. Abundant Robotics will leverage SRI’s agricultural robotics research efforts in order to commercialize systems intended for orchard agriculture automation, SRI International said Wednesday. “The first automated apple harvesting system that doesn’t bruise or damage the produce will […] More

  • Exelon to Acquire Entergy's NY-Based Nuclear Power Plant Under $110M Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelon to Acquire Entergy’s NY-Based Nuclear Power Plant Under $110M Deal

    Exelon Generation has entered a $110 million agreement with Entergy Corporation to acquire the latter’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, New York. Exelon said Monday the deal is expected to close in 2017 once it receives approval from state and federal agencies such as the Justice Department, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the […] More