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  • HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army

    HDT Expeditionary Systems has received a $9.3 million contract to manufacture heaters for the U.S. Army‘s combat vehicles. The contract contains a 21-month base period and one 10-month option period, the Defense Department said Friday. HDT Expeditionary will carry out work in Ohio through May 15, 2018. The Defense Logistics Agency used its fiscal 2016 through […] More

  • NASA Seeks Academic Concepts for Spacecraft Assembly Methods in Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Academic Concepts for Spacecraft Assembly Methods in Space

    NASA wants ideas from teams of undergraduate and graduate students in fields related to human space exploration as part of the agency’s 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing Idea challenge. The agency said the competition seeks concepts on how to assemble spacecraft as they are in space and in particular tugs that use solar electric propulsion to transfer payloads from low-earth orbit to […] More

  • Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS

    Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

  • DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biopharmaceutical production system meant to create treatments in the battlefield, Biopharma Reporter reported Tuesday. Melissa Fassbender writes the system comprises a biologics expression system that produces therapeutic proteins and a microfluidic platform. Tyler McQuade, program manager for DARPA’s battlefield medicine program, […] More

  • DCS Receives Air Force Delivery Order for KC-46A Tanker Software Devt & Integration Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCS Receives Air Force Delivery Order for KC-46A Tanker Software Devt & Integration Support

    DCS Corp. has secured a $7.9 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force to provide software development and integration services to help create a joint mission planning system for the service branch’s KC-46A tanker aircraft. The company said Thursday the delivery order was awarded through the Air Force’s Mission Planning Enterprise Contract II that covers aircraft mission planning systems for […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy's Super Hornet Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy’s Super Hornet Fleet

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $23.7 million contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce spares for company-built sensor technology installed on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F aircraft fleet. The IRST21 sensor works to detect and monitor airborne threats with the use of infrared search and track technology and displays high-resolution imagery of multiple targets visible to pilots, Lockheed said Thursday. Paul […] More

  • Sierra7, Valytics to Evaluate Quality of VA's Software Codebase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra7, Valytics to Evaluate Quality of VA’s Software Codebase

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a five-year contract to prime contractor Sierra7 and subcontractor Valytics to help evaluate the quality of VA’s software code under the Software Quality Integration Results and Evaluation program. Valytics said Thursday it will work with Sierra7 to provide techniques and tools that will work to establish a software code evaluation process […] More

  • CyrusOne Plans New Sterling, VA Hyperscale Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Plans New Sterling, VA Hyperscale Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments

    CyrusOne has purchased a Sterling, Virginia-based shell building that the company intends to develop into a data center facility as part of efforts to help address customer demand for hyperscale computing services. The 129,064-square-foot building at 511 Shaw Road is close to CyrusOne’s other data centers in Sterling, the company said Thursday. “Given the unprecedented speed of our massively modular engineering capabilities, […] More

  • CH2M to Help Create Guidance for Airport Maintenance Management System Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M to Help Create Guidance for Airport Maintenance Management System Implementation

    CH2M will serve as a research partner to the Airport Cooperative Research Program in an effort to develop guidance for computer maintenance management system updates at airports. John Fortin, CH2M principal investigator, and Laith Alfaqih, deputy PI and project manager, will lead the research project that seeks to provide recommendations for utilizing a CMMS for airport maintenance, the company said […] More

  • Joshua Newman: Salesforce Health Cloud Meets FedRAMP Security Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joshua Newman: Salesforce Health Cloud Meets FedRAMP Security Standards

    Salesforce.com‘s health cloud platform has met FedRAMP security standards requirements and has been included on the company’s moderate Authority-to-Operate for the Government Cloud platform, Salesforce said in a post published Monday. Joshua Newman, Salesforce chief medical officer and general medical officer of healthcare and life sciences, wrote the Health Cloud platform has been authorized for deployment on […] More

  • General Dynamics, Army Select General Micro Systems Computer for WIN-T Increment 2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Army Select General Micro Systems Computer for WIN-T Increment 2

    Rancho Cucamonga, California-based electronics manufacturer General Micro Systems‘ rugged computer has been selected for installation into the second increment of the U.S. Army‘s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, Military & Aerospace reported Friday. John Keller writes General Dynamics and Army Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical officials will use the GMS S902R Golden-Eye III system in vehicle-mount, WIN-T Increment 2 […] More

  • DISA Grants STIG Certification to MobileIron Security Platform; Barry Mainz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Grants STIG Certification to MobileIron Security Platform; Barry Mainz Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued its Security Technical Implementation Guide approval to a MobileIron-built mobile device management platform for deployment at the Defense Department. DISA cleared the MobileIron Core platform for use on iOS and Android devices in certain DoD-run networks, the company said Thursday. “The DoD Mobile Device Strategy encourages a highly mobile workforce for greater mission effectiveness,” said Barry […] More