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  • NIST Vet Mary Saunders Named ANSI Govt Relations, Public Policy VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Vet Mary Saunders Named ANSI Govt Relations, Public Policy VP

    Mary Saunders, associate director for management resources at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been named vice president of government relations and public policy at the American National Standards Institute effective March 1, 2017. She currently oversees all NIST-wide institutional support and administrative offices and their functions such as workforce management, information technology, accounting and finance, […] More

  • MBDA, Prodintec, European Defense Agency Partner on New Additive Manufacturing Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA, Prodintec, European Defense Agency Partner on New Additive Manufacturing Project

    The European Defense Agency has partnered with MBDA and the European research center Fundacion Prodintec to explore areas where additive manufacturing can be applied to help boost Europe’s defense industry. EDA said Dec. 22 the project aims to raise awareness and determine feasibility of how additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology applies to military contexts. The […] More

  • DARPA Launches Project to Help Identify Potential Terrorists Through Social Media - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Launches Project to Help Identify Potential Terrorists Through Social Media

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a project that looks to develop an automated software designed to monitor publicly available information on social media to identify potential terrorist threats, The National Interest reported Thursday. Michael Peck writes the Force Protection in the Online Information Environment project aims to examine social media content to determine within foreign […] More

  • HPE's Earl Matthews: Agencies Should Adopt Situational Awareness Model for Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Earl Matthews: Agencies Should Adopt Situational Awareness Model for Cybersecurity

    Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has said public sector organizations should evolve from a continuous diagnostics and mitigation approach to a situational awareness model that can foster cybersecurity collaboration. Matthews wrote in a blog article published Sunday in Signal Magazine that a cyber SA model can be based on analysis of sensors, files and web objects as well […] More

  • Getac Receives S410 Notebook Order From US Army; Scott Shainman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Getac Receives S410 Notebook Order From US Army; Scott Shainman Comments

    Getac has received an order for 3,750 S410 semi-rugged notebook computers from the U.S. Army‘s product management team for Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care. The MC4 team will adopt the notebooks to capture medical treatment data in operational environments and provide a lifelong electronic health record to service members, Getac said Tuesday. Scott Shainman, president of Getac, said the […] More

  • SuperCom to Help South American Country Implement Land & Geographic Info System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SuperCom to Help South American Country Implement Land & Geographic Info System

    SuperCom has won an 18-month, $9 million contract to provide a web-based land and geographical information system to a government customer in South America. The company said Friday it will help the client migrate and implement SuperCom’s cloud-based Land and Geographical Registration and Information Management System. Arie Trabelsi, SuperCom’s president and CEO, said the customer will company will adopt  […] More

  • Airbus to Supply H145M Helicopters to Serbia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Supply H145M Helicopters to Serbia

    Airbus will produce and deliver nine H145M helicopters and associated logistics support to Serbia’s government under a contract signed with the country’s interior and defense ministries. The defense ministry said Wednesday the helicopters will help the Serbian air force and police conduct transport, search and rescue, combat, medical evacuation, surveillance and security missions. Airbus will also provide spare parts, tools […] More

  • SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites

    SpaceX has said it plans to launch on Jan. 8 the first batch of satellites for Iridium Communications’ NEXT constellation after it determined the cause of the Sept. 1 explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Washington Post reported Monday. Christian Davenport writes the Elon Musk-owned company found that the explosion was caused by a pressure vessel in the […] More

  • Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract

    Microsoft has secured a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide consulting support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s information technology network. The Defense Department said Friday that Microsoft will help the Air Force mature the company-designed technologies the military branch purchased under the a joint enterprise license agreement. Work will occur at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Alabama through Dec. 31, 2020. […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $61 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the military branch’s F-22 air vehicles. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed’s aeronautics business will provide depot throughput, assess analytical conditions, repair inlet coating and support radar cross section Marietta turntable under the modification. Work will take […] More

  • ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments

    ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company’s campaign development, creative, digital advertising, social marketing and media, stakeholder and traditional engagement expertise to facilitate  multiple projects such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, ICF said Friday. The first task order covers support for tobacco […] More

  • Boeing, SpaceX, OneWeb Seek to Provide Broadband Access Via Satellite Constellations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, SpaceX, OneWeb Seek to Provide Broadband Access Via Satellite Constellations

    SpaceX, Boeing and OneWeb have announced plans to launch satellite constellations that will work to operate in low-Earth orbit and offer high-speed broadband service worldwide, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Samantha Masunaga writes the $224.6-billion broadband industry dominated by cable and telecommunications firms is likely to face a challenge with the potential launch of such […] More