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  • Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments

    Harris has received a potential five-year, $43 million contract to continue to help the National Cancer Institute‘s cancer research center manage data under NCI’s intramural clinical trials program. The company said Monday it will perform clinical data management, quality assurance and control, clinical audit, research databases and systems update and clinical trials safety and compliance monitoring services for the institute. […] More

  • DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations

    The Defense Department has granted regional F-35 maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade capacity to partner nations that will support 65 out of 774 repairables outside the continental U.S. Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, said Monday the U.K. will oversee 48 of the 65 F-35 components while Netherlands will handle 14 and Australia will manage three of the components for global […] More

  • ASRC Federal's Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASRC Federal’s Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army

    ASRC Federal‘s Vistronix subsidiary has secured a three-year, $14.1 million contract for engineering and technical work on the U.S. Army‘s wideband controls systems. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $1.3 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal 2016 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Friday. Vistronix will perform […] More

  • Real-Time Innovations Gets DOE Funds for Smart Grid Security R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Real-Time Innovations Gets DOE Funds for Smart Grid Security R&D

    Real-Time Innovations has received funds from the Energy Department to continue research on smart grid security systems that apply Data-Distribution Service standard. RTI said Monday it will collaborate with DoE and use the company’s Connext DDS real-time commercial connectivity software to develop a platform that could potentially secure the next-generation U.S. smart grid’s cyberphysical communications infrastructure. The company added it also […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity

    The U.S. Air Force looks to develop new approaches to information fusion and analysis as well as new techniques to provide intelligence to decisionmakers using service-oriented architecture, open standards and analytical algorithms. A broad agency announcement published Wednesday on FedBizOpps calls for analytic services that can help the military branch understand data sources such as multi-intelligence and source fusion. The service branch also […] More

  • Pierre Chao, Byron Callan Talk Industry Investments in Defense Tech R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pierre Chao, Byron Callan Talk Industry Investments in Defense Tech R&D

    Pierre Chao, an industry analyst and founding partner of Renaissance Strategic Advisors, has said many investors remain hesitant to make investments in the defense market due to lack of incentives, the National Defense magazine reported Monday. Sandra I. Erwin writes Chao said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted forum that defense contractors consider […] More

  • ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite

    The launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites has been rescheduled from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, pending clearance from the Eastern Range. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from space launch complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

  • Versar-Johnson Controls JV Lands Air Force Building Renovation Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar-Johnson Controls JV Lands Air Force Building Renovation Contract

    A joint venture of Versar and Johnson Controls‘ federal systems subsidiary has received a $15.5 million contract to repair and renovate the three-story Building 1108 at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. Versar said Wednesday its engineering construction management group will perform  design, permitting, renovation and construction services under the contract. Work also includes commissioning of an administrative building that will […] More

  • Intel Introduces New Drone Tech for Light Shows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Introduces New Drone Tech for Light Shows

    Intel has unveiled a new unmanned aerial system designed to perform specifically for light shows in a push to redefine entertainment and create new experiences under the night sky. Anil Nanduri, Intel vice president and general manager of unmanned aviation systems for the Perceptual Computing Group, wrote in a blog post published Friday 500 Shooting Star […] More

  • Cybric Adds Jim Bandanza, Michael Brown & John DeLong to Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cybric Adds Jim Bandanza, Michael Brown & John DeLong to Advisory Board

    Cybric has named cybersecurity veterans Jim Bandanza, Michael Brown and John DeLong as members of its advisory board to help develop and expand the company’s automation and vulnerability platform. Bandanza, DeLong and Brown will work to guide the company’s executive and technical teams as part of the advisory board that includes former and current security, artificial intelligence, […] More

  • Alion Science's Software Development, Services Practices Receives CMMI Level 3 Rating - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Science’s Software Development, Services Practices Receives CMMI Level 3 Rating

    Alion Sciences and Technology has received the Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3 rating for the company’sd software development and services practices. Software Quality Center conducted the appraisal and awarded the company the rating for both the CMMI Development software engineering standards and CMMI Services + Service System Development technical services model, Alion said Monday. The appraisal assessed […] More

  • Riverbed's Davis Johnson: Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking Could Support Digital Transformation Demands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking Could Support Digital Transformation Demands

    Davis Johnson, U.S. public sector vice president at Riverbed Technology, has said software-defined wide-area networking could support federal agencies’ digital transformation initiatives amid challenges posed by legacy information technology. Johnson wrote in a guest post published Thursday on GCN that SD-WAN works to provide agility, automation, visibility and flexibility to support the needs of key areas such as DevOps, customer experiences, […] More