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  • Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project

    Sutter Health and Validic have teamed up to support a federal pilot project that aims  to identify strategies for the delivery of patient-generated health data to medical service  providers and researchers. Validic said Wednesday results of the collaborative effort will help inform government policy and provide insight on how the industry can implement remotely-collected patient health information in the U.S. The […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Conducts Weapons Exercise on Scorpion Jet

    A Textron subsidiary has deployed three types of weapon systems through its Scorpion jet as part of a weapons testing program that occurred Oct. 10-Oct. 14 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Wednesday its Textron AirLand arm worked with Naval Sea Systems Command and the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base to test Scorpion’s close air support function through […] More

  • NineSigma Lands GSA Contract for Prize-Based Innovation Contest Design, Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NineSigma Lands GSA Contract for Prize-Based Innovation Contest Design, Mgmt Services

    NineSigma has received a five-year contract from the General Services Administration to provide support services to federal agencies in the development and management of prize-based innovation challenge projects. GSA awarded the contract through the 00CORP Professional Services Schedule, NineSigma said Wednesday. Denys Resnick, chief growth officer at NineSigma, said a prize-based innovation contest is an approach […] More

  • DHS to Integrate General Atomics' Takeoff, Landing System in Predator B Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Integrate General Atomics’ Takeoff, Landing System in Predator B Fleet

    The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a new flight software program that will work to deploy General Atomics unit’s proprietary takeoff and landing system for the unmanned Predator B Guardian aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems‘ Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability system works to support the safety and efficiency of Predator B crews, the company said Tuesday. GS-ASI CEO Linden […] More

  • Technica to Provide Cybersecurity Support for Air Force Weapons, Operating Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technica to Provide Cybersecurity Support for Air Force Weapons, Operating Systems

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Technica a potential four-year, $22 million task order to help the military branch test the cyber readiness and security of its weapons and operating systems. Technica said Wednesday it will provide airborne networking, systems, processes and operations and network defense support services to the Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Center-Experimental in Virginia. The company will also […] More

  • Unisys to Support Philippine Civil Registry System Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Support Philippine Civil Registry System Modernization Project

    Unisys has received a 12-year contract from the Philippines’ statistics authority to provide digital government services intended to help modernize the country’s civil registry system. The company said Wednesday it will manage a process to originate, authenticate, secure and issue civil registry documents to citizens as well as lead a public-private partnership to design, develop, operate and maintain the modernized […] More

  • Lockheed's NY Facility Adopts Lithium Energy Storage System; Frank Armijo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s NY Facility Adopts Lithium Energy Storage System; Frank Armijo Comments

    Lockheed Martin has implemented an energy storage system at the company’s facility in Syracuse, New York, and selected electric utility firm ENGIE to support operation of the system. The GridStar lithium storage is designed to help Lockheed reduce power consumption and carbon emissions as well as to provide energy supply to the New York Independent System Operator, […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in MapD Database, Visualization Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in MapD Database, Visualization Platform

    Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel and MapD have partnered to update certain features of the latter company’s graphics processing unit-powered database and visualization platform. MapD said Wednesday it also raised Series A capital funds from IQT, Nvidia, Vanedge Capital, Verizon Wireless and GV, formerly called Google Ventures. “CPU-bound database and analytics systems have struggled to keep pace with the massive growth […] More

  • AMMROC Implements Juniper's Network Mgmt, Security Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AMMROC Implements Juniper’s Network Mgmt, Security Platforms

    A United Arab Emirates-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services provider has developed a network infrastructure based on Juniper Networks-built switching, security and network management technology. Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Center adopted Juniper’s  SRX Series Services Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches and Junos Space Management Platform to manage the performance, scalability and capacity of AMMROC  operations, Juniper […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on Vertical Take-Off & Landing Small Drone Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on Vertical Take-Off & Landing Small Drone Sources

    The Department of the Navy has begun its search for potential industry sources of a small unmanned aerial system designed to perform vertical take-off and landing operations. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 12 says the VTOL-based small UAS will work to help the U.S. Marine Corps perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in any environmental conditions. […] More

  • Juliet Marine Systems to Build Submersible USV; Gregory Sancoff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juliet Marine Systems to Build Submersible USV; Gregory Sancoff Comments

    Juliet Marine Systems has announced that it plans to develop a configurable submersible unmanned surface vehicle based on the company’s existing vessel design. JMS said Wednesday it will build the Guardian USV as a modification of the company’s GHOST vessel for manned or unmanned surface and subsurface operations. The high-performance watercraft maker developed the GHOST small waterplane-area twin-hull vessel for eight […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Demos Small Aerosonde HQ Unmanned Aircraft to Potential Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Demos Small Aerosonde HQ Unmanned Aircraft to Potential Customers

    Textron‘s unmanned systems business held an inaugural customer demonstration of a small unmanned aircraft system designed to combine vertical takeoff-and-landing capacity of a multirotor platform with the speed of the company’s Aerosonde fixed-wing aircraft offering. The company said Wednesday it demonstrated the Aerosonde HQ at the Textron Systems Unmanned Systems Service and Support Center as well as showcased the system’s transition […] More