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  • GSA-D&B Partnership Expands Govt Spending Activity Info Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA-D&B Partnership Expands Govt Spending Activity Info Access

    The General Services Administration and Dun & Bradstreet have renegotiated their data collection contract to expand the use of federal government spending information. Kevin Youel Page, acting assistant commissioner of GSA’s Integrated Award Environment, wrote in a blog post posted Saturday that rights to proprietary D&B data stored in IAE systems have been expanded in efforts to help users conduct historical […] More

  • DHS, Washington State Agency Help Launch National Cyber Security Awareness Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS, Washington State Agency Help Launch National Cyber Security Awareness Event

    The Department of Homeland Security, Washington State office of cybersecurity and National Cyber Security Alliance will hold a public cyber preparedness and cybersecurity event from Oct. 4 to 5 in support of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2016. The two-day event will kick off this year’s NCSAM and focus on topics such as drones and autonomous vehicles, emergency management of critical […] More

  • Tiffany Nesbit, Douglas Sandklev Take VP Roles at Elbit Systems' US Arm; Raanan Horowitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiffany Nesbit, Douglas Sandklev Take VP Roles at Elbit Systems’ US Arm; Raanan Horowitz Comments

    Tiffany Nesbit, formerly director of engineering at Honeywell’s aerospace business, has joined Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary as vice president of engineering. Elbit Systems of America also named Douglas Sandklev, formerly technical director of training and simulation solutions at Lockheed Martin, as VP of technology and innovation, the company said Sunday. Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO […] More

  • Former DoD Acquisition Leader Kenneth Krieg Joins American Systems' Advisory Board; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DoD Acquisition Leader Kenneth Krieg Joins American Systems’ Advisory Board; Peter Smith Comments

    Former Defense Department acquisition leader Kenneth Krieg has joined the advisory board of government services contractor American Systems. American Systems said Monday Krieg will work with a group of former industry leaders and government officials to aid the company’s efforts to support government programs in the areas of test and evaluation; training; enterprise information technology; engineering and analysis; […] More

  • Life Length Receives CMS Certification, EU Grant for Biomarker Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Life Length Receives CMS Certification, EU Grant for Biomarker Study

    Telomere diagnostics firm Life Length has received an estimated $3.5 million grant from the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program to support the company’s clinical studies on a potential biomarker for cancer treatment. The Telomere Analysis Technology cellular health biomarker works to identify the biological health of cells, measure the effects of lifestyle programs and detect the risk and early onset of […] More

  • MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars

    Raytheon has received a contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to develop a transition-to-production process that will incorporate Gallium Nitride components onto existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. The company said Friday the initial effort will also support efforts to modernize ballistic missile defense radars through the transition from Gallium Arsenide to GaN technology which will work to boost […] More

  • 40 Firms Receive Cyber Threat Indicators Via DHS Info Sharing Network; Andy Ozment Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    40 Firms Receive Cyber Threat Indicators Via DHS Info Sharing Network; Andy Ozment Comments

    Approximately 40 private sector firms have started to receive data on cyber threat indicators from the Department of Homeland Security through the Automated Indicator Sharing network, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Nicole Ogrysko writes that one company has begun to secure and share information on cyber vulnerabilities with DHS through the AIS network. DHS introduced AIS […] More

  • Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS

    Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has signed an initial payload agreement with Neumann Space to develop a future Bartolomeo platform for International Space Station. Airbus said Thursday the Bartolomeo platform will give private and institutional users access to the ISS on commercial terms with a payload mission service designed to support clients in areas such as Earth observation, technology […] More

  • Boeing Installs Simulation Training Equipment for NASA Starliner Crew - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Installs Simulation Training Equipment for NASA Starliner Crew

    Boeing has outfitted NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with new simulation training equipment to support the crew of the company-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The company’s Crew Part-Task Trainers are designed to simulate various Starliner mission aspects, NASA said in a blog post published Wednesday. JSC engineers will manage the simulations as astronauts rehearse Starliner missions, the space agency added. Suni Williams and Bob […] More

  • CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure

    A consortium led by CSRA has expanded a supercomputing cluster at the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Information Technology in an effort to help NIH researchers process and analyze large data sets. The company and its partners added the latest computing power increment to the Biowulf infrastructure that NIH uses to perform computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and biomedical research projects, […] More

  • Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI

    The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

  • Harris Ships 1st GPS OCX Satellite Receiver, Encryptors to Raytheon Under Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Ships 1st GPS OCX Satellite Receiver, Encryptors to Raytheon Under Subcontract

    Harris Corp. has shipped the first of 34 satellite receivers for the GPS Operational Control System to Raytheon after the former company completed an electromagnetic interference test of the initial hardware, Space News reported Thursday. The Florida-based communications equipment provider also delivered to Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business 14 ground encryptors that will work […] More