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  • Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers

    Accenture has unveiled a new cloud-based platform developed to assist wealth management firms that attempt to comply with the Labor Department‘s fiduciary rule for advisers that oversee retirement accounts that will take effect on April 2017. The company said Wednesday the Accenture Wealth Management Compliance Solution for Salesforce will work with the latter’s Financial Services Cloud created to transform the client-advisor relationship for the […] More

  • Integrity Applications to Provide Technical, Logistics Services to DIA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Integrity Applications to Provide Technical, Logistics Services to DIA

    Integrity Applications Inc. has won a potential five-year, $50.9 million contract to provide non-personal acquisition, technical, logistical and administrative support services to the Defense Intelligence Agency. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract contains a one base year and four option years and work will occur in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region through Sept. 27, 2021. The Virginia Contracting Activity received […] More

  • PapGene Aims to Commercialize Bladder Cancer Surveillance Test With NIH Contract Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PapGene Aims to Commercialize Bladder Cancer Surveillance Test With NIH Contract Funds

    Baltimore, Maryland-based biotechnology company PapGene has secured a potential $2.2 million contract from a National Institutes of Health center to study and commercialize a recurrent bladder cancer surveillance test. PapGene said Tuesday it will receive $299,824 funds from NIH’s National Cancer Institute under the first phase of the Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research contract to demonstrate the accuracy and clinical validity of […] More

  • Accenture-Atos-Safran Team to Support eu-LISA Visa Information & Biometric Matching Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture-Atos-Safran Team to Support eu-LISA Visa Information & Biometric Matching Systems

    A team comprised of Accenture, Safran‘s identity and security business and Atos has secured spots on a potential six-year contract from the European agency for the operational management of large-scale information technology systems in the area of freedom, security and justice. The consortium will provide application and infrastructure support for the E.U. Visa Information System and the Biometric Matching System in an […] More

  • HITRUST Integrates Cyber Threat Detection Platform With DHS' Automated Indicator Sharing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HITRUST Integrates Cyber Threat Detection Platform With DHS’ Automated Indicator Sharing Program

    The Health Information Trust Alliance has integrated its cyber threat detection and response platform with a Department of Homeland Security-run threat indicator exchange program. HITRUST said Wednesday the bi-directional integration of Cyber Threat XChange and DHS’ Automated Indicator Sharing Program seeks to provide healthcare organizations access to threat intelligence from the alliance and federal government. “In addition to helping CTX participants overcome technical challenges, […] More

  • Boeing & Harris Partner to Build New Military Aircraft Avionics Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing & Harris Partner to Build New Military Aircraft Avionics Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Boeing and Harris have partnered to develop new avionics technology in an effort to support current and future types of military aircraft during aviators’ missions. Harris said Wednesday the companies will build core mission processing architectures that will work to manage multiple aircraft functions such as as communications, sensors, navigation and displays. Harris will produce the design for the […] More

  • NIST Seeks Impact Studies on Federal Tech Transfer Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Impact Studies on Federal Tech Transfer Programs

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Journal of Technology Transfer have launched a new prize challenge that seeks participants to develop impact studies on technology transferred from federal laboratories. Interested parties will write a paper that describes the economic and/or societal impacts of technology created in federal labs and transferred outside of those facilities, […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Marlin, Vector Hawk Unmanned Vehicles at Navy Tech Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Marlin, Vector Hawk Unmanned Vehicles at Navy Tech Exercise

    Lockheed Martin demonstrated its two unmanned vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Navy Technology Exercise held in August at Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Both Vector Hawk and Marlin vehicles worked together with Submaran to perform situational awareness functions through transmission of operational status data to the ground control station during the ANTX event, Lockheed […] More

  • Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program

    Esri will participate in a program that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service aim to prepare U.S. citizens and bolster infrastructure against extreme weather threats. Esri said Tuesday the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador program collaborates with various organizations in an effort to establish preparedness for scenarios during extreme weather. “Our goal is to work with WRN Ambassadors in a whole community […] More

  • D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico

    D-Wave Systems will unveil additional details of its latest quantum computing platform that features a new 2000-qubit processor at an inaugural users group conference Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. D-Wave said Tuesday the processor has doubled the amount of qubits from the previous D-Wave 2X system and introduces control features that work to configure the quantum computational process. Jeremy […] More

  • ULA, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Sign Cooperative R&D Agreement for Vulcan Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Sign Cooperative R&D Agreement for Vulcan Rocket

    United Launch Alliance has signed a cooperative research-and-development agreement with the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center in support of efforts to certify the company’s future Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle for national security space missions. The Air Force said Tuesday the cooperative, jointly-written agreement will stay in effect until all non-recurring design validation activities for the launch vehicle […] More

  • Artis to Install, Evaluate Active Protection System on Army Fighting Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Artis to Install, Evaluate Active Protection System on Army Fighting Vehicle

    Artis has secured a potential $32 million contract to integrate and characterize a  company-built active protection system onto a fighting vehicle of the U.S. Army. The company said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate the performance of the Iron Curtain APS in multiple scenarios under the first phase of the contract. The Army can also request for additional testing and low-risk development efforts based […] More