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  • ECS to Help Army Develop Simulation, Training Tech; Waymon Armstrong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS to Help Army Develop Simulation, Training Tech; Waymon Armstrong Comments

    Engineering and Computer Simulations has received two contracts from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to research, build and demonstrate simulation and training technologies. The Simulation, Training and Engineering Services initiative aims to create training and simulation systems intended to adapt to varying Army requirements over time, ECS said Friday. ECS will produce simulation platforms for medical […] More

  • Versar to Provide Operations, Engineering Services to Army Reserve Support Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar to Provide Operations, Engineering Services to Army Reserve Support Command

    Versar has secured a five-year, $37 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide operations, plans, engineering and environmental support for the U.S. Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command. Versar said Tuesday its professional services group will perform support services across the 88th RSC’s 19-state area of responsibility. Tony Otten, Versar CEO, said the […] More

  • CB&I Lands $75M Contract to Help Modernize Infrastructure for Arnold Air Base Test Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CB&I Lands $75M Contract to Help Modernize Infrastructure for Arnold Air Base Test Center

    CB&I has secured a multi-year, $75 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to restore, modernize and sustain plants and infrastructure at a military air base in Tullahoma, Tennessee. The company said Tuesday the project will work to support the research, development, test and evaluation operations of the Air Force Test Center located at Arnold AF Base. Chip Ray, president of CB&I’s […] More

  • Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development

    Phacil has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s efforts in services and service system development. Arlington, Virginia-based information technology company Phacil said Tuesday Abridge Technology conducted the appraisal based on Phacil’s program support, personnel management, software development and help desk support for the U.S. Forest Service’s Resource Ordering and Status System. Phacil added […] More

  • Kevin McDonald Joins Chemring's Ordnance Subsidiary as Programs VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin McDonald Joins Chemring’s Ordnance Subsidiary as Programs VP

    Kevin McDonald, former vice president of operations at National Technical Systems, has been appointed vice president of programs at Chemring Group subsidiary Chemring Ordnance. Chemring said Tuesday McDonald previously served as senior general manager for General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems large caliber operations business with responsibility over a demilitarization center and two government-owned, contractor-operated facilities. His career at General Dynamics also includes roles as program manager of the 120mm […] More

  • JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments

    JDog Junk Removal & Hauling has launched a new branch of its franchise JDog Services to perform government-contracted jobs after the company received a Veteran-Owned Small Business designation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. JDog Services will provide waste management services for the government in various territories across the country, JDog said Tuesday. “Receiving government-contracted […] More

  • Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development

    Hawaii Biotech Inc. has been selected to develop a vaccine against chikungunya virus under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The biotechnology company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Baylor College of Medicine on the project. David Clements, director of […] More

  • DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments

    DLT Solutions and FinalCode have teamed up to provide file collaboration and sharing security platforms to public sector clients. FinalCode said Tuesday it will integrate its file security-based digital rights management platform with DLT’s portfolio of information security tools. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity for DLT, said the combination of products as a result […] More

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • Aerospace Corp. Aims to Increase Position, Navigation & Timing Service Resiliency Via New Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Corp. Aims to Increase Position, Navigation & Timing Service Resiliency Via New Study

    The Aerospace Corp. has launched a study that aims to make position, navigation and timing services more resilient through the development of a user-device platform that will work to combine PNT signals from multiple sources. The nonprofit organization said Monday it will use an open-source method to develop a user-device system designed to collect PNT […] More

  • US Navy, Canada's Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, Canada’s Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has signed an agreement with Canada’s defense department to establish the first-ever foreign military sales transaction for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system. The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office plans to deliver one Blackjack UAS system to Canada’s army in 2017, the Navy said Monday. Marine Corps Col. Eldon Metzger, PMA-263 […] More