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  • Federal Acquisition Vet Stephen Yuter Joins Red Team Consulting as Director of Capture Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal Acquisition Vet Stephen Yuter Joins Red Team Consulting as Director of Capture Strategy

    Stephen Yuter, formerly director of acquisition management and head of the contracting activity at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service, has joined Red Team Consulting as the director of capture strategy. Yuter will manage Red Team’s strategic capture projects and advise customers on the government contract evaluation process and on capture […] More

  • Textron Airborne Solutions Eyes Tactical Live Air Training Market; Russ Bartlett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Airborne Solutions Eyes Tactical Live Air Training Market; Russ Bartlett Comments

    Textron has changed the name of its aviation training business in an effort to focus on live tactical airborne training services for U.S. and allied military forces. Textron Advanced Aviation Training rebranded as Textron Airborne Solutions following the parent company’s acquisition of Airborne Tactical Advantage Co., Textron said Friday. Textron Airborne Solutions will integrate ATAC, […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico's Navy; Alan Prowse Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico’s Navy; Alan Prowse Comments

    Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide a UH-60M Black Hawk simulator to the Mexican navy as part of an effort to help train the nation’s aviators in the operations of the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The Mexican navy will use the Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator to help equip Black Hawk pilots with the skills […] More

  • ThreatTrack Security Unveils Managed Protection Service Offering via SecurView - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThreatTrack Security Unveils Managed Protection Service Offering via SecurView

    ThreatTrack Security has introduced a managed security service offering through its partnership with SecurView in an effort to help customers monitor and counter threats. The ThreatSecure Network as a Service offering works to identify and disrupt cyber attacks through real-time analysis of threats and irregular network activity, ThreatTrack said June 30. “Organizations are struggling to defend […] More

  • Mitre, University of Maryland Select 5 Recipients for Cybersecurity Research Grants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, University of Maryland Select 5 Recipients for Cybersecurity Research Grants

    The Mitre-operated National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center and the University System of Maryland have awarded $293,00 in total seed grants to five U.S. academic researchers to examine cybersecurity challenges. The grantees are George Karabatis and Adam Porter of the University of Maryland, Jim Jones of George Mason University, Ravi Sandhu of the University of Texas and Jeff Walker of the University of Alabama, Mitre […] More

  • Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $980,000 in funds to Virginia-based Ceres Nanosciences to assess methods for the detection of immune system markers with the use of the company’s sample processing technology. Ceres will work with Tufts University and George Mason University to adapt the Nanotrap sample processing technology for the capture of immune system […] More

  • General Motors, Bioservo Enter Robotic Glove Tech Licensing Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Motors, Bioservo Enter Robotic Glove Tech Licensing Agreement

    Bioservo Technologies has licensed a robotic glove technology built by General Motors and NASA with the intent to repurpose the device for healthcare and manufacturing applications. The licensing deal between the two companies allows Bioservo to integrate its Soft Extra Muscle technology to the battery-powered wearable RoboGlove in an effort to build a grasp assist device that will work to help address human operator […] More

  • 5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract to perform construction work in Guam. Global Engineering Services, M-80 Systems, Pacific Industrial Coatings, Pearl Construction Environmental Service and Relyant Global will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Navy said Wednesday. The multiple-award contract […] More

  • ICF Awarded 2 California DOT Environmental Services Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Awarded 2 California DOT Environmental Services Contracts

    California’s Transportation Department has awarded ICF International a pair of three-year contracts worth $13.6 million combined to provide environmental and biological support services for department’s district projects in the state. ICF said Friday it will perform on-call environmental services to support Caltrans’ transportation infrastructure development, construction and maintenance projects in District 8 as well as on-call biological services to the District 1 Willits Bypass project. […] More

  • CACI to Continue Dev't, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Continue Dev’t, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $37 million contract to continue its development and maintenance support services for the Defense Department‘s Oracle-developed enterprise resource planning application. CACI will deliver architecture, compliance and configuration management services for Oracle’s Global Model technology as part of the Defense Agencies Initiative’s efforts to transform DoD financial management and accounting, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • Steve Jurczyk: NASA Seeks University Partners to Complement Space Tech Mission Directorate Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Jurczyk: NASA Seeks University Partners to Complement Space Tech Mission Directorate Research Efforts

    NASA has asked for proposals from universities in search of ideas for multi-disciplinary university-led research efforts the agency deems Space Technology Research Institutes space technology mission directorate’s research grants and project opportunities. The space agency said Friday the Space Technology Research Institutes Appendix solicitation seeks STRIs to serve as a platform for coordination among experts from various fields in a single distributed research structure. NASA […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components

    Lockheed Martin has awarded multiple contracts to Triumph Group to provide structural and engine components for the F-35 Lightning II program. Triumph said Friday its precision components business will supply aircraft engine mounts, bulkheads, longerons and wing ribs to Lockheed through 2021. “The F-35 program has afforded us the opportunity to demonstrate that Triumph can compete on higher-level subassemblies,” said Rick Rosenjack, executive vice […] More