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  • DARPA Selects Vencore for DDoS Defense Program Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Vencore for DDoS Defense Program Research

    A business unit of Chantilly, Virginia-based defense contractor Vencore has received an estimated $7.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research on a computer network defense program. Vencore Labs will provide research, development, test and evaluation services for the DARPA’s Extreme DDoS Defense program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DARPA will obligate $2.1 million from fiscal 2015 […] More

  • Booz Allen to Help NASA Manage Aviation, Railroad Incident Reporting Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Help NASA Manage Aviation, Railroad Incident Reporting Systems

    NASA has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a potential five-year, $33.9 million contract to provide operations and maintenance services for the agency’s aviation and railroad incident reporting programs. Booz Allen will support the Aviation Safety Reporting System and the Confidential Close Call Reporting System for the agency as well as help research and develop similar systems, NASA said Thursday. The company will […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas

    Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new facility at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas to provide engine repair support for the T-45 trainer jet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday the service delivery center will also provide service operations support for the Rolls-Royce-built F405 Adour engines of the aircraft. A BAE Systems–Boeing partnership […] More

  • Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments

    Airbus has selected Flatirons Solutions to provide software for work to produce and maintain the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for Denmark. Flatirons’ CORENA software will be incorporated into the Danish Fighter Replacement Program to fulfill the requirements for full content lifecycle management, Flatiron said Thursday. Geoffrey Godet, Flatirons CEO, said the company will extend its partnership with Airbus […] More

  • Avaya, India Telecom Minister to Discuss Rural Area Connectivity Expansion Plans; KT Rama Rao Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, India Telecom Minister to Discuss Rural Area Connectivity Expansion Plans; KT Rama Rao Comments

    Avaya has begun negotiations with India’s information technology and telecommunications minister for a possible digital and connectivity expansion in a rural state. The company’s “Digital Telangana” plan has a goal to will deliver connectivity to 8.5 million households — equivalent to more than 32 million people — in the state and surrounding rural areas through the end of […] More

  • Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director

    Nutanix has appointed Sean McLaughlin to oversee the growth efforts of the company’s federal civilian agency business as director for civilian sales. McLaughlin’s new role entails collaborating with customers and industry partners to utilize the enterprise cloud platform toward a shared services strategy, targeting Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scores and building up data center environments, Nutanix said […] More

  • Former DARPA & Google Exec Regina Dugan to Lead New Facebook Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DARPA & Google Exec Regina Dugan to Lead New Facebook Group

    Regina Dugan, formerly advanced technology and products team lead at Google, has joined Facebook to lead the social networking site’s future advanced products development group, Forbes reported Wednesday. Miguel Helft writes Dugan oversaw Google’s projects to develop modular smartphones, three-dimensional mapping devices and smart fabrics since 2012. She will lead Facebook’s new team called “Building 8” […] More

  • Retired Marine Al Gourlay Joins JDog Joint Chiefs Advisory Board; Jerry Flanagan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Marine Al Gourlay Joins JDog Joint Chiefs Advisory Board; Jerry Flanagan Comments

    Paoli, Pennsylvania-based waste management service company JDog Junk Removal & Hauling has appointed Al Gourlay to its joint chiefs advisory board. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran joins the team of advisers comprised of military veterans and entrepreneurs who provide counsel to the company and its franchisees, JDog Junk Removal said Wednesday. Jerry Flanagan, JDog founder and CEO, said […] More

  • David Stoudt Joins Booz Allen as Senior Executive Adviser, Directed Energy Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Stoudt Joins Booz Allen as Senior Executive Adviser, Directed Energy Fellow

    David Stoudt, formerly senior technologist for directed energy at the U.S. Navy, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior executive adviser and fellow for the company’s directed energy program. In his new role, Stoudt will focus on providing thought leadership in engineering, science and C4ISR, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Trey Obering, executive vice president for […] More

  • SAP, White House to Collaborate on Computer Science, STEM Education Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP, White House to Collaborate on Computer Science, STEM Education Program

    SAP will collaborate with the White House on an initiative that seeks to help K-12 students develop skills in the field of business and computer science. The company will award $2.4 million in grants to nonprofit institutions to help promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics and computer science education to at least 700,000 K-12 students […] More

  • HughesNet Provides Prize for National 4-H Council's 'Youth in Action' STEM Winner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HughesNet Provides Prize for National 4-H Council’s ‘Youth in Action’ STEM Winner

    The National 4-H Council has selected a student from McLean County in Illinois as the winner of the 2016 Youth in Action award for science, technology, engineering and math, which is partly sponsored by Hughes Network Systems. Winner Thaddeus Hughes will receive $10,000 in prizes consisting of a higher education scholarship and additional STEM programming for his hometown from […] More