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  • Ball Aerospace Concludes Testing on SSC's 1st WSF-M Next-Gen Environmental Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Concludes Testing on SSC’s 1st WSF-M Next-Gen Environmental Satellite

    Ball Aerospace has concluded the testing of the first space vehicle for Space Systems Command’s next-generation operational environmental satellite system. The company said Thursday the Weather System Follow–on–Microwave satellite is scheduled for launch in early 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and will provide the Department of Defense with space-based environmental monitoring capabilities. […] More

  • Former DOD CIO Dana Deasy Joins SAIC Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DOD CIO Dana Deasy Joins SAIC Board

    Dana Deasy, a former Department of Defense chief information officer and Wash100 Award winner, has been selected to join Science Applications International Corp.‘s board of directors. As a member, he will serve on the board’s Risk Oversight Committee, and his appointment raises the board’s total membership to 11, the Reston, Virginia-based company announced on Friday. “We are delighted […] More

  • LMI Books TRANSCOM Contract for Campaign Planning, Support; Jon Baba Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Books TRANSCOM Contract for Campaign Planning, Support; Jon Baba Quoted

    U.S. Transportation Command’s Strategic Plans, Policy and Logistics Directorate has selected LMI to support strategic campaign planning for global deployment, distribution and capability development over a five-year period. LMI said Thursday it will help assess the Department of Defense’s Functional Campaign Plan for Global Deployment and Distribution and TRANSCOM’s Combatant Command Campaign Plan under a […] More

  • OPM Extends Program Support Agreements With Excella, NTIS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OPM Extends Program Support Agreements With Excella, NTIS

    Excella and the National Technical Information Service, through their joint venture partnership, will continue providing support services for the programs of the Office of Personnel Management. The 12-month award totals over $13 million and comprises a series of agreements to sustain and expand Excella’s 18-year service to OPM, the company said Wednesday. The agreements include […] More

  • Leidos Deploys DOD Biometrics System to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Deploys DOD Biometrics System to Cloud

    Leidos has assisted the Department of Defense in enabling a cloud-based, fully automated biometrics platform in an effort to boost the system availability and performance for warfighters and other stakeholders. The company said Wednesday it has completed the cloud implementation of DOD’s Automated Biometrics Information System via the Biometrics Enabling Capability, Increment One contract. Through BEC-1, […] More

  • Navy Veteran Vince Dova Named Cyemptive Technologies' VP of Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Veteran Vince Dova Named Cyemptive Technologies’ VP of Security

    Vince Dova, a retired U.S. Navy commander and former branch chief for cyber policy and capabilities at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has joined Cyemptive Technologies as vice president of security. He will oversee the development of organizational and technical governance framework to ensure the secure delivery of cybersecurity products and services to Cyemptive’s customers […] More

  • RTX, 2 Other Companies to Help DARPA Develop Airborne Wireless Power Transfer System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RTX, 2 Other Companies to Help DARPA Develop Airborne Wireless Power Transfer System

    RTX, Draper and Beam Co. have won contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design relay technologies to serve as the foundation of an airborne wireless energy distribution concept. DARPA said Thursday the three companies will develop conceptual designs of the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay and perform benchtop tests under the POWER […] More

  • Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System Enters Phase 2 of Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System Enters Phase 2 of Development

    The updated version of the U.S. Army’s new augmented reality headset will enter the second stage of development following the completion of the user assessment phase conducted by the Program Executive Office Soldier, Army Times reported Thursday. The 1.2 prototype version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System was evaluated to assess its navigation tools, weapons […] More

  • GE Aerospace to Develop Digital Architecture, Other Components for Bell's Army FLRAA Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Aerospace to Develop Digital Architecture, Other Components for Bell’s Army FLRAA Platform

    Textron’s Bell subsidiary has chosen GE Aerospace to build data infrastructure components for a new U.S. Army tiltrotor platform called the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft. The components will form part of an open avionics system to be integrated into the V-280 Valor, which won the FLRAA competition in December last year, GE Aerospace said […] More

  • Cloudera Recognizes Carahsoft as Public Sector Partner of the Year; Rob Carey Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera Recognizes Carahsoft as Public Sector Partner of the Year; Rob Carey Quoted

    Cloudera presented Carahsoft Technology with the 2023 Public Sector Partner of the Year award, marking the second consecutive time the information technology services provider secured the recognition.  The Reston, Virginia-based company said Thursday the award was given during Cloudera’s annual partner kickoff gathering in recognition of its sales and marketing achievements. Rob Carey, president of Cloudera […] More

  • 3 Landmark Ways the DOD Is 'Taking Critical Steps' to Accelerate AI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3 Landmark Ways the DOD Is ‘Taking Critical Steps’ to Accelerate AI

    It’s been made clear over the past couple of years that artificial intelligence is of primary concern to the Department of Defense. In Feb. 2022, it famously stood up the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which consolidated and united several disparate functions that dealt with AI and autonomy throughout the department. But in order […] More

  • BAE Tests Updated F-35 Vehicle Management Computer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Tests Updated F-35 Vehicle Management Computer

    BAE Systems has modernized and demonstrated a vehicle management computer for all three variants of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft during flight tests that occurred at two military installations. The VMC was updated to improve the jet’s computer performance, boost safety and availability, and address obsolescence and maintenance requirements, BAE said Wednesday. Computer features include […] More