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  • Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments

    Battelle has received more than $800,000 in federal grants from the National Institute of Justice to assess and evaluate new tools for probing DNA evidence. The company will test instruments, laboratory materials and software that forensic investigators use to obtain biological evidence based on the tools’ next-generation sequencing, Battelle said Oct. 9. “Next-generation sequencing will significantly expand our technical capabilities to support forensic […] More

  • Tracie Cook: Veris Group Selects JAMIS ERP Platform for GovCon Services Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tracie Cook: Veris Group Selects JAMIS ERP Platform for GovCon Services Mgmt

    Veris Group has chosen JAMIS Software to provide an enterprise resource planning system intended to help the cybersecurity firm manage corporate functions and deliver services to public and private sector clients. JAMIS Software intends for its Prime ERP platform to help Veris access real-time business data as well as address operational efficiency and transparency issues, […] More

  • Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office

    Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments

    A Mercury Systems subsidiary has received a $2.6 million order to build digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. Mercury Defense Systems booked the order for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015 and the contract is a follow-on order under a five-year agreement with the Navy, Mercury Systems said. “The continued technology advancements are designed to keep pace with the […] More

  • Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through 'EDGE' Consortium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through ‘EDGE’ Consortium

    A Cubic subsidiary that builds game-based training platforms has joined an industry alliance designed to encourage collaboration among technology developers, universities and government agencies. The EDGE Innovation Network offers a collaborative environment for organizations to build new tools to help first responders, warfighters and law enforcement officers perform their missions, Cubic said Wednesday. Bill Rebarick, […] More

  • Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

  • Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation

    Lockheed Martin is developing a small reactor the company believes has potential to generate power through nuclear fusion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Tom McGuire, a program lead at Lockheed’s Skunk Works unit, said the organization seeks to attract government, academic and commercial partners for its compact fusion reactor project. Skunk Works conducted a study […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas

    Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric has chosen MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to provide Ku-band and Ka-band antenna subsystems as part of a new contract worth $10 million. MDA said Thursday that the antennas will equip a commercial telecommunications satellite as the company works to expand its multibeam communications portfolio in the Japanese market. MDA is a communications and information company that […] More

  • Raytheon Delivers 10th MDA AN/TPY-2 Radar; Dave Gulla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Delivers 10th MDA AN/TPY-2 Radar; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has delivered the tenth installment of its AN/TPY-2 radar for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System program. The company said Tuesday the current project was completed half a year ahead of its scheduled delivery, with two additional radars under current production. The mobile X-band defense radar works to identify and track ballistic […] More

  • Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center

    Schafer‘s government services sector business will support Advantage SCI as a subcontractor on the Technical Acquisition and Business Support Services contract for the Department of Homeland Security. The company will provide 24-7 watch officer services for the Joint Analysis Center of DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, expanding its current support for information analysis at JAC, Schafer said Thursday. Ramesh […] More

  • Internet of Things Reference Model Unwrapped at World Forum; Wim Elfrink Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Internet of Things Reference Model Unwrapped at World Forum; Wim Elfrink Comments

    Industry has unveiled an Internet of Things reference model to help define the technology, identify its challenges and standardize IoT terminology for developers, chief information officers and IT leaders. The Internet of Things World Forum Steering Committee drafted the framework, unwrapped at this week’s Cisco-hosted IoTWF in Chicago, in a bid to push IoT adoption […] More