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  • Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero

    Ohio-based defense electronics supplier Pole/Zero has received a six-year, $53.4 million contract to provide products for the communications suite of P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol planes operated by the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international customers. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers the procurement of 346 communication trays and antenna interface units, the Department of Defense said Monday. […] More

  • Proofpoint's Phil Fuster: Continuous Risk Profiling Can Aid DOD Cyber Defenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Proofpoint’s Phil Fuster: Continuous Risk Profiling Can Aid DOD Cyber Defenses

    Phil Fuster, vice president of federal sales at Proofpoint, said he believes the Department of Defense should create and maintain a risk profile on their workforce, suppliers and contractors in order to be nimble and secure from cyberattacks. He told DefenseScoop in an interview that having a continuous risk profile specific to the DOD’s staff, […] More

  • Sue Gordon, 6 Others Appointed to DOD Defense Innovation Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sue Gordon, 6 Others Appointed to DOD Defense Innovation Board

    Former Central Intelligence Agency executive Susan Gordon has been added to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Board along with several other new inductees. Gordon, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, will join leaders such as former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Michael Mullen and LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on the board, to help encourage a technology pipeline […] More

  • A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Sen. Mark Warner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Sen. Mark Warner

    Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., was recognized by the Boy Scouts of America’s National Capital Area Council as its recipient of the Technology Good Scout Award in 2003, when he was still serving as the governor of Virginia. The lawmaker is part of the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget and Rules Committees and serves as chairman of […] More

  • NASA Picks Rocket Lab to Power Mobile Space Robots With Solar Panels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks Rocket Lab to Power Mobile Space Robots With Solar Panels

    Rocket Lab has secured a contract with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide solar panels that will power small, autonomous robots programmed to work as a team to explore and collect data on lunar and planetary surfaces. For the effort, the contractor said Friday it will use the inverted metamorphic multi-junction solar cells that its recently […] More

  • QCI Plans to Construct Quantum Nanophotonics Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QCI Plans to Construct Quantum Nanophotonics Research Center

    Quantum Computing Inc. will build a research and production facility to house its future innovations in quantum nanophotonics. The Leesburg, Virginia-based company said Friday it intends to finance the project through government incentives, particularly opportunities under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The planned research center will serve as QCI’s hub for developing nanophotonics […] More

  • AWS Lists Services Included in OMB Memo for Event Logging Requirements at EL1 Level - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Lists Services Included in OMB Memo for Event Logging Requirements at EL1 Level

    The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum that establishes a maturity model to guide the implementation of event logging requirements with regard to cybersecurity incidents and Amazon Web Services outlined for federal customers the AWS services listed in the M-21-31 memo that require log data capture and storage at the EL1 level. “EL1 […] More

  • Amazon's Kuiper Satellites Eyed to Act as 'Translators' for Military Mesh Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon’s Kuiper Satellites Eyed to Act as ‘Translators’ for Military Mesh Network

    Amazon will equip its broadband satellites with laser communications terminals to enable the high-speed transfer of remote-sensing data to the Space Development Agency’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Friday. SDA aims to use some satellites from Amazon’s Project Kuiper as translators between commercial remote-sensing companies and the Department of Defense’s Transport Layer, a mesh […] More

  • Booz Allen, ARC Partner to Develop 5G-Powered Military Weapon Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, ARC Partner to Develop 5G-Powered Military Weapon Sensor

    Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with defense technology provider Armaments Research Company to develop a 5G-powered weapons sensing and data sharing system for the U.S. military. The partnership under a previously awarded contract with Booz Allen will integrate data collected from weapon sensors into the company’s 5G-powered network in support of a Department of Defense […] More

  • Paperless Innovations: Actus Platform Complies With CMMC 2.0 Level 2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations: Actus Platform Complies With CMMC 2.0 Level 2

    The Actus procurement workflow automation platform of Paperless Innovations has complied with Level 2 requirements set by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 model. The updated cybersecurity framework was released in November 2021 to assess defense contractors’ capability to handle and safeguard Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information, the company said. Level 2 compliance […] More

  • TBP&JJ Worldwide to Help Operate, Maintain NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TBP&JJ Worldwide to Help Operate, Maintain NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center

    NASA awarded TBP&JJ Worldwide Services a potential five-year, $43 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain facilities at an Edwards, California-based aeronautical research center. The company is scheduled to commence support services for the Armstrong Flight Research Center under the firm-fixed-price, time-and-material contract on Dec. 1, the agency said Friday. Services will include repair, […] More