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  • VMware Horizon Cloud Service Secures Authorization for Federal, State Agency Use - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Horizon Cloud Service Secures Authorization for Federal, State Agency Use

    VMware has achieved authorization to offer its Horizon cloud service to federal, state, local and tribal government agencies looking to migrate to the cloud. The company said Thursday it secured high authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and State Risk and Authorization Management Program for its desktop virtualization service available […] More

  • NTIA, DOD Handpick Vendors to Demonstrate 5G Tech Interoperability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTIA, DOD Handpick Vendors to Demonstrate 5G Tech Interoperability

    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has named seven contenders for a multi-vendor prize competition co-hosted by NTIA and the Department of Defense to demonstrate interoperability between radio access network architectures. Contestants of the 2023 5G Challenge will perform work in pairs on two teams to test subsystems that support the fifth-generation mobile technology standard, […] More

  • Carahsoft's John Lee: Security Snapshot Could Simplify StateRAMP Certification Process for CSPs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s John Lee: Security Snapshot Could Simplify StateRAMP Certification Process for CSPs

    John Lee, vice president for cloud solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said the State Risk and Authorization Management Program, an independent nonprofit organization launched in 2021, unveiled an early-stage security maturity evaluation tool for cloud offerings, called Security Snapshot, in January. Lee wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Security Snapshot offers detailed information on […] More

  • Groundswell Unveils New Lab for SAP-based Federal Tool Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Groundswell Unveils New Lab for SAP-based Federal Tool Innovation

    Technology consulting firm Groundswell has established an innovation laboratory in order to deliver SAP offerings to its customers in the federal government. The company said Wednesday it will employ project managers, developers and architects who will collaborate with SAP to create new services aimed at addressing gaps in agencies’ operations and administration. Groundswell’s SAP Innovation […] More

  • Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech

    Red 6 will integrate its augmented reality training platform into the TF-50 jets that Lockheed Martin, Korea Aerospace Industries co-developed. The Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System is intended to provide pilots and ground operators with new capabilities to spot and react to real-time, high-speed synthetic threat environments, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the partnership, ATARS will be applied […] More

  • AT&T’s Lance Spencer on Helping Air and Space Forces Transform Mission Capabilities With 5G Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Lance Spencer on Helping Air and Space Forces Transform Mission Capabilities With 5G Services

    Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of defense for AT&T, said the company has facilitated the delivery of 5G services at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado as part of efforts to help the Air and Space Forces modernize communications and their mission capabilities under the Enterprise Information Technology-as-a-Service program. Spencer wrote in a blog […] More

  • The US Is Betting on Quantum—But Is It Enough? - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The US Is Betting on Quantum—But Is It Enough?

    Quantum computing is one of the most ascendent and sought-after technologies in today’s climate, with broad applications. Prognosticators believe that it will have widespread influence and effects in global citizens’ lives in the coming years. For example, experts have pointed to quantum’s usage in autonomous vehicles that can operationalize its speed of compute to help […] More

  • Boeing Demos Anti-Jamming System for Military Satcom Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Demos Anti-Jamming System for Military Satcom Platforms

    Boeing has showcased a ground-based system designed to protect military satellite communications platforms from jamming and electronic warfare threats during a demonstration held at the Joint Satellite Engineering Center. The company said Tuesday it used an on-orbit operational satellite to test the capability of the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Enterprise Service to enable ground-based […] More

  • Sikorsky, GE Aerospace to Collaborate on Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator Program; Paul Lemmo Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, GE Aerospace to Collaborate on Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator Program; Paul Lemmo Quoted

    Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary will build an uncrewed hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft prototype in partnership with General Electric’s aerospace business. GE Aerospace will provide a CT7 turboshaft engine, 1 megawatt-class generator and related power electronics for the fully autonomous Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator aircraft and support the HEX project by building on the hybrid electric propulsion platform it […] More

  • NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins on Use of Drones, Sensors in Wildfire Prevention, Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins on Use of Drones, Sensors in Wildfire Prevention, Response

    A report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology presents several recommendations to modernize wildland firefighting and one of those is the need to adopt technologies that could help enhance situational awareness during active fires, American City and County reported Tuesday. Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal arm, said automated drones […] More

  • Northrop Conducts 1st Full-Scale Sentinel Static Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Conducts 1st Full-Scale Sentinel Static Fire Test

    Northrop Grumman has completed the first full-scale static test fire of a stage-one solid rocket motor for the U.S. Air Force’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company said Monday the LGM-35A Sentinel stage-one solid rocket motor was fired at its test facility in Promontory, Utah, to verify the technology’s design approach and evaluate its […] More

  • SAIC Invests in Cloud Automation Company Morpheus Data; Andy Henson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Invests in Cloud Automation Company Morpheus Data; Andy Henson Quoted

    Science Applications International Corp. has made a strategic investment in cloud automation platforms provider Morpheus Data. Founded in 2015, Morpheus Data provides a platform that offers a unified approach to hybrid cloud management and operations and enables the integration of third-party tools into a self-service framework in support of public sector organizations and companies, SAIC […] More