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  • Ensco Adds Former GS1 CTO Steven Bratt to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco Adds Former GS1 CTO Steven Bratt to Board of Directors

    Steven Bratt, former chief technology officer and president of standards development president at the GS1 nonprofit organization, has joined Ensco‘s board of directors. He brings his international business and technology leadership experience to the science and engineering services contractor as a board member, Ensco said Thursday. “[Bratt’s] stimulating insights in a wide range of technology areas and experience in international […] More

  • DARPA, Space Systems Loral Reach Draft Partnership Agreement on On-Orbit Robotic Servicer R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Space Systems Loral Reach Draft Partnership Agreement on On-Orbit Robotic Servicer R&D

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Space Systems Loral have drafted a partnership agreement to develop technologies that would facilitate autonomous repair and maintenance of satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Both parties aim to jointly fund and perform technology development efforts under the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program as part of the agreement, DARPA said Thursday. The RSGS public-private partnership is subject to review […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Research Proposals for Online Social Behavior Simulation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Research Proposals for Online Social Behavior Simulation

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun to solicit industry proposals to research and develop technologies that will work to simulate the spread of information across online platforms. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement posted Monday on FedBizOpps that proposals for the Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior program should include approaches to foster scientific advances. The agency introduced the SocialSim program […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Electromagnetic Biosignaling Identification Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Electromagnetic Biosignaling Identification Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day via webcast on Feb. 21 to discuss the RadioBio program that aims to determine whether purposeful signaling through electromagnetic waves occurs between biological cells. “If we can prove that purposeful signaling is happening, the next step would be to discover how the process works,” Mike Fiddy, […] More

  • Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences Tests UAS Capture System Prototype Under DARPA Program

    Aurora Flight Sciences has tested a technology demonstration platform designed to retrieve unmanned aerial systems as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. DARPA said Monday the SideArm prototype worked to capture a Lockheed Martin-built Fury UAS flying at full speed. “SideArm aims to replicate carriers’ capability to quickly and safely accelerate and decelerate planes through a portable, […] More

  • OmniEarth to Develop Soil Moisture Mapping Tech Under DARPA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OmniEarth to Develop Soil Moisture Mapping Tech Under DARPA Contract

    OmniEarth has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a mapping technology for military personnel to assess, manage and predict soil conditions. The company said Monday it will fuse information from commercially-available synthetic aperture radar and multispectral imagery in a push to develop a precision soil moisture mapping model to aid tactical decisionmaking. […] More

  • FDA OKs Abbott Zika Virus Detection Molecular Test that Involves Whole Blood Usage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA OKs Abbott Zika Virus Detection Molecular Test that Involves Whole Blood Usage

    The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its emergency use authorization for an Abbott-developed molecular test for Zika virus detection to involve the use of whole blood in addition to previous serum and urine sample usage. Abbott said Thursday the RealTime ZIKA test was created for use on the company’s molecular diagnostics instrument called the m2000 RealTime […] More

  • Galois Seeks Submissions to DARPA-Sponsored Software Reverse Engineering Prevention Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois Seeks Submissions to DARPA-Sponsored Software Reverse Engineering Prevention Challenges

    Galois seeks submissions to two benchmark challenges that work to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to prevent software reverse engineering. Submissions should describe existing theories or new approaches to identify security vulnerabilities in program obfuscation technology, Galois said Monday. One challenge focuses on order-revealing encryption while the other targets point-function obfuscation, with both security […] More

  • DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design

    Flex Logix has inked an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array technology for use by agencies and companies to design integrated circuits for the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will offer EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node to help users reconfigure register-transfer levels during the digital […] More

  • CTC Launches Technical Advisory Board; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Launches Technical Advisory Board; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has formed a new advisory board that will work to assess the technical projects of the nonprofit applied scientific research and development company. CTC said Thursday its technical advisory board consists of business and technical executives who will help the company to identify potential integration and enhancement opportunities as well as mentor technical staff. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and […] More

  • DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments

    Vencore’s research arm has received a 17-month, $2.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to modernize airborne systems and networks as part of an effort to facilitate uninterrupted communication in adverse environments. Vencore Labs will develop technologies to help protect network and radio communications from jamming systems as part of DARPA’s Dynamic Network Adaptation […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Secure Info Exchange Via Handheld Device Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Secure Info Exchange Via Handheld Device Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a proposers day on Jan. 31 in McLean, Virginia, to discuss a program that aims to develop a system that would facilitate secure exchange of sensitive information through a handheld device. DARPA said Tuesday it seeks to help deployed troops share classified information without the need to route traffic through secure data centers […] More