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  • Frank Sheppard to Manage Parsons-DOE Project; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Sheppard to Manage Parsons-DOE Project; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Frank Sheppard Jr., a Parsons vice president and former deputy project manager for the Energy Department‘s salt waste processing facility, will take over as SWPF project manager effective immediately. The company said Monday Sheppard will succeed the retiring Louis Jackson and oversee the facility’s operations in Aiken, South Carolina. “Frank is a key member of the SWPF management […] More

  • General Atomics, DOE Lab Report New Findings in Fusion Energy Studies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, DOE Lab Report New Findings in Fusion Energy Studies

    General Atomics and its partners at the Energy Department‘s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have reported the latest findings in their joint studies on fusion energy and the control of edge-localized modes or heat bursts. The company said March 15 the research team found that tiny magnetic fields work to suppress intense heat bursts by gradually releasing heat near […] More

  • Raytheon, Partners Demo Microgrid System for Military Backup Power - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Partners Demo Microgrid System for Military Backup Power

    Raytheon has helped complete a demonstration of a backup-power microgrid system that it developed with partners Primus Power, Advanced Energy and the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The technology combines Raytheon’s Intelligent Power and Energy Management Microgrid Controller, Primus Power’s EnergyPod 706kVA powertrain and Advanced Energy’s 100kW solar inverters to support off-grid operation, Raytheon said Thursday. It stores high-penetration renewable […] More

  • Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor

    Govini‘s latest Federal Scorecard report points to a “highly competitive” government contracting space in 2014 with the Commerce Department leading in agency spending percentage increase and Lockheed Martin ahead in captured contract revenue. “The annual scorecard gives the market an opportunity to look at federal spending from a macro level and, through analytics, explain the trends that […] More

  • Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mo Mulligan: Triple Canopy JV Receives DOE Recognition for Oak Ridge Services

    A joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard has received a performance score of 96 from the Energy Department on the venture’s contract to provide protective force services at DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Triple Canopy said Jan. 21 that DOE commended National Strategic Protective Services for meeting or exceeding expectations on contract performance and its “continued ability to adapt […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Continues Support for Energy Sector Through STEM Talent - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Continues Support for Energy Sector Through STEM Talent

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has highlighted the company’s partnership with the Energy Department, universities and industry in addressing the challenges in the energy sector and encouraging careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Hewson said Tuesday in her address during the first anniversary of DOE’s Minorities in Energy project that Lockheed supports the agency in meeting the energy needs […] More

  • Battelle, Stony Brook JV Awarded $3.2B to Continue Mgmt of DOE's Brookhaven Natl Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Stony Brook JV Awarded $3.2B to Continue Mgmt of DOE’s Brookhaven Natl Lab

    A joint venture of Battelle and Stony Brook University has received a $3.2 billion contract to continue to run the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York until Jan. 4, 2020. The Energy Department awarded the five-year management and operations contract to Brookhaven Science Associates through competition, DOE said Wednesday. Brookhaven Science Associates has supported the […] More

  • Norse-FireEye Team Selected for DOE Live Threat Defense Program; Sam Glines Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Norse-FireEye Team Selected for DOE Live Threat Defense Program; Sam Glines Comments

    Norse Corp. has won a $1.9 million contract with the Energy Department to help detect live threats to national critical infrastructure owners and operators in the energy sector in collaboration with FireEye. Norse will provide threat intelligence services for DOE’s cybersecurity risk information sharing program meant to help the energy sector identify and mitigate threats, Norse said Thursday. “We are thrilled […] More

  • Executive Profile: Lori Stallard, Business Development VP for URS Federal Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Lori Stallard, Business Development VP for URS Federal Services

    Lori Stallard is the vice president of business development for the systems engineering and information solutions group within URS Federal Services. She leads business development professionals who work to assist federal civilian and defense agency clients. Stallard previously served as VP of business development at General Dynamics Information Technology’s homeland security solutions sector after she held business development […] More

  • Charlie McMillan: DOE Awards Los Alamos Nat'l Lab Employee Safety Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charlie McMillan: DOE Awards Los Alamos Nat’l Lab Employee Safety Efforts

    The Energy Department has given Los Alamos National Laboratory the “Star” status under the Voluntary Protection Program, which evaluates DOE contractor measures in employee health and safety. LANL said Wednesday the department also named Bethany Rich, former head of the lab’s VPP Program Office, as a DOE-VPP Champion nominee for her contributions to the program. “Hazards are part of our everyday work and […] More

  • Duncan Earl: DOE Makes Quantum Computing Push Through Grant to Qubitekk - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Duncan Earl: DOE Makes Quantum Computing Push Through Grant to Qubitekk

    Qubitekk, a San Diego-based startup company, has received a $3 million grant from the Energy Department to develop quantum encryption technology to secure the national power grid from hacking and other cyberattacks. The company said Aug. 26 that it will work with the Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Sandia national laboratories; the University of Texas at […] More

  • Microsoft Starts New Research Project on Fuel Cells With $5M Govt Grant; Sean James Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Starts New Research Project on Fuel Cells With $5M Govt Grant; Sean James Comments

    Microsoft will collaborate with Redox Power Systems, Trans-Tech and the University of Maryland to carry out a $5 million government-funded research project on fuel cells as power source for data centers, Data Center Knowledge reported Tuesday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes the project will use methane-powered fuel cells installed in data center IT racks to differentiate from an earlier research […] More