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  • Report: Navy, USMC Identify $1.7B in Unfunded Priorities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy, USMC Identify $1.7B in Unfunded Priorities

    The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps have submitted to Congress their fiscal 2019 “unfunded priority lists” that requested $1.7 billion in total funds to support projects that were not included in the official budget request, USNI News reported Tuesday. The Navy seeks $1.5 billion for its budget wish list that includes the procurement […] More

  • DoD, ODNI Respectively Seek $21B, $60B in Fiscal 2019 Intell Program Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, ODNI Respectively Seek $21B, $60B in Fiscal 2019 Intell Program Funds

    The Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have publicly released their fiscal 2019 budget requests for their respective intelligence initiatives. DoD said Tuesday it has requested a top-line budget of $21.2 billion to support its Military Intelligence Program. The budget both includes the MIP base budget and allocation for overseas contingency operations, the Pentagon […] More

  • OMB Asks Agencies to Submit Project Proposals for Tech Modernization Fund Under MGT Act - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OMB Asks Agencies to Submit Project Proposals for Tech Modernization Fund Under MGT Act

    The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum that outlines measures and goals federal agencies should implement to comply with the Modernizing Government Technology Act that aims to facilitate information technology system upgrades, Nextgov reported Tuesday. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said in the Tuesday memo agencies seeking to receive funds through the potential […] More

  • Charles Verdon Appointed NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles Verdon Appointed NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs

    President Donald Trump has appointed Charles Verdon, a principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as deputy administrator for defense programs at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration. At LLNL, Verdon leads the federal research facility’s weapons and complex integration directorate that focuses on nuclear weapons programs, the White House said Monday. His previous roles […] More

  • Japan Receives First JASDF F-35A Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Japan Receives First JASDF F-35A Aircraft

    The first F-35A aircraft directly assigned to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force has landed on Misawa Air Base, Japan. The jet will be assigned to the JASDF’s 3rd wing, and is the second of its kind built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries‘ Nagoya-based final assembly and check-out facility, Lockheed Martin F-35 said Saturday. The particular unit is one of 42 […] More

  • Army to Update Target Surveillance & Acquisition System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Update Target Surveillance & Acquisition System

    The U.S. Army will install upgrades into a target surveillance and acquisition system designed to boost target identification accuracy and protect scouts while searching for targets, Army Times reported Monday. Army researchers are working to update the Long-Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System with a third-generation forward-looking infrared radar. The Raytheon-built LRAS3 is designed to give scouts […] More

  • Report: Bill Would Reform Navy Surface Ship Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Bill Would Reform Navy Surface Ship Operations

    Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced a bill that would implement changes to the U.S. Navy‘s surface fleet operations, USNI News reported Monday. The Surface Warfare Enhancement Act of 2018 was created in response to ship collisions that involved the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain guided-missile destroyers in 2017. The bill […] More

  • FBI Appoints John Adams as Info & Tech Branch Executive Asst Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Appoints John Adams as Info & Tech Branch Executive Asst Director

    John Adams, formerly assistant director of the FBI‘s intelligence directorate, has been named executive assistant director for the bureau’s information and technology branch. The two-decade FBI veteran began his career at the Washington Field Office where he investigated espionage, drug trafficking, violent crime and terrorism cases. He transferred to the bureau’s headquarters in 2004 and […] More

  • NASA, Rice University Develop 'Upper Extremity' Wearable Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Rice University Develop ‘Upper Extremity’ Wearable Tech

    NASA and Rice University have collaborated to build a wearable technology designed to activate the user’s elbow joints and the shoulder with a cable transmission system. The Soft Wearable Upper Extremity Garment, nicknamed “Armstrong,” uses Bowden cable actuators to manipulate synthetic tendons that cross the upper body, NASA said Saturday. The agency’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory has applied the technologies produced […] More

  • Charles Verdon Appointed NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles Verdon Appointed NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs

    President Donald Trump has appointed Charles Verdon, a principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as deputy administrator for defense programs at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration. At LLNL, Verdon leads the federal research facility’s weapons and complex integration directorate that focuses on nuclear weapons programs, the White House said Monday. His previous roles […] More

  • DISA Completes SIPRNet Classified Network Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Completes SIPRNet Classified Network Modernization Project

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has wrapped up modernization work on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network as part of the SIPRNet Access Migration Project designed to facilitate network connectivity for mission partners DISA said Thursday it transitioned SIPRNet into a virtual network, reduced the network’s size and raised the bandwidth capacity from 1G to 10G […] More

  • Reports: DIUx Head Raj Shah Steps Down - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: DIUx Head Raj Shah Steps Down

    Raj Shah, head of the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, resigned from his post Thursday after a nearly two-year stint with the organization, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Navy Capt. Sean Heritage will step into the acting leadership role at DIUx. Shah, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, took the helm in May 2016 after then-Defense Secretary Ashton […] More