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  • Booz Allen to Move Rockville, Maryland Offices to New Bethesda Facility; Deane Edelman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Move Rockville, Maryland Offices to New Bethesda Facility; Deane Edelman Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has announced plans to move the technology consulting and engineering company’s Rockville, Maryland-based offices to a single facility in Bethesda by the end of 2019. The company said Friday approximately 750 of its employees across Montgomery County will transfer to a 65,000 square-foot facility designed with collaborative and innovation work environments. “The nature of […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense to Modernize Army HEMTT Logistics Transport Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense to Modernize Army HEMTT Logistics Transport Vehicles

    An Oshkosh subsidiary has received a potential $40 million U.S. Army order to provide recapitalization services for 90 vehicles within the Army Reserves Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles fleet. Oshkosh Defense will update Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks to the latest HEMTT A4 configuration under the order from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, the company said Tuesday. “Recapitalized vehicles […] More

  • Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Implement ‘Proactive’ Cybersecurity Approach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Diane Gongaware: Agencies Should Implement ‘Proactive’ Cybersecurity Approach

    Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said agencies should adopt a “proactive” approach to cybersecurity in order to facilitate threat detection and response as well as mitigate the impacts of cyber attacks. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article published Tuesday that agencies should conduct risk assessments to identify the types of information […] More

  • GSA Issues RFQ for White House’s Centers of Excellence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Issues RFQ for White House’s Centers of Excellence

    The General Services Administration has asked industry for quotations to provide staffing support for the White House’s proposed centers of excellence, Nextgov reported Thursday. The proposed CoEs will advance several technology programs such as information technology infrastructure optimization; cloud adoption; service delivery analytics; contact centers; and customer experience. GSA could award by the end of January three-year […] More

  • Air Force Outlines B-52 Aircraft Engine Replacement Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Outlines B-52 Aircraft Engine Replacement Plans

    The U.S. Air Force outlined its options for the replacement of the B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft’s engine during an industry day held Dec. 12, Defense News reported Friday. The report said USAF seeks new engines instead of refurbished systems and plans to maintain an eight-engine configuration on the fleet of 76 B-52s. Potential engine integrators must be […] More

  • BAE-Northrop-DECA Team Obtains UK Defense Ministry Acquisition Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Northrop-DECA Team Obtains UK Defense Ministry Acquisition Award

    A partnership of BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and U.K.’s defense electronics and components agency has received recognition from the British defense ministry for their collaborative efforts under the F-35 Lightning II program. MoD honored the bid team called Team UK during the Minister for Defense Procurement Acquisition Awards ceremony that took place Nov. 28 at the ministry’s headquarters, Northrop said […] More

  • DARPA Offers Research Tools Under Holiday Operations Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Offers Research Tools Under Holiday Operations Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has provided Santa Claus and his crew with technology platforms designed to help them carry out their duties this Christmas as part of the High-speed Optimized Handling of Holiday Operations program. DARPA said Friday the HO HO HO initiative is on its fourth year and aims to share with Santa […] More

  • SBA Approves Huntington Ingalls' SN3 Subsidiary, Bay West for Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA Approves Huntington Ingalls’ SN3 Subsidiary, Bay West for Mentor-Protege Program

    The Small Business Administration has given Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ SN3 subsidiary the green light to forge a mentor-protege relationship with environmental consulting firm Bay West. SN3 will provide assistance to Bay West in the contracting, technical, business development and management areas as the latter company looks to pursue Energy Department market opportunities, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. An agreement […] More

  • CompTIA Board: AI, User Experience Optimization Among Tech Trends for 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CompTIA Board: AI, User Experience Optimization Among Tech Trends for 2018

    CompTIA’s board of directors has outlined six technology trends to watch in 2018 and those include the increased adoption of artificial intelligence platforms and optimization of user experience through the use of technology. CompTIA said Thursday its recent poll showed that one in four businesses adopts AI in task automation, workflows and machine learning and […] More

  • NASA to Fund Johns Hopkins Proposal to Use Quadcopters for Exploration Mission on Saturn's Moon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Fund Johns Hopkins Proposal to Use Quadcopters for Exploration Mission on Saturn’s Moon

    NASA has selected a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory proposal as one of two finalists for the space agency’s New Frontiers program which aims to further solar system exploration efforts. Johns Hopkins said Thursday the proposed Dragonfly dual-quadcopter vehicle will look to evaluate the prebiotic organic chemistry as well as the habitability of Saturn’s […] More

  • MDA to Help NATO Build Maritime C2 Visualization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA to Help NATO Build Maritime C2 Visualization Tech

    Maxar Technologies‘s MDA business has received a potential $11.8 million contract to produce a technology platform for NATO to visualize the international alliance’s maritime command and control operations. MDA said Thursday it will base the platform on a modern software architecture and technology for integration into fixed and deployable systems as part of Project TRITON. TRITON is designed to help NATO and […] More

  • Vencore Research Arm to Develop RF Spectrum Mgmt Platforms for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Research Arm to Develop RF Spectrum Mgmt Platforms for DoD

    Vencore‘s research arm has received two Defense Department contracts worth up to $14.7 million combined to design, prototype and demonstrate technology platforms for DoD to monitor and measure usage of its radio frequency spectrum. Vencore Labs will develop a spectrum monitoring, recording and visualization platform for deployment to DoD training ranges under the $7.9 million Comprehensive Spectrum Monitoring System contract, […] More