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  • Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development

    Aurora Flight Sciences has secured a six-month, $2.9 million contract to continue the development of the D8 subsonic commercial aircraft as part of NASA’s aviation innovation efforts. The contract aims to help establish requirements for the experimental aircraft or X-Plane program and kick-start the research phase to further develop the D8 commercial airliner, Aurora said Sept. 13. The goal is […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Qmulos' Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Qmulos’ Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. Qmulos said Tuesday its Q-Audit and Q-Compliance apps are designed to give users real-time visibility into management, operational and technical controls for information technology risk management, security and compliance monitoring programs. Carahsoft will help Qmulos market the Splunk-powered […] More

  • Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $19.4 million contract to continue to help NASA operate a satellite the company designed to observe the sun and support related scientific studies. Lockheed said Monday the contract extends the company’s support for the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph observatory through September 2018, with an option for further extension of the performance period until September 2019. “IRIS has taken more […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract

    NASA has awarded Charles River Analytics a two-year, $750,000 follow-on contract to develop a system for the space agency to measure and evaluate astronaut workload. The company said Monday it will collaborate with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University to build the Cognitive Assessment and Prediction to Promote Individualized Capability Augmentation and Reduce Decrement system for NASA. Bethany Bracken, a Charles River […] More

  • Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector

    OSIsoft has partnered with Carahsoft to offer public sector organizations the former’s sensor-based data capturing and integration software through the latter’s contracts under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V. The partnership also seeks to identify new methods to help customer agencies achieve their missions with OSISoft’s PI System, the company said Wednesday. Steven Sarnecki, vice president of the U.S. federal and public sector […] More

  • Reuters: SpaceX Intends to Resume Falcon 9 Rocket Launches in November - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: SpaceX Intends to Resume Falcon 9 Rocket Launches in November

    SpaceX plans to resume rocket launches in November, two months after a launch pad accident caused a Falcon 9 rocket to explode and destroyed a $200 million communications satellite owned by Space Communication, Reuters reported Tuesday. The space services company has said a second launch site at NASA‘S Kennedy Space Center in Florida would be ready to accommodate a […] More

  • MobileGuard to Offer Messaging Security Tools Via immixGroup's Schedule 70, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileGuard to Offer Messaging Security Tools Via immixGroup’s Schedule 70, SEWP Contracts

    MobileGuard‘s mobile communications compliance products have been added to immixGroup‘s offerings to the federal sector under the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicle. MobileGuard said Tuesday its platforms will work to help customer agencies  capture, monitor, archive and analyze text and SMS communications across all mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android. The […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Initial Design Review for 3 NOAA Weather Satellites; Steve Krein Comments

    Orbital ATK has completed the spacecraft preliminary design review for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s three Joint Polar Satellite Systems. The company collaborated with representatives from NOAA and NASA to subject JPSS-2, JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 to the four-day PDR that kicked off Aug. 29 at Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Arizona-based facility, Orbital ATK said Monday. The […] More

  • Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Water Energy Technologies have jointly developed a laundry system designed to help reduce water consumption for commercial laundry operations. The treatment system processes and recycles 90 percent of grey water from laundry operations through an integrated ozone technology and water recycling system, CTC said Thursday. “We look forward to combining the […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

  • NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype

    Vector Space Systems has secured a Phase II contract under NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer project to continue developing an upper stage prototype for the Vector-R launch vehicle. The award complements the company’s existing contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to examine the potential use of Vector-R’s first stage as a second stage for DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane, Vector Space Systems said […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More