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  • Orbital ATK Enters Devt Hardware Production Phase for Next-Gen Space Launch Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Enters Devt Hardware Production Phase for Next-Gen Space Launch Vehicles

    Orbital ATK has started production work on development hardware for its large- and intermediate-class family of space launch vehicles. Orbital ATK said Monday its Next Generation Launch family of rockets is designed to launch commercial, national security and scientific satellites that are too huge to fly aboard the company’s Antares, Pegasus and Minotaur space vehicles. The […] More

  • CSBA Adds Barbara Humpton, Randy Forbes, Adam Frankel to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSBA Adds Barbara Humpton, Randy Forbes, Adam Frankel to Board of Directors

    The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has appointed Barbara Humpton, Randy Forbes and Adam Frankel to its board of directors. CSBA President and CEO Thomas Mahnken, said in a statement that the convergence of military and economic instruments is crucial to the national security debate and the new board members’ experiences reflect this intersection. Humpton is the […] More

  • Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Seeks Open GPS Tech Ideas via Plug Fest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Seeks Open GPS Tech Ideas via Plug Fest

    The U.S. Air Force has introduced an open-source initiative to gather input from interested companies on how to modernize the service branch’s Global Positioning System, Space News reported Friday. Phillip Swarts writes Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy for acquisition at the Air Force, said the Plug Fest program seeks potential traditional and nontraditional partners that can help the […] More

  • IBM Pledges to Hire 2K Military Veterans Under "New Collar" Jobs; Diane Gherson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Pledges to Hire 2K Military Veterans Under “New Collar” Jobs; Diane Gherson Comments

    IBM will recruit up to 2,000 U.S. military veterans through 2020 as part of an ongoing commitment to hire 25,000 workers for “new collar” technology roles and positions that do not necessarily require a four-year college degree. The company said Friday it will also expand a nationwide program designed to train veterans on the use of various software platforms such as […] More

  • BayFirst Solutions LLC Launches New Recruitment Effort: The BayFirst Difference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BayFirst Solutions LLC Launches New Recruitment Effort: The BayFirst Difference

    BayFirst Solutions LLC announced the commencement of its new recruitment effort, the BayFirst Difference, in early March. The BayFirst Difference is the climax of a five-year-long strategic planning initiative to affect record growth in the company. Despite being announced in early March, BayFirst had laid the groundwork for the BayFirst Difference over the past twelve […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Ideas to Detect Gene-Edited Organisms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Ideas to Detect Gene-Edited Organisms

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on methods and tools to detect genetically altered biological organisms, Nextgov reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes IARPA aims to prevent the misuse of genome editing techniques that may have adverse impact on the country’s economy, public health and national security. The IARPA RFI states “detection capabilities will help […] More

  • Ashley Bunce Named Executive Director for NDIA's Women in Defense Affiliate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ashley Bunce Named Executive Director for NDIA’s Women in Defense Affiliate

    Ashley Bunce, formerly associate director for the National Defense Industrial Association’s Women in Defense affiliate, has been named executive director of WID. NDIA said Monday Bunce will oversee the organization’s strategic direction, external relationships and programs that seek to facilitate professional networking and leadership development for women in national security. Craig McKinley, NDIA president and CEO, said […] More

  • Phil Simonsen Named ACT I Senior Space, Cyber Programs Executive; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phil Simonsen Named ACT I Senior Space, Cyber Programs Executive; Michael Niggel Comments

    Phil Simonsen, a 28-year government national security space veteran, has been named senior executive for space and cyber programs at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. He will oversee the company’s strategy to pursue new business opportunities with the National Reconnaissance Office and the Air Force Space Command, ACT I said. ACT I CEO Michael Niggel said Simonsen’s […] More

  • Kratos Lands Command, Control & Comms Contract With US Security Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands Command, Control & Comms Contract With US Security Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $17.5 million contract to provide command, control and communications services to an unnamed federal security agency. Kratos said Thursday its technology and training solutions division will carry out work at secure Kratos and customer facilities. TTS provides satellite and space system C3, signal processing, radio frequency interference […] More

  • Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response

    Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look to respond threats such as […] More

  • CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds

    CSRA will integrate information technology systems with high-performance computing services to help government agencies process information at a faster pace in a push to support decision-making speeds in areas such as climate change, scientific research and space exploration. The company said Wednesday the new HPC service model will work to support HPC customer requirements within a common […] More

  • OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership

    TransVoyant and OGSystems have partnered to integrate a predictive analytics tool with OGSystems’ platform that works to help customers gain situational awareness as well as receive anomaly alerts and reports on operational risks. The partnership aims to add TransVoyant’s Precise Predictive Intelligence system to the BlueGlass platform OGSystems designed to generate real-time insights through remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics, OGSystems said […] More