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  • DigitaliBiz to Engineer, Support NSF Polar Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitaliBiz to Engineer, Support NSF Polar Systems

    DigitaliBiz has won a potential 66-month, $48.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide systems engineering and operational support services to the National Science Foundation‘s Division of Polar programs. The Defense Department said Friday the company will help NSF implement systems designed to manage airspace, quality operational meteorology, aviation ground and information systems. The Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems […] More

  • Leidos to Host Industry Days for NSF Antarctic Infrastructure Construction Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Host Industry Days for NSF Antarctic Infrastructure Construction Program

    Leidos will hold industry days on June 13 and Aug. 15 in Centennial, Colorado, to discuss the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science  program with potential subcontractors. AIMS is a multi-phase construction program composed of three design-build projects and one design-bid-build initiative, NSF said Thursday. NSF said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday […] More

  • NGD Systems to Develop In-Storage Data Processing Tech Under NSF Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGD Systems to Develop In-Storage Data Processing Tech Under NSF Grant

    NGD Systems has secured a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize technology that will work to integrate data processing capacity into storage devices. The company said Wednesday it aims to eliminate the need to move data to main memory before processing with an in-situ processing technology. “We are now engaged with […] More

  • Executive Profile: Diana Burley, Executive Director & Chair of I3P - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Diana Burley, Executive Director & Chair of I3P

    Diana Burley has served as executive director and chair at the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection since October 2015. She is also full professor of human and organizational learning at the George Washington University. Burley previously worked as an associate professor, director of executive leadership doctoral program and chair of the human and organizational learning department at GW. The cybersecurity workforce […] More

  • NSF Selects Ignite-Northeastern University Team for Wireless Network R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Selects Ignite-Northeastern University Team for Wireless Network R&D Program

    A team comprised of US Ignite and Northeastern University has received a $6.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a program that seeks to accelerate research on future wireless communication and networking technologies. NSF said US Ignite and NSF will oversee the program office of the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program and collaborate with industry partners […] More

  • Agriculture Department Invests $5M in Cyber Physical Systems Research; Sonny Ramaswamy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agriculture Department Invests $5M in Cyber Physical Systems Research; Sonny Ramaswamy Comments

    The Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested up to $5 million in a research program that aims to mature the technology behind internet-connected agricultural resources. The investment is part of NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative and is intended to coordinate other agencies to update complex cyber-physical systems, USDA said Friday. […] More

  • Orbital ATK-NASA Team Commences Launch of Five Scientific Balloon Flights to Collect Cosmic Ray Particle Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-NASA Team Commences Launch of Five Scientific Balloon Flights to Collect Cosmic Ray Particle Data

    Orbital ATK supported NASA‘s scientific balloon team in the launch of five scientific balloon flights that carried instruments and payloads developed to provide scientific data on cosmic ray particles and the life cycle of the interstellar medium. Orbital ATK said Monday the balloons launched as part of the NASA Antarctica Long Duration Balloon Flight Campaign and the five flights in […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF's South Pole Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF’s South Pole Station

    A Lockheed Martin-built legacy U.S. Air Force satellite has begun to provide communications services for the National Science Foundation‘s South Pole-based Amundsen-Scott Station. Lockheed said Tuesday the Defense Satellite Communications System III B7 replaced NSF’s decommissioned Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-3 in June to establish communication and data links between Amundsen-Scott Station and the U.S. Antarctic Program facility in New Zealand. DSCS III B7 […] More

  • NVIDIA to Host Graphics Processing Unit Computing Conference on Deep Learning, AI Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVIDIA to Host Graphics Processing Unit Computing Conference on Deep Learning, AI Tech

    NVIDIA will host an event series for developers of graphics processing unit-based computing technologies on Oct. 26 and 27 at The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The GPU Technology Conference will include hands-on artificial intelligence technology training, industry discussions and engagement with NVIDIA employees, the visual computing company said. GTC DC also aims to […] More

  • Accenture's Cloud-Based ERP Platform Gains FedRAMP Approval; David Moskovitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture’s Cloud-Based ERP Platform Gains FedRAMP Approval; David Moskovitz Comments

    Accenture has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system designed for government customers. The company said Tuesday it helped the National Science Foundation implement and migrate NSF’s new financial system to Accenture’s Federal Cloud ERP platform. David Moskovitz, chief executive of Accenture’s federal services business, said the FedRAMP certification will help the company to […] More

  • Juniper to Provide Networking Infrastructure for Natl Center for Atmospheric Research Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juniper to Provide Networking Infrastructure for Natl Center for Atmospheric Research Supercomputer

    The federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research has selected Juniper Networks to build the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that scientists will use to forecast climate patterns and analyze the effects of global warming. Juniper said Wednesday the machine will be deployed to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center this fall and is designed to generate 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. Tim Solms, vice president of Juniper […] More