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  • Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board

    Eric Fanning, former secretary of the U.S. Army, has been appointed to the board of advisers at the Center for a New American Security. He joins other CNAS advisory board members who came from various government, military, academic and private organizations, the Washington-based think tank said Wednesday. CNAS CEO Michele Flournoy said that Fanning has broad leadership experience across the Defense Department and […] More

  • Carbon Black, Air Force Life Cycle Mgmt Center Sign CRADA to Boost Cyber Capacity at Hanscom AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carbon Black, Air Force Life Cycle Mgmt Center Sign CRADA to Boost Cyber Capacity at Hanscom AFB

    Carbon Black and the electronics systems development division of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have entered a cooperative research and development agreement to strengthen cybersecurity at the Hanscom Air Force Base Collaboration and Innovation Center. The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that the agreement provides an opportunity for Carbon Black to deploy its endpoint security […] More

  • DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat's Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Red Hat‘s cloud platform within the laboratory’s compute and data infrastructure to support scientific and computational research projects at ORNL. Red Hat said Monday ORNL uses the company’s OpenStack Platform to provide cloud services in its Compute And Data Environment for Science infrastructure, which is designed to deliver computing, data analytics, […] More

  • MacB to Help Air Force Researchers Engineer, Demo EW Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacB to Help Air Force Researchers Engineer, Demo EW Systems

    MacAulay-Brown has received a three-year, $8.5 million task order to support engineering and demonstration of electronic warfare systems at the Air Force Research Laboratory. MacB said Monday the order falls under the Spectrum Warfare Evaluation and Assessment Technology Engineering Research contract and the company will perform work at AFRL’s headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The SWEATER […] More

  • Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has selected Ensco to present two independent research and development projects in front of a government intelligence community audience at the INSA Innovators Showcase forum. Ensco said Thursday it showcased the Virtual Phased Array and Low SWaP Software Defined Environments projects to a large group of program managers, engineers and scientists from the U.S. government […] More

  • Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium

    Cubic is part of a public-private consortium that has received a 10-year, $41.3 million grant from the government of Australia to develop smart transport and mobility technologies. Cubic said Tuesday it aims to build multimodal systems intended to help address Australia’s transportation challenges through the iMOVE Cooperative Research Center — a consortium comprised of technology companies, academic institutions and government agencies. CRC will focus on […] More

  • Northrop Unveils North Dakota-Based Autonomous Tech Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils North Dakota-Based Autonomous Tech Facility

    Northrop Grumman has unveiled a new 36,000-square-foot facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, that is built to foster the use of autonomous systems. The company said Friday the facility is located the Grand Sky Unmanned Aerial Systems Business and Aviation Park and focused on research and development, operations and mission analysis, aircraft maintenance, maintainer, operator and pilot training efforts. […] More

  • Galois Seeks to Drive Innovation, Expand Customer Support With New Ohio-Based Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois Seeks to Drive Innovation, Expand Customer Support With New Ohio-Based Office

    Galois has established a new office in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the company’s commitment to help drive technology innovation in the state and expand support offerings to  commercial and defense clients. The company said Friday it aims to begin operations at the 3,000-square-foot facility in early summer as well as expand relationships with research organizations and commercial transition partners in […] More

  • Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility plans to leverage its high performance computing experience in the company’s pursuit of NASA‘s Advanced Computing Services contract. The company said Thursday its HPC team includes computational and supercomputing scientists who have previously helped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration design and procure research and development HPC systems. NASA plans to issue a request for proposals on the Advanced Computing Services program that […] More

  • NTT Group Launches Threat Intelligence Center to Help Address Global Security Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Group Launches Threat Intelligence Center to Help Address Global Security Challenges

    NTT Group has established a Global Threat Intelligence Center in a push to increase coordination and collaboration of the company’s intelligence resources intended to help clients address security challenges worldwide. The company said Tuesday its security business aims to contextualize threat information as well as implement a unified threat intelligence approach through the center. GTIC is built to also support the collection, application and distribution of […] More

  • DARPA Selects Raytheon BBN for Dispersed Computing Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Raytheon BBN for Dispersed Computing Research Project

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a potential four-year, $10 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop software applications under DARPA’s Dispersed Computing program. The Defense Department said Tuesday that DCOMP program will explore software instantiations of algorithms and protocol stacks that can utilize dispersed computing platforms to increase the performance of networks and applications. DCOMP also […] More

  • Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD

    Battelle and Nanotherapeutics have forged an alliance to research, develop, test and evaluate medical countermeasures for the Defense Department to protect military personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. The partnership will focus on developing vaccines and therapeutic products against CBRN weapons that pose health risks to U.S. troops deployed worldwide, Battelle said Wednesday. Nanotherapeutics President and CEO Prasad Raje said the […] More