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  • General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic on US Defense Spending, Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic on US Defense Spending, Submarines

    Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said she sees strong U.S. defense spending amid the current administration’s focus on infrastructure, child care and other domestic programs, Bloomberg reported Thursday. “President Biden has been a longtime supporter of national security. So, this year’s budget for defense had a […] More

  • HPE, Argonne National Lab Unveil Testbed Supercomputer 'Polaris' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE, Argonne National Lab Unveil Testbed Supercomputer ‘Polaris’

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have launched a testbed supercomputer designed to help developers and scientists optimize artificial intelligence, scientific and engineering projects planned for Aurora, the forthcoming exascale supercomputer. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host and manage the Polaris testbed supercomputer, which will be installed by HPE […] More

  • Shield AI Announces $210M in Series D Funding; Ryan Tseng Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shield AI Announces $210M in Series D Funding; Ryan Tseng Quoted

    Shield AI has secured $210 million in equity financing as part of Series D funding round led by Austin, Texas-based technology investor Disruptive and will use the funds to invest in artificial intelligence capabilities for military aircraft and advance growth initiatives across defense and commercial sectors. “The funding round enables Shield AI to move one […] More

  • Lockheed’s Lisa Callahan: Digitizing Manufacturing Workflows Offers Advantages for Deep Space Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Lisa Callahan: Digitizing Manufacturing Workflows Offers Advantages for Deep Space Missions

    Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin’s space business, said she believes accelerated digital modernization efforts meant to improve spacecraft manufacturing processes could also benefit deep space missions, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. She noted that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the company to speed up its digital transformation roadmap and […] More

  • Lockheed Builds New Hybrid Satellite Dish Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Builds New Hybrid Satellite Dish Tech

    Lockheed Martin has developed a satellite antenna that could be used in remote sensing, radar and 5G communications. The company said Monday the Wide Angle ESA Fed Reflector antenna is part of its investment in the research and development of 5G.MIL technologies to link warfighting platforms in support of the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain […] More

  • General Atomics Seeks to Expand Optical Comms Terminal Production With New San Diego Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Seeks to Expand Optical Comms Terminal Production With New San Diego Facility

    General Atomics has added to its space systems infrastructure in San Diego a 7,500-square-foot cleanroom facility that can support the production of up to 300 optical communication terminals per year. Scott Forney, president of General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business, said in a statement published Monday GA-EMS is committed to fielding OCTs in support of future […] More

  • CACI’s Kevin McNeill: Digital Twins Could Help DOD 'Stress Test' JADC2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI’s Kevin McNeill: Digital Twins Could Help DOD ‘Stress Test’ JADC2

    The Department of Defense is advancing the Joint All-Domain Command and Control program and Kevin McNeill, senior vice president of cyberspace solutions at CACI International, said digital twins could help DOD test the resiliency of systems within the JADC2 environment, Federal News Network reported Friday. “That’s a very complex environment. So creating a digital twin […] More

  • IRS Selects 5 Vendors for Scanning as a Service Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Selects 5 Vendors for Scanning as a Service Contracts

    The Internal Revenue Service has awarded five companies contracts under a program to test new platforms to digitize paper documents and send the files back to the IRS through a digital channel. Xerox, Government CIO, Ripcord, Brillient and Resultant, formerly known as KSM Consulting, each secured a contract worth $7.5 million under the Pilot IRS […] More

  • Mitre's Scott Lee on Need for New C2 Architecture for All-Domain Situational Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre’s Scott Lee on Need for New C2 Architecture for All-Domain Situational Awareness

    Scott Lee, cross-cutting priority co-lead for JADC2 at Mitre, said the U.S. needs a new command and control infrastructure to speed up decision-making processes across all domains and keep ahead of near-peer competitors. “We must shift from domain-centric to mission-centric effects, planning and execution. And that has to start with rethinking our C2 from the […] More

  • Microsoft, HPE Demo Edge-to-Cloud Compute Workflow on ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, HPE Demo Edge-to-Cloud Compute Workflow on ISS

    Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise conducted an experiment involving genomics testing to demonstrate how an edge-to-cloud computational workflow could help overcome bandwidth and computing limitations between the International Space Station and Earth. The Azure Space team at Microsoft launched an experiment that involved monitoring astronauts’ health and sequencing their genomes aboard the ISS, Gabe Monroy, […] More

  • SAIC Reports $664M in Q2 FY22 Intelligence, Space Contract Wins; Michael LaRouche Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Reports $664M in Q2 FY22 Intelligence, Space Contract Wins; Michael LaRouche Quoted

    Science Applications International Corp. booked space and intelligence contracts worth approximately $664 million combined during the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. SAIC said Thursday most of the contracts cover services in digital engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, information technology modernization, mission operations and technology integration areas in support of classified space and intelligence community […] More

  • Brian McMahon: ManTech Demos Secure Tactical Edge Platform in Denied Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian McMahon: ManTech Demos Secure Tactical Edge Platform in Denied Environments

    Brian McMahon, director of cloud architecture at ManTech International, said the company secured a contract via the Defense Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot program after demonstrating its Secure Tactical Edge Platform in a denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environment during a U.S. Navy demonstration in late 2020. McMahon wrote in an article published Tuesday that ST3P […] More