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  • Rhea Space Activity to Further Develop Space Domain Awareness Dashboard for USAF - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rhea Space Activity to Further Develop Space Domain Awareness Dashboard for USAF

    Rhea Space Activity will continue developing a dashboard to boost space domain awareness under an award from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation program. The company said Wednesday it will work to inform operational SDA requirements as part of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award that provides for continued Lunar Intelligence Dashboard development. […] More

  • Education Department OKs Student Loan Servicing Contract Transfer to Maximus; Teresa Weipert Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Education Department OKs Student Loan Servicing Contract Transfer to Maximus; Teresa Weipert Quoted

    The Department of Education has given Maximus Federal the green light to take over as the contractor for the agency’s loan servicing. Maximus said Wednesday its Aidvantage division replaces Navient as the effort’s contractor, a role tasked to handle 5.6 million student loan accounts. Aidvantage aims to complete the transition by the end of the […] More

  • L3Harris to Provide Middle East Customer With Integrated ISR Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris to Provide Middle East Customer With Integrated ISR Products

    L3Harris Technologies will deliver intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance products to a Middle East customer under a recent $23 million foreign military sales order. The company said Monday it will provide the Integrated Tactical Area Communications Systems, ROVER transceivers, Falcon tactical radios and Hawkeye III very-small-aperture terminals, which will all be integrated into the customer’s deployed […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Develops MOANA Coastal Survey Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Develops MOANA Coastal Survey Platform for Navy

    A lightweight system was introduced by Charles River Analytics, with funding support from the U.S. Navy, to allow kayaks to autonomously collect parameter data in coastal environments. The company said Tuesday its Modular Oceanographic Autonomous Navigating Assessor, developed under a $500,000 Navy contract, works to measure bathymetry, water column constituents, benthic properties, hyperspectral radiometry and […] More

  • Splunk Intros Government Cybersecurity-Focused Initiative; Teresa Carlson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Splunk Intros Government Cybersecurity-Focused Initiative; Teresa Carlson Quoted

    Splunk will offer discounted products and services to help federal agencies comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cyber response. The company said Tuesday its Government Logging Modernization Program will provide federal agency customers with cloud packages, lower-cost storage options, exclusive programmatic pricing, security expertise and cloud migration assessments. Cloud packages and migration services […] More

  • Hensoldt, QinetiQ Partner to Pursue US Defense, Security Opportunities; Ken Loy Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hensoldt, QinetiQ Partner to Pursue US Defense, Security Opportunities; Ken Loy Quoted

    The U.S. business arms of Hensoldt and QinetiQ are looking to work on collaborative engagements in the country’s defense and national security markets and, in connection, have entered into an agreement to create a strategic partnership framework. The companies will strategically cooperate to develop, integrate, test and field Hensoldt’s sensing technologies for national security projects, […] More

  • Intel Provides AI Expertise to Support Research About Radiation Exposure Impacts on Astronauts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Provides AI Expertise to Support Research About Radiation Exposure Impacts on Astronauts

    Frontier Development Lab, a public/private partnership with NASA, commercial artificial intelligence partners and private sector companies, worked with Intel AI Mentors to study how radiation exposure can physiologically affect astronauts. Intel said Monday its AI technology helped the SETI Institute-hosted lab develop an algorithm to identify cancer biomarkers based on radiation exposure data of both […] More

  • KBR to Update Transport IT Systems Under $127M DOT Contract; Stuart Bradie Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR to Update Transport IT Systems Under $127M DOT Contract; Stuart Bradie Quoted

    KBR will support modernization efforts at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Massachusetts under a four-year, $126.7 million recompete contract. The company said Monday it will help the Department of Transportation-owned center to update logistical, technical and safety systems as part of the Mission Information Technology Support contract. “This win is one more step […] More

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai: US Needs to Actively Address Foreign Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google CEO Sundar Pichai: US Needs to Actively Address Foreign Cyber Threats

    Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, has encouraged the federal government to draft a policy that actively addresses international cyber threats and fosters cyber innovation considering the previous cybersecurity breaches attributed to hackers from China and Russia, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In an interview, Pichai said the increasingly connected world […] More

  • Ajay Guru Joins Guidehouse Financial Services to Help Drive Fraud Tech Service Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ajay Guru Joins Guidehouse Financial Services to Help Drive Fraud Tech Service Efforts

    Ajay Guru, former senior vice president at CO-OP Financial Services, has been appointed as partner at Guidehouse‘s financial services segment, where he will support delivery of fraud risk and compliance offerings to customers. He will be responsible for helping lead company efforts to address business fraud challenges through its fraud technology services, Guidehouse said Tuesday. […] More

  • Level Access' Digital Accessibility Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level Access’ Digital Accessibility Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization

    Level Access‘ accessibility management platform has achieved authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and can now be used by federal agencies. The company said Thursday its AMP platform is designed to help organizations manage digital accessibility activities, including testing, reporting, guidance and continuous learning. The FedRAMP authorization allows federal agencies to use […] More

  • ULA Rocket Lifts Off NASA's Lucy Spacecraft for Asteroid Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Rocket Lifts Off NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft for Asteroid Exploration

    United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket has launched a NASA spacecraft designed for a 12-year mission to help researchers study the Trojan asteroids that share the orbit of Jupiter around the sun. The Lucy spacecraft embarked on an interplanetary trajectory from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 16, ULA said Saturday. Lucy will fly […] More