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  • AquaHarmonics Wins DOE Wave Energy Converter Devt Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AquaHarmonics Wins DOE Wave Energy Converter Devt Competition

    AquaHarmonics has won a $1.5 million grand prize in the Energy Department‘s design-build-test competition that aims to support the development of wave energy converters. DoE said Wednesday CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America will receive $500,000 and $250,000 in respective cash prizes as second and third place winners of the Wave Energy Prize. “This competition set a difficult threshold […] More

  • Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs

    Raytheon looks to add up to 2,000 positions over the next five years through an expansion of the defense company’s missile systems business headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. Raytheon said Friday it will hire workers at all skill levels to serve in engineering and higher-wage technical roles. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon’s missile systems unit, said that several Arizona-based organizations will help the company meet workforce and infrastructure needs to […] More

  • BAE Develops Bendable Titanium Alloy Suspension System for Military Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Develops Bendable Titanium Alloy Suspension System for Military Vehicles

    BAE Systems has developed a bendable titanium alloy suspension system that the company said has the potential to protect military vehicles from explosive impacts. The suspension system is based on the hard shells and legs of ironclad beetles and the system uses memory metal alloy to “bounce back” into shape after impact, BAE said Sunday. Marcus Potter, head of mobility at […] More

  • Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards

    Authentic8 has updated its virtual browser to validate users with government-issued common access cards in efforts to help address federal customers’ demand for added CAC functionality. The company said Thursday its Silo virtual browser will be configured with the Defense Department‘s public certificates. “Support for CAC authentication ranked high on our customers’ list of requested enhancements,” said Authentic8 co-founder and […] More

  • USPS Deploys Honeywell-Built Handheld Computers to Track Parcels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USPS Deploys Honeywell-Built Handheld Computers to Track Parcels

    The U.S. Postal Service has begun to use more than 5,000 Honeywell-built handheld computers in efforts to expand the agency’s parcel tracking network. Honeywell said Wednesday its CN51 rugged handheld computers will support USPS’ Surface Visibility program and help postal workers internally track packages from pickup to delivery. “As consumers continue to expect fast, accurate delivery, the Postal […] More

  • Carahsoft Offers LexisNexis' Legal Software Products on GSA Schedule, NASA SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers LexisNexis’ Legal Software Products on GSA Schedule, NASA SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft and LexisNexis have entered an agreement to offer the latter company’s legal software products to the federal government through Carahsoft’s positions on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicles. The partnership seeks to increase public sector demand for LexisNexis’ business of law software portfolio designed to support case analysis, presentation, legal and eDiscovery management processes, Carahsoft […] More

  • IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience

    A new study backed by the Ponemon Institute and IBM‘s Resilient subsidiary says 32 percent of information technology and security personnel claim there is a high level of cyber resilience in their organizations. IBM said Wednesday Ponemon interviewed 2,400 security and IT respondents across the world for the Resilient-sponsored 2016 Cyber Resilient Organization study. “This year’s Cyber Resilience […] More

  • CGI Awarded GAO Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Awarded GAO Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration Contract

    CGI has received a potential five-year, $7.2 million contract to help the Government Accountability Office transition GAO’s financial management, budgeting and procurement systems to a cloud infrastructure. The company said Wednesday it will use the Momentum enterprise platform within the Legislative Branch Financial Management System shared services environment to support GAO’s cloud migration effort. Momentum is part of the government’s […] More

  • Millennium Secures Army Professional Services Support Task Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Millennium Secures Army Professional Services Support Task Orders

    Millennium has secured two task orders worth $35.8 million combined to provide support for the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for intelligence electronic warfare and sensors as well as the Distributed Common Ground System – Army project manager. The company said Tuesday it received the orders under a potential $248 million contract vehicle that covers technical, program, operations, acquisition […] More

  • Advanced IT Concepts Awarded Army Program Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Advanced IT Concepts Awarded Army Program Support Contracts

    Advanced IT Concepts has received $3.9 million in contract awards to provide program support for the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence Center of Excellence. AITC said Tuesday it will partner with Intelligence, Communications and Engineering in efforts to develop unit and collective task lists for the Theater Intelligence Brigade and other military intelligence units under the contracts. The company added the contracts will support […] More

  • Dominion Consulting to Help VA Adopt USDA's Financial Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dominion Consulting to Help VA Adopt USDA’s Financial Mgmt Platform

    Dominion Consulting has received a contract of an undisclosed value to support the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ migration to the Agriculture Department‘s financial management platform, AlexandriaNews reported Thursday. The report said the contract covers independent validation and verification services intended to help VA replace its current mainframe legacy financial system with the CGI-built Momentum platform. The General Services Administration and the Office […] More

  • Army Seeks R&D, Technical Support Sources for Cybersecurity Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks R&D, Technical Support Sources for Cybersecurity Program

    The U.S. Army has begun to search for industry sources of research and development and technical services that could support the Army Research Laboratory’s cybersecurity service provider. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday stated ARL will use information from the responses to identify interested vendors and formulate a strategy for a planned solicitation on a contract with one base year […] More