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  • Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient, Coast Guard Demo ViDAR Airborne Maritime Search and Surveillance System

    Sentient and the U.S. Coast Guard have tested a company-built airborne maritime search and surveillance system during a live demonstration conducted off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The Visual Detection and Ranging system trial aimed to highlight the system’s capacity to detect objects at a distance and was part of the Coast Guard’s assessment of small UAS technologies and sensors, Sentient said Sept. 29. The company demonstrated […] More

  • Microsoft Introduces Support Tool for Azure Govt Users in DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Introduces Support Tool for Azure Govt Users in DoD

    Microsoft has released the Azure Blueprint tool for Defense Department clients in an effort to help Azure Government users at the agency attain authorizations to operate. Nate Johnson, a senior project manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Monday the Azure Blueprint has expanded in a push to aid DoD customers that utilize the Azure Government cloud platform […] More

  • Army Engineers' Water Resources Institute Seeks Analytics, Navigation Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Engineers’ Water Resources Institute Seeks Analytics, Navigation Support Sources

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a $48 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for analytical and professional navigation support services to the USACE’s Institute for Water Resources. USACE IWR issued a sources sought notice in search of potential industry partners  currently registered on the System for Award Management database, U.S. Federal Contractor Registration said Monday. The multiple-award […] More

  • Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments

    Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More

  • ICF Awarded 3-Year NIH IT Mgmt Services Task Order; Terry McKittrick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Awarded 3-Year NIH IT Mgmt Services Task Order; Terry McKittrick Comments

    ICF has secured a potential three-year, $14 million recompete task order for information technology support to National Institutes of Health‘s office of the chief information officer. ICF said Monday it will provide IT management, strategic advisory, planning and research services intended to help the NIH OCIO address technology requirements across the agency. The company will also conduct market research, studies […] More

  • Kitron to Produce Integrated Backplane Assembly for Lockheed's LRIP Lot 11 F-35s - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kitron to Produce Integrated Backplane Assembly for Lockheed’s LRIP Lot 11 F-35s

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Kitron a multimillion dollar contract to provide integrated backplane assembly for F-35 jets under low-rate initial production lot 11. Kitron said Tuesday it will manufacture, test, maintain and repair the IBA in F-35s as part of the manufacturing license agreement with Lockheed. “After years of supplying for the earlier stages of the low rate initial […] More

  • Esri Inaugurates Mapping & Spatial Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Inaugurates Mapping & Spatial Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud

    Esri has made available its enterprise mapping and spatial analytics platform on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud to support the deployment of geographic information systems technology on Microsoft Azure virtual machines. A blog post published Friday on Microsoft’s website says ArcGIS for Server offers a web GIS environment for mapping and spatial analytics functions that feature maps and apps designed to be used and shared […] More

  • Airbus Taps Intelsat for Commercial Satellite Communication Services; Skot Butler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Taps Intelsat for Commercial Satellite Communication Services; Skot Butler Comments

    An Intelsat subsidiary has received a contract to provide commercial satellite communication services for an Airbus-provided European defense network. This long-term contract renewal will cover selected C- and Ku-band transponders across various Intelsat General satellites that support national and international voice and data applications for end-users. Skot Butler, Intelsat General president, said the company’s satellite systems […] More

  • Woolpert to Develop Master Plan for Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert to Develop Master Plan for Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport

    Woolpert has received a a contract from the city of Springfield, Ohio to develop a Federal Aviation Administration master plan and layout for the Springfield-Beckley municipal airport to detail the site’s existing configuration. The FAA will primarily fund the project while the city of Springfield and the Ohio Department of Transportation will provide additional financial support, Woolpert said Friday. Woolpert […] More

  • Battelle Supports Ohio Bid for USDOT Grant on Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Supports Ohio Bid for USDOT Grant on Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Research

    The Transportation Department has awarded a $6 million grant to a Battelle-backed team for a dedicated short-range communications system in central Ohio to support testing and research on connected and autonomous vehicles. Battelle said Thursday it has helped build the winning bid from the Dublin, Marysville and Union counties in Ohio to secure the grant to expand fiber optics and smart mobility technologies […] More

  • DARPA Program Eyes Alternative Agricultural Threat Response System Using Gene Therapy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Program Eyes Alternative Agricultural Threat Response System Using Gene Therapy

    A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program looks to develop an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response with the use of targeted gene therapy designed to protect plants within a growing process. DARPA said Wednesday the Insect Allies proposal will look to use a natural two-step delivery system that will transfer modified genes to plants via insect transmission to confer protective […] More