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  • Carahsoft Adds Pindrop's Call Authentication, Fraud Detection Products to GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Pindrop’s Call Authentication, Fraud Detection Products to GSA Schedule

    Carahsoft will offer government customers access to Pindrop-developed voice call  authentication and fraud detection systems via the former’s General Services Administration schedule contract. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will serve as the master government aggregator of Pindrop’s Phoneprinting and Phoneprint platforms that work to help operators assess the identity of callers. “By detecting threats sooner and with more accuracy, government agencies are able to reduce fraud losses […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for Joint NASA-India Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for Joint NASA-India Satellite

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has completed the preliminary design review of a radar antenna reflector technology the business developed for a joint satellite project between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization. Northrop said Tuesday the AstroMesh reflector will be integrated onto the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite that will operate at L-band and S-band frequencies to offer scientists a detailed view of […] More

  • Jacobs to Help England Highway Agency Develop Road Improvement Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help England Highway Agency Develop Road Improvement Strategies

    Highways England has partnered with Jacobs Engineering Group to identify design options for multiple planned road improvement projects in the east, southeast and northwest regions of England. Jacobs said Tuesday it will provide engineering design services for civil engineering works and traffic technology, surveys, stakeholder engagement, traffic and building information modeling, environmental and principal designer services to Highways England. The stage two […] More

  • Mission Secure Inc. Rebrands as MSi, Expands Focus on Cyber Defense Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mission Secure Inc. Rebrands as MSi, Expands Focus on Cyber Defense Market

    Mission Secure Inc. has rebranded itself as “MSi” and launched a new website in an effort to reflect the Virginia-based cyber defense firm’s expanded market scope. The company said Thursday it offers critical assets, infrastructure, processes and controls systems protection technology and support services to the defense and commercial sectors. “Many industries rely on [operational technology] and control systems to run their operations,” said David Drescher, […] More

  • Airbus Unit Launches Comms System to Aid NextGen 9-1-1 Transition Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Unit Launches Comms System to Aid NextGen 9-1-1 Transition Efforts

    A business unit within Airbus Group‘s defense and space segment has unveiled a new public safety communications system that works to combine equipment, software and services in efforts to help federal agencies transition to Next Generation 9-1-1. The company said Monday Airbus DS Communications‘ VESTA NEXT portfolio offering includes IP call handling, call routing, ESInet and GIS functions as […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for 'EXTREME' Optics and Imaging Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for ‘EXTREME’ Optics and Imaging Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s defense sciences office will host a proposers day to discuss a program that aims to develop optical systems with upgraded performance, new functions and reduced size and weight. DARPA said Monday the proposers day for the EXTREME Optics and Imaging program will take place Sept. 1 via webcast in an effort to help […] More

  • UAS Magazine: Intel Seeks Unmanned Market Expansion Through Drone Tech Development & Advisory Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UAS Magazine: Intel Seeks Unmanned Market Expansion Through Drone Tech Development & Advisory Roles

    Intel is continuing its push establish a presence in the unmanned aerial systems market through the development of obstacle avoidance technology and advisory roles of the company’s leaders in the UAS community, UAS Magazine reported Monday. Luke Geiver writes the company has integrated and tested its RealSense sensor package to measure its capacity to provide common drones with autonomous flight, […] More

  • DSS to Provide Integrated GUI Apps for VA's Health Info Architecture Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSS to Provide Integrated GUI Apps for VA’s Health Info Architecture Modernization Effort

    Document Storage Systems has secured a potential four-year, $44 million contract to provide logistics and prosthetics graphical user interface overlay software licenses and maintenance services to the Department of Veterans Affairs. DSS said Monday it will implement the Advanced Prosthetics Acquisition Tool, Above PAR and Enterprise Reporting applications to help the VA modernize the department’s  Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture as […] More

  • Orbital ATK, NASA Continue SLS Rocket Booster Test Data Analysis; Mat Bevill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, NASA Continue SLS Rocket Booster Test Data Analysis; Mat Bevill Comments

    NASA engineers continue to analyze data collected from the second qualification test conducted on Orbital ATK-built booster for the Space Launch System to demonstrate the technology’s power and operations capacity. The assessment took place June 28 at Orbital ATK’s facility in Utah and aimed to evaluate the SLS booster against 82 qualification test objectives that were measured through more than 530 instrumentation […] More

  • SolarCity, Balfour Beatty Complete Solar Panel Installation at 2 Army Bases - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SolarCity, Balfour Beatty Complete Solar Panel Installation at 2 Army Bases

    Balfour Beatty Communities and SolarCity have installed more than 18,000 solar panels at U.S. Army multi-family housing, community and maintenance facilities at Fort Detrick in Maryland and Fort Carson in Colorado. Balfour Beatty said Friday the SolarCity-built power systems will work to generate more than 4.7 megawatts of solar energy to power approximately 1,200 housing units across […] More

  • DHS Taps DynCorp Subsidiary for Elicitation, Deception Detection Training Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps DynCorp Subsidiary for Elicitation, Deception Detection Training Contract

    A DynCorp International subsidiary has been awarded a potential $700,000 contract by the Department of Homeland Security to provide elicitation and detecting deception training services to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s office of international operations. The company said Tuesday its Phoenix Consulting Group will train the department’s visa security program agents to identify applicants who could be a potential threat to the […] More

  • IRS Alerts Tax Professionals on Emerging Tax Software Phishing Email Scam - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Alerts Tax Professionals on Emerging Tax Software Phishing Email Scam

    The Internal Revenue Service has alerted tax professionals on an emerging phishing email scam that tricks recipients into clicking on a bogus link by pretending to be from tax software providers. The IRS said Thursday fraudsters use the email scam in an attempt to steal sensitive information such as passwords, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers or to make unnecessary […] More