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  • NASA, Orbital ATK Target October 9-13 Launch Window for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Orbital ATK Target October 9-13 Launch Window for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    NASA and Orbital ATK plan to launch a Cygnus spacecraft for its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station between October 9 and October 13 as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Wednesday Cygnus will lift off aboard an Orbital ATK-built Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Orbital […] More

  • Army Wants Info on IT Platform Sources for Cargo, Parachute Inventory Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Wants Info on IT Platform Sources for Cargo, Parachute Inventory Mgmt System

    The U.S. Army wants feedback from potential industry sources of a technology platform that could help the Army monitor its fleet of cargo and personnel parachute inventory. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday stated that respondents should have commercial-off-the-shelf software or can provide modified-off-the-shelf software that can support 150 locations worldwide, 500 to 750 active users and 100 to 200 users that can pull […] More

  • Stratcom’s Kenneth Callicutt, General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson Eye Drone Deployment in Contested Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratcom’s Kenneth Callicutt, General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson Eye Drone Deployment in Contested Environments

    Kenneth Callicutt, director of capability and resource integration at the U.S. Strategic Command, has said unmanned aircraft vehicles could be deployed in non-permissive environments, operate as part of a network and expand manned aircraft’s “sensor net,” Aviation International News reported Tuesday. Bill Carey writes Callicutt made the remarks Tuesday at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space […] More

  • ICF Adopts New Brand to Mark 10 Years as Public Company; Sudhakar Kesavan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Adopts New Brand to Mark 10 Years as Public Company; Sudhakar Kesavan Comments

    The Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting services contractor formerly known as ICF International has rebranded itself as “ICF” and adopted both a new logo and website in conjunction with its 10th anniversary as a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ. ICF said Tuesday it started its repositioning effort to further explain the company’s collaborations with clients, employees, investors and other stakeholders as the new […] More

  • Capgemini's US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini’s US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ

    Capgemini‘s U.S. government subsidiary will relocate its Washington, D.C. and Reston, Virginia operations to a consolidated headquarters site in Tysons Corner, Virginia under a lease transaction. Commercial real estate advisory firm Serten Advisors said Tuesday that Capgemini Government Solutions will occupy 15,301 square feet of office space at the new 1765 Greensboro Station Place location that is adjacent to the Metrorail Silver Line’s […] More

  • Marine Corps Orders Bren-Tronics Rugged Battery Chargers; Per Sai Fung Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Orders Bren-Tronics Rugged Battery Chargers; Per Sai Fung Comments

    Bren-Tronics has been awarded a potential five-year, $38 million contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to produce and deliver portable battery charging systems as part of the Marine Corps Systems Command’s 2016 acquisition strategy. The contract contains one base year and four option years and the company will start delivery of its Advanced Battery Chargers to the service branch in the […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils Bioenergy Facility in New York - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils Bioenergy Facility in New York

    Lockheed Martin has launched a new facility in Owego, New York, designed to convert waste into renewable energy. Lockheed said Tuesday its bioenergy plant implements a system that uses a Concord Blue-built technology platform that works to derive electricity from waste through the advanced gasification process. The advanced gasification process involves the collection and use of wood-waste, industrial […] More

  • CH2M-Hill International Team to Help Amtrak Manage Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M-Hill International Team to Help Amtrak Manage Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement Project

    Intercity passenger rail operator Amtrak has selected a team comprised of CH2M and Hill International to support management of a project to renovate and expand the Northeast Corridor rail infrastructure. The CH2M-Hill International team will work with Amtrak to help increase the capacity of tracks, tunnels, bridges and stations between Newark in New Jersey and New York City’s Penn […] More

  • Dell's Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell’s Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps

    Cameron Chehreh, federal chief technology officer at Dell, has said chief information officers at agencies should adopt incremental modernization strategies to update legacy applications. Chehreh told MeriTalk writer Mary Tobin in an interview posted Monday that legacy applications represent many of the challenges federal CIOs will face as agencies work to comply with the Office of Management and Budget‘s Data Center Optimization Initiative. […] More

  • ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26

    United Launch Alliance has updated the estimated launch date of a DigitalGlobe commercial imaging satellite due to the availability of Vandenberg Air Force Base’s western range. ULA said Sunday the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite will launch to space no earlier than Sept. 26. The satellite and the ULA Atlas V rocket that will carry it are currently housed in the mobile service tower at Vandenberg […] More

  • Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria

    Australia-based Immuron has entered a research and development collaboration agreement with the Naval Medical Research Center to test the bio-pharmaceutical company’s drug against gastrointestinal problems. The company said Aug. 30 it will test the Travelan dietary supplement against Campylobacter and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli gram-negative bacteria to help develop therapeutics in an effort to protect military and civilian populations from diarrhea. Immuron and NMRC researchers […] More

  • State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt

    The State Department has approved Egypt’s request to purchase Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 radars, High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles Ml 152 and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon, will serve as principal contractor for the sale that covers eight Sentinel radars, 16 HMMWV Ml 152 […] More