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  • ID.me-Salesforce Team to Help Manage Applications for Veteran Employment Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me-Salesforce Team to Help Manage Applications for Veteran Employment Program

    ID.me has teamed up with Salesforce to manage and assess the eligibility of applicants that look to utilize the latter company’s veteran employment program. VetForce provides free access to IT and business certification courses for members of the military community and works to match transitioning veterans with job positions that fit their respective skill sets and qualifications, Salesforce said […] More

  • Iron Mountain Unveils Spokane Facility for Data Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Unveils Spokane Facility for Data Mgmt Services

    Iron Mountain has opened a new record storage, shredding and document imaging facility in Spokane, Washington to serve the area’s business community. The company said Thursday the 40,000 square foot establishment features a total storage capacity of 416,000 cubic feet, on-site imaging on demand and information destruction services. Ben Whitley, an Iron Mountain district manager, […] More

  • Grant Thornton Moves Hartford, Conn. Office to Downtown Location; Frank Kurre Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Moves Hartford, Conn. Office to Downtown Location; Frank Kurre Comments

    Grant Thornton has transferred its Hartford operations in Connecticut from an office building at 175 Capital Blvd. to a leased space at 90 State House Square located within the city’s primary business district. The company said Wednesday its new 7,928-square-foot facility in downtown Hartford features conference and team rooms with audiovisual and video conferencing systems. Frank Kurre, managing partner for Grant Thornton’s […] More

  • NASA, Lockheed Engineers Test Orion EM-1 Spacecraft Pressure Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Lockheed Engineers Test Orion EM-1 Spacecraft Pressure Vessel

    A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has conducted proof evaluations on a pressure vessel for the Orion Exploration Mission-1 crew module at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tests aimed to validate if Orion’s underlying structure can withstand loads and forces that spacecraft normally experiences during launch and landing, NASA said Wednesday. Orion program technicians attached […] More

  • Denmark's Govt Issues $3B Lockheed F-35 Purchase Recommendation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark’s Govt Issues $3B Lockheed F-35 Purchase Recommendation

    Denmark’s government has issued a recommendation for the military to purchase $3 billion in Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jets to replace the country’s legacy F-16 jets that are slated for retirement, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lara Seligman and Gerard O’Dwyer write that Denmark’s legislature will debate the blueprint for close to a month before the country arrives at a final decision. […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build, Implement Contract Writing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build, Implement Contract Writing System

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on potential industry sources that can help the service branch to design, build, test, implement and sustain an enterprise-grade contract writing system. In a FedBizOpps notice published Monday, the Air Force looks to configure and further develop the Defense Information Systems Agency-hosted Integrated Defense Enterprise Acquisition System as part […] More

  • Scout Warrior: Army Tests Multiple Vehicle-Mounted Active Protections Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scout Warrior: Army Tests Multiple Vehicle-Mounted Active Protections Systems

    The U.S. Army is testing a range of vehicle-mounted systems that feature radar, computer processing, fire control technology and interceptors to detect and destroy enemy fire, Scout Warrior reported Tuesday. Kris Osborn writes the Army is looking at both domestically produced and allied international technologies to take part in the Modular Active Protection Systems program. The service branch wants […] More

  • NASA Seeks Early Stage Tech Proposals from Universities for Future Space Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Early Stage Tech Proposals from Universities for Future Space Missions

    NASA has started its solicitation of early-stage space technology proposals from universities to support the agency’s future space programs that include a human exploration of Mars. The agency said Thursday its space technology mission directorate plans to grant $500,000 each for 10 to 12 proposals from accredited U.S. universities. “We’d like to see Early Stage Innovations proposals that address our need for unique, disruptive […] More

  • Tel-Instrument Electronics Receives Army Orders for Test Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tel-Instrument Electronics Receives Army Orders for Test Sets

    The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.3 million order to Tel-Instrument Electronics for the delivery of CRAFT 708 units with scheduled deliveries for the second calendar year quarter. Tel-Instrument Electronics also received orders from the U.S. Navy for four CRAFT 708 test sets for the U.S. Presidential Helicopter program, Tel-Instrument Electronics said Thursday. The company also unveiled […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $40.8 million contract modification to provide engineering support for AN/SQQ-89A surface ship undersea warfare systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract for the development, integration and production of an  AN/SQQ-89A variant. The system is designed to search, detect, classify, localize and […] More

  • SpaceX Spacecraft Brings Back NASA Research Cargo From 8th ISS Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Spacecraft Brings Back NASA Research Cargo From 8th ISS Resupply Mission

    SpaceX‘s Dragon spacecraft has returned to Earth with 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo including science and technology samples after a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The space agency said Thursday the spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday and will be shipped to California to unload some cargo for NASA and prepare for transport to SpaceX’s facility in […] More

  • NetApp to Support Seminole County Public Schools through Storage & Backup-to-Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp to Support Seminole County Public Schools through Storage & Backup-to-Cloud Services

    NetApp will provide its storage and backup-to-cloud services for data access and application response to more than 40 departments across the public school district of Seminole County, Florida. The company will offer its NetApp FAS8040HA and AltaVault products to assist Seminole County schools in supporting new applications and objectives, meeting workload needs through hybrid storage array and data […] More