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  • Rick Wagner: Microsoft Builds Up Cloud Capabilities to Support DOD JWCC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Wagner: Microsoft Builds Up Cloud Capabilities to Support DOD JWCC

    Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s federal arm and five-time Wash100 winner, said the company will continue to develop cloud capabilities and strategic partnerships to meet the Department of Defense’s joint warfighting needs and allow the military to establish an enterprise-level tactical cloud environment.  He wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Microsoft’s work on […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract

    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More

  • DOD Backs Kinetic Tech Production via Contract Awards; Halimah Najieb-Locke Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Backs Kinetic Tech Production via Contract Awards; Halimah Najieb-Locke Quoted

    The Department of Defense has awarded contracts through the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment and Defense Production Act Title III programs in a push to reduce supply chain vulnerabilities associated with the production of kinetic weapons systems for national security use. The office of the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy within the […] More

  • Google Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

    Google Cloud’s service offering has received a Defense Information Systems Agency provisional authorization to host Department of Defense data at Impact Level 5. DISA said Tuesday the IL5 provisional authorization covers several services, including BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Hardware Security Module, Cloud Key Management Service, Google Compute Engine, Identity and Access Management, Persistent Disk […] More

  • Army Seeks Proposals for Watercraft System Technical Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Proposals for Watercraft System Technical Support

    A U.S. Army command is soliciting proposals for a contract to provide a range of non-personnel support services to the Army Watercraft Systems. In a notice posted on SAM.gov, the Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command said that it will award a potential $58.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to a vendor that can deliver design, engineering, maintenance […] More

  • DARPA Seeking Proposals for Infrastructure-less Launch, Recovery UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeking Proposals for Infrastructure-less Launch, Recovery UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a solicitation for a new development and demonstration program for an unmanned X-plane capable of vertical landing and take-off and long endurance leap-ahead in small spaces. The SAM.gov notice posted on Thursday centers on the Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-less Launch and Recovery, or ANCILLARY, project. DARPA is looking […] More

  • Softrams Establishes Advisory Board; Atchut Kanthamani Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Softrams Establishes Advisory Board; Atchut Kanthamani Quoted

    Softrams has created an advisory board meant to provide guidance on strategic growth and leadership to the Leesburg, Virginia-based software company’s executive team. Cybersecurity veteran Jason Weiss was named as the first member of the board, which is expected to be filled with more members going forward, the company said Friday. Weiss carries with him 30 […] More

  • SBA, DOD Unveil Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA, DOD Unveil Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative

    The Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense have launched an initiative to drive investments in critical technologies that are key to national security. The Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative advances the current administration’s commitment to building the country’s national security innovation base by scaling new technology platforms. “Earlier this week, I […] More

  • USAF Vet Aaron Prupas Named Strategic Adviser at Cognitive Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Vet Aaron Prupas Named Strategic Adviser at Cognitive Space

    Aaron Prupas, a retired U.S. Air Force major general, has joined Cognitive Space to serve as a strategic adviser at the Houston, Texas-headquartered satellite software developer. In this role, Prupas will help guide Cognitive Space in building partnerships and expanding its presence in the defense and intelligence sectors, the company said Thursday.  Prupas previously functioned […] More

  • DARPA Posts Presolicitation Notice for Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Posts Presolicitation Notice for Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a presolicitation notice for a potential $78 million contract that aims to provide for the development of a command and control system to enable different types of unmanned systems to perform in contested environments.  DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office is seeking innovative proposals from industry sources capable of […] More

  • DOD Office Recommends Rafael-Built System for Counter-Drone as a Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Office Recommends Rafael-Built System for Counter-Drone as a Service

    The U.S. subsidiary of Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has secured a recommendation from the Department of Defense to offer a counter-small unmanned aerial system platform to military customers. The endorsement from the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office comes after Rafael Systems Global Sustainment completed a test series for the Drone Dome offering […] More

  • Intel, Lockheed Host 5G Base Station Tech on Flyable Hardware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel, Lockheed Host 5G Base Station Tech on Flyable Hardware

    Lockheed Martin and Intel have implemented 5G communications capabilities on flight-ready hardware using commercial 5G standards and open systems architecture as part of efforts to improve connectivity and accelerate decision-making for military operators across domains. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed said Monday it integrated a 5G Core and Open Radio Access Network technology into its 5G.MIL Hybrid […] More