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  • Leidos Secures Naval Health Research Center Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Naval Health Research Center Support Extension

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $29 million prime contract to continue to provide research and development support services to the Naval Health Research Center’s Warfighter Performance department. The company said Monday it aims to identify methods to help increase operational performance and resilience of U.S. naval warfighters as well as optimize strategies for their health […] More

  • Amazon Unveils New R&D Facility in UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Unveils New R&D Facility in UK

    Amazon has opened a new 60,000-square-foot facility in Cambridge, England, that will house approximately 400 employees to perform research and development work on various technology platforms. The Amazon Development Center Cambridge is the second R&D facility the company established in the U.K. and will accommodate machine learning professionals, data scientists, software engineers, mathematical modelers and […] More

  • Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment

    A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

  • Orbital ATK’s Pat Nolan: High-Speed Weapon Investments Could Drive Rocket Engine Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Pat Nolan: High-Speed Weapon Investments Could Drive Rocket Engine Demand

    Orbital ATK and other rocket-motor manufacturers plan to increase investments in advanced rocket engines as the Defense Department intends to make a $2 billion investment in hypersonic missiles, lasers and other high-speed weapons over the next five years, Space News reported Tuesday. Pat Nolan, a vice president at Orbital ATK, told Space News at the […] More

  • Leidos to Develop Electro-Optical Imaging Tech Prototypes for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Develop Electro-Optical Imaging Tech Prototypes for Air Force

    Leidos has won a potential $47.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop integrated electro-optical imaging technology prototypes. The Defense Department said Thursday the project aims to evolve and increase the capacity of emerging high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging; infrared search and track; and sense and avoid technologies. The Air Force Research […] More

  • Siemens to Open Chicago-Based Digital Tech R&D Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens to Open Chicago-Based Digital Tech R&D Hub

    Siemens plans to invest more than $20 million annually in a research and development center in Chicago that will focus on internet of things and cloud computing applications for the company’s control products and systems business. The Siemens Building Technologies CPS Software House is scheduled to open next month and seeks to employ more than 100 professionals who […] More

  • NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will award approximately $3.9 million in total grants to 21 small businesses to research and develop novel technology platforms. NIST said Monday it selected the companies based on their submitted proposals that seek to address challenges across several technology areas such as collaboration and partnership; precision measurements; systems; data […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Stephen Marker, Director of Product Strategy, Cyber and Electronic Warfare Systems of General Dynamics Mission Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Stephen Marker, Director of Product Strategy, Cyber and Electronic Warfare Systems of General Dynamics Mission Systems

    “This threat that legacy equipment poses across all of our industries is truly one of the things that keeps me up at night.” EM: How has your work experience prepared you for your current position? Stephen Marker: My current role is director of product strategy within cyber and electronic warfare systems, focusing on which markets […] More

  • Vencore to Conduct Oceanography R&D for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Conduct Oceanography R&D for Navy

    Vencore has won a potential five-year, $22.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct a research and development project that will focus on ocean dynamics and prediction oceanography. The service branch received multiple offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a broad agency announcement from the Naval Research Laboratory and obligated $741,951 in working capital funds at the time […] More

  • DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices

    The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute has received a $640,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to conduct research work on prepositioned cyber threats in mobile devices. CIRI, a DHS S&T Center of Excellence, will establish a framework for mobile device operating systems that can help automatically determine threats that sprout from personal […] More

  • DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts

    The Department of Homeland Security‘ science and technology directorate has awarded $8.6 million in contracts to five research and development projects that aim to help increase the security of mobile applications for the federal government. Recipients of the grants are Apcerto, Lookout, United Technologies Corp.‘s research center, Qualcomm and a Red Hat–Kryptowire team, DHS said Wednesday. The projects […] More

  • CICP's Applied Research Institute to Invest in Microelectronics R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CICP’s Applied Research Institute to Invest in Microelectronics R&D

    A newly established institute of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation will invest approximately $3.5 million over the next two years to support research and development efforts on microelectronics, Government Technology reported Friday. The Applied Research Institute will look to create microelectronics technologies that can mitigate counterfeit challenges and cyber attacks to help members of the […] More