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  • Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue University Prof Receives Energy Dept Grant to Support Aluminum Research

    The Energy Department‘s Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded a $450,000 grant to Xinghang Zhang, a professor at Purdue University’s school of materials engineering, to support his three-year research project on the strength of aluminum. Purdue said Aug. 9 the “Deformation Mechanisms of Nanotwinned Aluminum and Binary Aluminum Alloys” project will use a transmission electron microscope to analyze the […] More

  • DOE, Indian S&T Ministry to Help Fund Smart Grid, Energy Storage Research Under US-India Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, Indian S&T Ministry to Help Fund Smart Grid, Energy Storage Research Under US-India Partnership

    A partnership between the U.S. and India that seeks to advance grid modernization will collaborate with the private sectors in the respective countries to provide a $30 million funding opportunity for a five-year smart grid and energy storage research project. The Energy Department and India’s ministry of science and technology will each allot $7.5 million over five […] More

  • DHS Seeks Academic Institution to Lead New CoE for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Academic Institution to Lead New CoE for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis

    The Department of Homeland Security plans to provide $40 million in funds to an institution that will lead a new center of excellence for homeland security quantitative analysis. DHS said Monday the funds will cover 10 years of CoE operations under a cooperative agreement with the lead institution. The department added it also seeks potential partners from academia, industry, federally funded research […] More

  • IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA to Host Data Retrieval Tech Proposers Day

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a proposers’ day conference on Sept. 27 in Washington to brief interested organizations on a multilingual data collection system development program. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 1 it will discuss the objectives of the agency’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language  initiative and field questions […] More

  • CH2M to Help Create Guidance for Airport Maintenance Management System Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M to Help Create Guidance for Airport Maintenance Management System Implementation

    CH2M will serve as a research partner to the Airport Cooperative Research Program in an effort to develop guidance for computer maintenance management system updates at airports. John Fortin, CH2M principal investigator, and Laith Alfaqih, deputy PI and project manager, will lead the research project that seeks to provide recommendations for utilizing a CMMS for airport maintenance, the company said […] More

  • L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract

    An L-3 Communications division has received an initial $23.5 million task order to provide training systems to the U.S. Air Force as part of a potential seven-year, $200 million contract awarded in April. L-3 said Wednesday its link simulation and training division will act as prime contractor on the Air Force’s Warfighter Readiness & Training program that seeks advanced tools for the military branch to train and […] More

  • Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract

    Harris has been awarded a potential $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform the first phase of a research and development program. The Defense Department said Tuesday DARPA will obligate $22.3 million in fiscal  year 2015 and fiscal 2016 R&D funds at the time of award. Ninety percent of contract-related work will occur in Palm Bay, Florida and the […] More

  • EMC Research Findings Show Economic Impact of Data Loss on Organizations; David Goulden Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC Research Findings Show Economic Impact of Data Loss on Organizations; David Goulden Comments

    A new EMC Corp. study reveals data loss incidents have manifested their economic impact on organizations as enterprises fail to respond to data protection challenges. The Global Data Protection Index 2016 report, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a lack of preparation for new and emerging threats among businesses, EMC said Tuesday. A survey among information […] More

  • Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract

    Bothell, Washington-based software development company Veramine has landed a $149,979 contract from the U.S. Air Force under the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct cyber deception research in support of the military branch’s network defense efforts, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes Veramine will design and develop tools for use in a representative cyber scenario as well as perform […] More

  • NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded Vibrent Health a five-year, $74 million contract to supply a technology platform for NIH to enroll and engage U.S. participants in the cohort program of the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Vibrent Health said Wednesday it will develop, test, maintain and update the platform for the nationwide medical research effort using data hosting services from Amazon […] More

  • AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate seeks white papers on ideas that support the research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of quantum computing sciences under a potential $40 million funding opportunity. According to a broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps, the funding opportunity aims to assess algorithm designs and technologies that utilize quantum annealing techniques in support of […] More

  • Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $40.8 million cost-share research-and-development contract to Composite Engineering Inc. to help the service branch develop an unmanned aerial system. The Defense Department said Friday CEI will design, build, assemble and test a technical baseline for a new long-range, high-speed UAS platform as well as identify key technology for future aircraft demonstrations and a vehicle for […] More