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  • Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon

    The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Construction Work on X-59 Supersonic Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Construction Work on X-59 Supersonic Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is designed to travel at a speed of approximately 940 miles per hour at 55K feet and reduce sonic boom noise […] More

  • JBG Smith Selected for Amazon Northern Virginia HQ Development Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    JBG Smith Selected for Amazon Northern Virginia HQ Development Project

    Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at its buildings through an agreement. Northern Virginia’s Arlington is one of the two locations […] More

  • Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Anticipates Threat Actors to Leverage AI, Machine Learning in 2019

    Fortinet’s threat research arm predicts cyber adversaries will exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning to launch attacks on organizations’ networks and other information technology infrastructure in 2019 and beyond. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs expect cyber criminals to accelerate zero-day attacks through the use of the AI fuzzing technique, the company said Thursday. AI fuzzing works […] More

  • Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta, Abaco Systems Enter Cyber Tech Marketing Partnership

    Perspecta has teamed up with Abaco Systems through its research arm to market a data bus platform that works to help warfighters safeguard weapons systems from cyber attacks. Perspecta Labs developed the 1553 Bus Defender platform, also called MIL-STD-1553, under a research program of the Defense Department, the company said Thursday. Abaco has begun to […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Counter-Hypersonics Tech Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Counter-Hypersonics Tech Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to solicit proposals to research and develop technology platforms that will work to counter hypersonic vehicles. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement posted Nov. 6 on FedBizOpps the Glide Breaker program wants prospective offerors to build and demonstrate platforms designed to intercept moving hypersonic threats in […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Opens Offices in Australia, UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Opens Offices in Australia, UK

    In-Q-Tel has set up new offices in Sydney and London to gain access to startups with novel commercial technologies that can aid intelligence and national security missions of the U.S. and international partners. Peter Tague, an executive vice president at IQT, will oversee international efforts, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Tague is former vice chairman and co-head […] More

  • Northrop Targets Nov. 16 Launch for 10th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Targets Nov. 16 Launch for 10th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Northrop Grumman intends to launch on Friday, Nov. 16 its Cygnus spacecraft to deliver approximately 7.4K pounds of scientific equipment and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The scheduled liftoff of Cygnus from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia atop Northrop’s Antares rocket will mark the company’s 10th cargo resupply mission to ISS, the firm said Wednesday. […] More

  • Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg Optimistic on US Defense Budget - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg Optimistic on US Defense Budget

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg told FOX Business in an interview aired Tuesday that he believes U.S. spending on defense will remain robust amid calls for reduced budget and concerns over increasing federal deficit. “We see the defense budget here in the U.S. being sustained,” he told Maria Bartiromo of the channel’s “Mornings with Maria.” “If you look […] More

  • Richard Aboulafia: Supersonic Passenger Jets for Rescue Missions May Pique DoD’s Interest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Aboulafia: Supersonic Passenger Jets for Rescue Missions May Pique DoD’s Interest

    Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at Teal Group, has said the Defense Department might use supersonic transport aircraft to immediately bring search-and-rescue teams and senior officials to the battlefield to carry out missions, Defense One reported Tuesday. “Very few people realize that hostage rescue and other high-value assets need to be deployed at the same […] More

  • Raytheon’s Todd Probert, Pivotal’s Keith Salisbury: DoD Needs to Field Software at Speed of Relevance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Todd Probert, Pivotal’s Keith Salisbury: DoD Needs to Field Software at Speed of Relevance

    Todd Probert of Raytheon and Keith Salisbury of Pivotal Software have said the Defense Department needs to adopt modern software development processes and tools to accelerate the deployment of initial operating capability applications to warfighters within days. Probert and Salisbury wrote in a Fifth Domain article published Nov. 1 how the U.S. Air Force works […] More

  • Ellen Lord: DoD, Lockheed Speed Up Negotiations on Lot 12 F-35 Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ellen Lord: DoD, Lockheed Speed Up Negotiations on Lot 12 F-35 Contract

    Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Defense Department, has said DoD and Lockheed Martin have accelerated efforts to finalize the 12th contract to procure at least 250 F-35 fighter aircraft, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “We are picking up the pace with Lot 12 and we plan to do the same with Lot 13,” Lord […] More