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  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Inmarsat Government Supports Gov’t Airborne, Maritime Ops via Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Inmarsat Government Supports Gov’t Airborne, Maritime Ops via Satcom

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, told the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in a video interview posted Friday how the company supports government operations through its satellite communications platforms. She said satellites placed approximately 35K kilometers above the equator and ground stations that back those spacecraft work to provide users […] More

  • Northrop Announces OmegA Rocket Development Milestones; Mike Laidley Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Announces OmegA Rocket Development Milestones; Mike Laidley Quoted

    Northrop Grumman has completed development and testing work on the OmegA rocket’s first and second stage components. The company said Friday it also concluded the rocket’s cryostage design and developmental testing phase as well as the preliminary design of the launch system. Northrop reported the recent milestones days after it secured a potential $791.6M other-transaction […] More

  • DARPA Unveils 8 Awardees on Second OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Solicits Offers for Third Core Area - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Unveils 8 Awardees on Second OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Solicits Offers for Third Core Area

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the eight awardees for the second sprint of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program and started to solicit proposals for the third sprint. OFFSET seeks to use swarms of up to 250 unmanned systems designed to provide ground military units with insights as they face mobility and communications […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Potential RF Countermeasure Tech Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Potential RF Countermeasure Tech Support Sources

    The U.S. Army has started to solicit information on potential industry sources that can support radio frequency countermeasure systems and electronic warfare technologies covered by the service’s High Energy RF Operations program. A FedBizOpps notice published Thursday says the Army is looking for potential contractors that can help design, build and test software and hardware […] More

  • Tony Moraco Talks SAIC’s Integration With Engility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Moraco Talks SAIC’s Integration With Engility

    Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Application International Corp., has said he believes SAIC’s strategies and pipelines “are very much aligned” with that of Engility and that bodes well for the combined company once it competes for new business upon the deal’s completion, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. SAIC agreed to acquire Engility in September […] More

  • George Krivo: DynCorp Works With Air Force to Address Readiness Shortfall - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Krivo: DynCorp Works With Air Force to Address Readiness Shortfall

    George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday about the company’s efforts to help the U.S. Air Force address readiness shortfall. “We’re working with [Air Education and Training Command] to come up with a way that we think contractors can augment the U.S. Air Force pilot training capability, undergraduate pilot training capability, […] More

  • Report: SSA Seeks Proposals for Enterprise Small Business IT Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: SSA Seeks Proposals for Enterprise Small Business IT Support Services Contract

    The Social Security Administration has issued a solicitation for a potential five-year contract for information technology services to modernize an insurance program for the elderly, people with disabilities, blind and disadvantaged children, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The Enterprise Small Business IT Support Services contract covers task areas in support of the Old Age, Survivors and Disability […] More

  • DARPA to Discuss Machine Common Sense Program at Proposers Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Discuss Machine Common Sense Program at Proposers Day

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Oct. 18 in Arlington, Va., to provide information on a program that seeks to introduce human common sense reasoning and knowledge into artificial intelligence-based machines. “The absence of common sense prevents an intelligent system from understanding its world, communicating naturally with people, behaving reasonably […] More

  • George Krivo: DynCorp Aims to Grow Scale Through M&As - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Krivo: DynCorp Aims to Grow Scale Through M&As

    George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, told Defense News in an interview published Wednesday that the company has begun to look at merger and acquisition opportunities as it aims to increase its scale to approximately $3B to $4B in annual revenue. “In the next six months to a year, you’ll see a whole bunch of […] More

  • Anthony Robbins: NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference to Feature Panel Discussions on Artificial Intelligence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anthony Robbins: NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference to Feature Panel Discussions on Artificial Intelligence

    NVIDIA will kick off the third annual GPU Technology Conference on artificial intelligence on Oct. 22 at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C. Anthony Robbins, vice president for the North American public sector at NVIDIA, wrote in a blog post published Monday the three-day GTC DC event will include panel discussions and forums on AI policy and […] More

  • Raytheon’s Todd Probert: US Military Works With Industry to Protect Systems From Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Todd Probert: US Military Works With Industry to Protect Systems From Cyber Threats

    Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon, has said the U.S. military has been collaborating with industry to safeguard its systems from cyber threats and understand the risks posed by vulnerabilities, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The military and Congress “must also increase funding specifically for cyber vulnerability assessments and cyber hardening,” Probert […] More

  • Treasury Dept Renews R&D Center Operation Contract With Mitre; Beth Meinert Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury Dept Renews R&D Center Operation Contract With Mitre; Beth Meinert Quoted

    Mitre will continue to operate a federally funded research and development center for the Treasury Department through 2023 under a contract extension. The Center for Enterprise Modernization FFRDC helps the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies at the Treasury meet mission-critical requirements by providing data-driven analysis, integration, systems engineering and decision support, Mitre said Wednesday. “Mitre […] More