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  • Army Taps 5 Firms for Big Data Mgmt Dashboard Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps 5 Firms for Big Data Mgmt Dashboard Contracts

    Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More

  • Sehlke Consulting Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sehlke Consulting Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List

    Sehlke Consulting has been named to the Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 “fastest-growing” U.S. companies for 2018. The Arlington, Va. based company said Wednesday  it landed the 435th spot in this year’s Inc. 5000 ranking for recording a three-year growth rate of 1,157 percent. Chad Sehlke, founder and CEO of Sehlke Consulting, said receiving the Inc. […] More

  • Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Brings Geospatial Analytics Experience to Agencies Through Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Brings Geospatial Analytics Experience to Agencies Through Partnerships

    Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions and a three-time Wash100 recipient, has said the company partnered with U.S. defense and intelligence companies in the past six months to share its geospatial analytics experience in support of their national security missions. The Maxar Technologies subsidiary collaborated with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency over the Janus Geography program and launch of a new […] More

  • Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System

    The U.S. Army has tested long-range network management features of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. IBCS helped soldiers maintain video, data and voice connectivity through network management, execute and track simulated threats and identify aerial objects as “friend or foe” during the five-week soldier checkout event held with air-and-missile defense […] More

  • Report: Defense Contractors Optimistic on Space Force Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Defense Contractors Optimistic on Space Force Proposal

    Some defense companies have expressed optimism on the Trump administration’s plan to establish a new “space force” as they expect the proposed service branch to boost defense spending on space-related work, The Hill reported Wednesday. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us in the industry to see the intense level of interest that this administration and […] More

  • Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: Tech Usage Policies Could Help Protect Corporate IP From Insider Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: Tech Usage Policies Could Help Protect Corporate IP From Insider Threats

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has said organizations that seek to protect corporate intellectual property from insider threats should “implement a clear set of policies governing technology usage.” Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary posted Tuesday on Fortune that such policies could guide information technology teams as they work to detect malicious access attempts and determine […] More

  • Six Tech Firms Vow to Advance Health Care Interoperability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Six Tech Firms Vow to Advance Health Care Interoperability

    Six companies have issued a joint statement at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference to address barriers to the use of technology platforms that work to facilitate health care interoperability. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Amazon have vowed to work together to “unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Test-Fires Engine for NASA SLS Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Test-Fires Engine for NASA SLS Rocket

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a hot-fire test of an engine technology the company built for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. The company said Tuesday it performed the RS-25 engine test at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and assessed the performance of the main combustion chamber during the 319-second engine fire test attended by NASA Administrator […] More

  • HPE to Build Supercomputer for National Lab Energy R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE to Build Supercomputer for National Lab Energy R&D

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun development work on a high-performance computing system designed to help the National Renewable Energy Laboratory speed up research and development of energy technology platforms across data sciences, vehicle and wind power areas. The Eagle supercomputer is built to process HPC workloads at a speed of up to 8 petaflops through […] More

  • Two CACI Employees Receive DoD Medal for Valor; Ken Asbury Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Two CACI Employees Receive DoD Medal for Valor; Ken Asbury Quoted

    Two CACI International employees have received the Office of the Secretary of the Defense Medal for Valor in recognition of their involvement in counterinsurgency and force member recovery efforts. CACI employees Brandon “Ray” Seabolt and Michael “Tony” Dunne accepted the award from Lt. Gen. Darsie Rogers, deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the […] More

  • ATS CEO Dave Cerne Adds Board Chairman Title; Reginald Hyde, Chuck Hicks Named to Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATS CEO Dave Cerne Adds Board Chairman Title; Reginald Hyde, Chuck Hicks Named to Board

    Acclaim Technical Services has named CEO Dave Cerne as board chairman and appointed Reginald Hyde and Chuck Hicks to the Reston, Va.-based intelligence and language services contractor’s board of directors. Cerne, who is also a board member at ATS, previously served as the company’s chief operating officer and vice president of business development, ATS reported. […] More

  • Deloitte-NASACT Survey: State Financial Leaders’ Digital Satisfaction Drops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte-NASACT Survey: State Financial Leaders’ Digital Satisfaction Drops

    A survey by Deloitte and the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers has found that only 35 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their organizations’ digital response, down from 64 percent in 2015. Deloitte and NASACT said Monday they polled 71 state auditors, treasurers and comptrollers in May and found 45 percent […] More