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  • 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

  • HackerOne, DoD Launch New Bug Bounty Challenge to Secure USMC Enterprise Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HackerOne, DoD Launch New Bug Bounty Challenge to Secure USMC Enterprise Network

    HackerOne and the Defense Department have unveiled a new bug bounty challenge that aims to build up the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. Marine Corps’ enterprise network. Nearly 100 expert security professionals and Marine Corps Cyberspace Command personnel hacked the service’s public-facing sites and identified 75 cyber vulnerabilities through the Hack the Marine Corps program […] More

  • Microsoft Launches Hybrid Cloud Offering for Azure Government - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Launches Hybrid Cloud Offering for Azure Government

    Microsoft has made its Azure Stack hybrid cloud offering available to Azure Government cloud platform users. Natalia Mackevicius, program director for Azure Stack, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday the Azure Stack for Azure Government offering seeks to help government clients comply with data requirements by providing them access to the same set of DevOps tools, […] More

  • Inmarsat Government's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Gov’t, Satcom Industry Need ‘Enterprise Approach to Partnerships’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Gov’t, Satcom Industry Need ‘Enterprise Approach to Partnerships’

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the government and the commercial satellite industry should adopt an “enterprise approach to partnerships” to protect and defend space assets from potential adversaries. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a National Defense piece posted Friday that an example of that approach is the formation of […] More

  • ULA’s Delta V Heavy Rocket Launches NASA Solar Probe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta V Heavy Rocket Launches NASA Solar Probe

    A solar probe that Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and produced for NASA took off Sunday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will deploy its magnetometer boom and high-gain antenna in the mission’s first week and kick off in September […] More

  • Rita Flaherty: Lockheed Builds F-35, Apache Aircraft Sensors in Orlando, Fla. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rita Flaherty: Lockheed Builds F-35, Apache Aircraft Sensors in Orlando, Fla.

    Rita Flaherty, vice president of business development at Lockheed Martin, has said the company’s missiles and fire control business has designed and developed at least 11,000 sensor platforms through its Orlando, Fla.-based facility in support of military intelligence and surveillance missions, Orlando Business Journal reported Thursday. Those platforms include the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night […] More

  • VMware to Acquire Dell EMC’s Service Assurance Tech Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware to Acquire Dell EMC’s Service Assurance Tech Suite

    Dell Technologies‘ VMware subsidiary has agreed to buy a Dell EMC software suite designed to provide communication service providers with root cause analysis management and assurance tools as they launch services on existing and 5G networks. VMware said Thursday it will integrate the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite offering into its network functions virtualization portfolio for the telecommunications sector, […] More

  • SSL to Build Flight System Component for NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission; Richard White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL to Build Flight System Component for NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission; Richard White Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has been tapped by Zin Technologies to develop and test a flight system designed for NASA’s Psyche mission that aims to explore a metal asteroid and help shed light on the Earth’s formation. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the Psyche Compute Element that will work as the main computer onboard […] More

  • Election Tech Vendors, Cyber Org Team Up to Protect Voting Systems; BAE’s Peder Jungck Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Election Tech Vendors, Cyber Org Team Up to Protect Voting Systems; BAE’s Peder Jungck Comments

    A new group of elections systems providers and an information technology-centric cybersecurity data sharing organization have agreed to partner to safeguard voting platforms from possible election interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Elections Industry Special Industry Group will provide election technology firms access to the IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s data sharing infrastructure […] More