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  • World Wide Technology Wins DISA Firewall, Incidental Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    World Wide Technology Wins DISA Firewall, Incidental Services Contract

    World Wide Technology has won a potential five-year, $9.3 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide commercial firewall hardware and incidental services to naval shipyards. DISA received seven proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via the Federal Business Opportunities website, the Defense Department said Thursday. The agency obligated $284,285 from its fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance […] More

  • SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Prior to Static Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Prior to Static Fire Test

    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida prior to the rocket’s static fire test, Space News reported Thursday. Brian Berger and Jeff Foust write the explosion early Thursday destroyed the rocket’s communications satellite payload Amos-6, built as part of Facebook’s plan to beam Internet access to remote areas in […] More

  • Siemens, Omnetric Group Test Renewable Software Platform at Duke Energy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Omnetric Group Test Renewable Software Platform at Duke Energy

    Siemens and Omnetric Group have collaborated to install and test a renewable software technology at utility company Duke Energy as part of a project managed by the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Omentric assessed the technical feasibility of the Open Field Message Bus architecture in conjunction with Siemens’ Microgrid Management Software designed for weather and load behavior forecasting, Siemens said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Concludes USS John Warner Post-Shakedown Availability Work; Jim Hughes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Concludes USS John Warner Post-Shakedown Availability Work; Jim Hughes Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has concluded its post-shakedown availability effort for the submarine USS John Warner. The work marks the shipyard’s first PSA effort for a Virginia-class submarine and the company has returned the submarine to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday, Huntington Ingalls said Wednesday. “I could not be more proud of the sailors […] More

  • BAE's US Arm to Unveil 'Beowulf' Utility Vehicle at National Guard Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm to Unveil ‘Beowulf’ Utility Vehicle at National Guard Symposium

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has scheduled the debut of its new all-terrain utility vehicle on Sept. 10 at the National Guard Association of the United States symposium in Baltimore, Maryland. Beowulf is an unarmored version of BAE Systems’ BvS10 combat vehicle built to replace the BV206 small unit support vehicle, BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday. The U.S. […] More

  • Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments

    A new Accenture study has identified five emerging technology trends driven by a “people-first approach” the company believes can help move forward the federal government’s digital initiatives. The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 study sought input from the Technology Vision External Advisory Board that consists of individuals from the public and private sectors and academia, Accenture said Wednesday. Accenture cited intelligent automation, liquid workforce, platform-based […] More

  • DOE Awards Geothermal Energy Research Funds to Sandia Labs, University of Utah - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Awards Geothermal Energy Research Funds to Sandia Labs, University of Utah

    The Energy Department has allocated $29 million in total funds for two separate geothermal systems research efforts led by the University of Utah and the Sandia National Laboratories. Eeach team will receive funds to instrument, define and permit candidate sites for an underground laboratory as part of DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy program, the department said Wednesday. […] More

  • QinetiQ Gets $2.7M in DARPA Funds for Electric Hub-Drive Tech; David Moore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ Gets $2.7M in DARPA Funds for Electric Hub-Drive Tech; David Moore Comments

    QinetiQ has received $2.7 million in funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue work on the company’s electric hub-drive technology. The technology will form part of an electric propulsion system to replace gearboxes, differentials and drive shafts with electric motors contained within the wheels, QinetiQ said Tuesday. QinetiQ was among the eight organizations DARPA […] More

  • ECS to Help Army Develop Simulation, Training Tech; Waymon Armstrong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS to Help Army Develop Simulation, Training Tech; Waymon Armstrong Comments

    Engineering and Computer Simulations has received two contracts from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to research, build and demonstrate simulation and training technologies. The Simulation, Training and Engineering Services initiative aims to create training and simulation systems intended to adapt to varying Army requirements over time, ECS said Friday. ECS will produce simulation platforms for medical […] More

  • JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    JDog Launches New Branch of Government Jobs Franchise; Jerry Flanagan Comments

    JDog Junk Removal & Hauling has launched a new branch of its franchise JDog Services to perform government-contracted jobs after the company received a Veteran-Owned Small Business designation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. JDog Services will provide waste management services for the government in various territories across the country, JDog said Tuesday. “Receiving government-contracted […] More

  • Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hawaii Biotech Receives NIAID Grant for Chikungunya Virus Vaccine Development

    Hawaii Biotech Inc. has been selected to develop a vaccine against chikungunya virus under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Institutes of Health‘s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The biotechnology company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Baylor College of Medicine on the project. David Clements, director of […] More