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  • AWS Sponsors DC Data Visualization Hackathon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Sponsors DC Data Visualization Hackathon

    Amazon Web Services has sponsored a hackathon event in Washington, D.C., that challenged 16 teams to demonstrate the impacts of diplomatic activities using participants’ data visualization skills. AWS announced Thursday it provided technology, credits, expertise and system architects to the 24-hour ImpactHack event jointly hosted by the State Department‘s U.S. Diplomacy Center and the World Resources Institute. The winning […] More

  • Kimberly Ponders: Military Exercise, Tech Investment, Public-Private Partnership Key to Multidomain System Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kimberly Ponders: Military Exercise, Tech Investment, Public-Private Partnership Key to Multidomain System Connectivity

    Kimberly Ponders, head of business development at Lockheed Martin’s C4ISR division, has said technological investments, wargames and private-public initiatives are essential to facilitate connectivity between systems across land, air, space, sea and cyber domains. She told Air Force Technology in an interview published Wednesday defense forces should learn how to operate in both contested and permissive […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Explores Propulsion Tech Options for Navy Guided-Missile Frigate Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed Explores Propulsion Tech Options for Navy Guided-Missile Frigate Program

    Lockheed Martin looks to develop a new propulsion system that is different from the one used in littoral combat ships for the company’s guided-missile frigate offering to the U.S. Navy, Defense News reported Tuesday. The report said Lockheed is examining combined diesel and gas or combined diesel and diesel engine designs in a bid to address the […] More

  • General Dynamics Unveils Bluefin-9 Autonomous UUV Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unveils Bluefin-9 Autonomous UUV Platform

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business has launched a new unmanned underwater vehicle to help defense, academic and commercial users gather subsurface data. Bluefin-9 is designed to be deployed from a pier or a rigid-hulled inflatable boat and features a removable module built to store sonar data, images and video that users can access shortly after they recover the vehicle, General Dynamics […] More

  • FireEye Unveils Free Email Threat Detection Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Unveils Free Email Threat Detection Service

    FireEye has introduced a free cloud-based service meant to help organizations scan and detect potential malicious threats in email systems. The FireProof Email Threat Analysis offering includes a less than five-minute setup process and seeks to identify malware or sophisticated threats that can avoid cybersecurity defenses, the company said Monday. “In the evaluations that we’ve run for organizations, […] More

  • Army Requests Info on Potential Cyber Training System Integrators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Requests Info on Potential Cyber Training System Integrators

    The U.S. Army has issued a sources sought synopsis as part of its research into contractors that can help the service develop and integrate a cloud-based persistent cyber training environment. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the PCTE is intended to help Defense Department cyber staff prepare for exercises and mission practices, as well as evaluate various systems, tactics, […] More

  • Booz Allen Execs Highlight Organizational Characteristics to Grow Cyber Talent Pool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Execs Highlight Organizational Characteristics to Grow Cyber Talent Pool

    Three Booz Allen Hamilton executives said they have observed five qualities that help organizations attract and retain professionals who possess cybersecurity skills. Booz Allen’s Abby Cashman, Erin Weiss Kaya and Joseph Thompson wrote in a joint opinion piece published Saturday on Fifth Domain that companies and agencies should not depend on a competitive salary package alone to bring in […] More

  • AWS Cloud Tech Supports NASA's Machine Learning-Based Hurricane Monitoring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Cloud Tech Supports NASA’s Machine Learning-Based Hurricane Monitoring

    NASA uses an Amazon Web Services tool with a machine learning infrastructure designed to help agency personnel monitor and calculate the wind speed of hurricanes. The Deep Learning-Based Hurricane Intensity Estimator works to generate and display wind flow velocity at 15-minute intervals with the use of near real-time images from GOES-16 satellite’s web mapping server, according to an AWS […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Info on 'Intelligent' Computing Tech Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Info on ‘Intelligent’ Computing Tech Research Efforts

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on research efforts that involve hardware and software architectures with intelligent computing functions. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it seeks to determine the possibility of developing within the next 20 years a computer system that can reason and learn from experience, […] More

  • Synopsys to Develop System-On-Chip Emulation Tech Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Synopsys to Develop System-On-Chip Emulation Tech Under DARPA Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Synopsys to develop a technology to emulate system-on-chips as part of DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative. Synopsys said Wednesday it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin and Analog Devices on the Posh Open Source Hardware program that aims to improve the quality of mixed-signal SoC platforms intended for defense and aerospace use. DARPA seeks to establish a […] More

  • Dave Maxwell Promoted to Dewberry Operating Unit Manager for Southeast Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Maxwell Promoted to Dewberry Operating Unit Manager for Southeast Region

    Dave Maxwell, formerly senior vice president of Dewberry’s southern Virginia and North Carolina offices, has been promoted to operating unit manager of the company’s more than 20 offices in southeast U.S. He will supervise more than 500 employees across Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and central and southern Virginia, as well as oversee growth and operational strategies in […] More

  • Deltek Completes Integration of Onvia, GovWin Market Intell Platforms; Michael Corkery Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Completes Integration of Onvia, GovWin Market Intell Platforms; Michael Corkery Quoted

    Deltek has completed the integration of its GovWin IQ platform with Onvia’s market intelligence offering in a move to provide government contractors information on business opportunities. GonWin+Onvia is designed to help clients discover contracting leads across the federal, state, local and education sectors, Deltek said Tuesday. The Herndon, Va.-based company unveiled the single platform nearly a year after it […] More