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  • Carahsoft Adds Qmulos' Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Qmulos’ Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. Qmulos said Tuesday its Q-Audit and Q-Compliance apps are designed to give users real-time visibility into management, operational and technical controls for information technology risk management, security and compliance monitoring programs. Carahsoft will help Qmulos market the Splunk-powered […] More

  • Army Wants Info on IT Platform Sources for Cargo, Parachute Inventory Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Wants Info on IT Platform Sources for Cargo, Parachute Inventory Mgmt System

    The U.S. Army wants feedback from potential industry sources of a technology platform that could help the Army monitor its fleet of cargo and personnel parachute inventory. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday stated that respondents should have commercial-off-the-shelf software or can provide modified-off-the-shelf software that can support 150 locations worldwide, 500 to 750 active users and 100 to 200 users that can pull […] More

  • Avaya to Help Run Dubai Transport Agency's Contact Center Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya to Help Run Dubai Transport Agency’s Contact Center Operations

    Avaya has received a three-year contract of an undisclosed value from Dubai’s roads and transport authority to provide managed services to the agency’s contact center. RTA — which crafts transport, road and traffic management requirements across Dubai — has implemented Avaya’s customer engagement and support systems to create the 8009090 Contact Center project, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Capgemini's US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini’s US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ

    Capgemini‘s U.S. government subsidiary will relocate its Washington, D.C. and Reston, Virginia operations to a consolidated headquarters site in Tysons Corner, Virginia under a lease transaction. Commercial real estate advisory firm Serten Advisors said Tuesday that Capgemini Government Solutions will occupy 15,301 square feet of office space at the new 1765 Greensboro Station Place location that is adjacent to the Metrorail Silver Line’s […] More

  • Ping4 to Develop Flood Alerting Mobile Platform for First Responders Under DHS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ping4 to Develop Flood Alerting Mobile Platform for First Responders Under DHS Contract

    Ping4 has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a mobile communications platform that will work to alert first responders on flood conditions. Smartphone application developer Ping4 said Tuesday the platform will be designed to use location-based features of smart mobile devices to provide area-specific alerts such as flood […] More

  • Dell's Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell’s Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps

    Cameron Chehreh, federal chief technology officer at Dell, has said chief information officers at agencies should adopt incremental modernization strategies to update legacy applications. Chehreh told MeriTalk writer Mary Tobin in an interview posted Monday that legacy applications represent many of the challenges federal CIOs will face as agencies work to comply with the Office of Management and Budget‘s Data Center Optimization Initiative. […] More

  • Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria

    Australia-based Immuron has entered a research and development collaboration agreement with the Naval Medical Research Center to test the bio-pharmaceutical company’s drug against gastrointestinal problems. The company said Aug. 30 it will test the Travelan dietary supplement against Campylobacter and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli gram-negative bacteria to help develop therapeutics in an effort to protect military and civilian populations from diarrhea. Immuron and NMRC researchers […] More

  • Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $19.4 million contract to continue to help NASA operate a satellite the company designed to observe the sun and support related scientific studies. Lockheed said Monday the contract extends the company’s support for the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph observatory through September 2018, with an option for further extension of the performance period until September 2019. “IRIS has taken more […] More

  • Novetta to Develop System-of-Systems Architecture for DoD Insider Threat Mgmt & Analysis Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Novetta to Develop System-of-Systems Architecture for DoD Insider Threat Mgmt & Analysis Center

    Novetta has received potential four-year, $10 million contract to help develop and sustain a system-of-systems architecture at he Defense Security Service‘s Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center. The Defense Department said Monday the SoS architecture will be built to help DITMAC reach full operating capability. Work will occur at the DSS DITMAC office in Arlington, Virginia through Sept. 25, 2020. DSS’ […] More

  • Battelle, Navy Partner to Develop Medical Wrap to Preserve Tissue in Injured Limbs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Navy Partner to Develop Medical Wrap to Preserve Tissue in Injured Limbs

    Battelle has partnered with the Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory and Naval Medical Research Center to design a medical wrap that will work to cover injured limbs and preserve tissue for up to three days. The U.S. Navy said Thursday the Acute Care Cover for the Severely Injured Limb medical wrap will consist of an outer cover […] More

  • GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the agency’s weather forecasts and warnings. […] More

  • Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept

    Chemring‘s sensors and electronic systems business will collaborate with Minelab Electronics to develop a handheld detector of buried improvised explosive devices as part of a $5 million contract that MineLab received from Australia’s defense department. The handheld detector prototype will feature Chemring’s ground-penetrating radar and Minelab’s multi-frequency continuous wave metal detection technology, Chemring said Tuesday. Chemring […] More