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  • ReportLinker: Global Anti-Drone Market to Reach $1.14B by 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportLinker: Global Anti-Drone Market to Reach $1.14B by 2022

    MarketsandMarkets‘ new report on the global counter-drone systems market states that the anti-drone industry is projected to reach $1.14 billion by 2022 and achieve a 23.89 percent compound annual growth rate from 2017 to 2022. ReportLinker said Monday counter-drone systems, particularly electronics systems, will play an increasingly significant role in the coming years to fight illegal drone activity. Incidences of security breach, […] More

  • DARPA to Seek Industry Participants for Neuroplasticity Learning Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Seek Industry Participants for Neuroplasticity Learning Research Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to enlist scientific professionals to help explore how peripheral nerves of the human body may facilitate cognitive learning. DARPA said Wednesday its Targeted Neuroplasticity Training project aims to develop a technology platform that can help accelerate extensive trainings across the Defense Department. “Recent research has shown that stimulation of certain peripheral nerves, easily and […] More

  • Iron Mountain to Buy Power from NJR Wind Farm; Mark Kidd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain to Buy Power from NJR Wind Farm; Mark Kidd Comments

    Iron Mountain has agreed to procure energy from a new wind farm in Ringer Hill, Pennsylvania, to help address current electricity requirements of the information technology firm’s facilities in the mid-Atlantic region. Iron Mountain said Tuesday it aims to save up to $500,000 annually through a 15-year wind power purchase agreement the company signed with New Jersey […] More

  • Nuance Output Manager Receives Army Networthiness Certification; Mike Rich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nuance Output Manager Receives Army Networthiness Certification; Mike Rich Comments

    Nuance Communications has received the U.S. Army’s Certificate of Networthiness for its Output Manager software that works to address the security, compatibility and sustainability requirements to support the service branch’s document workflow. Mike Rich, Nuance executive vice president and general manager, said in a statement released Tuesday the company’s Document Imaging portfolio added 15 military customers that use AutoStore and […] More

  • Jacobs Joins US Space Advocacy Trade Group; Ward Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Joins US Space Advocacy Trade Group; Ward Johnson Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has become a member of an organization that represents U.S.-based industry and nonprofit groups to advocate for government investment in space exploration, the company said Tuesday. The Seabrook, Texas-based Coalition for Space Exploration counts close to 30 aerospace industry companies as members and aims to raise awareness and build support for U.S. space exploration programs. “We share the commitment […] More

  • Trifacta Forges Data Wrangling Resale Pact With Carahsoft in Federal Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trifacta Forges Data Wrangling Resale Pact With Carahsoft in Federal Market Push

    San Francisco, Calif.-based data wrangling software company Trifacta has formed a partnership with government technology reseller Carahsoft in a push to accelerate access public sector agencies have to the former company’s products. Carahsoft will offer Trifacta’s software to federal agencies that seek to carry out new analytics initiatives and build up scale of analysis, Trifacta said Tuesday. Trifacta served as a […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Increased 2015 R&D Spending to $839M to Meet National Security Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Increased 2015 R&D Spending to $839M to Meet National Security Demand

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company increased its investments in research and development efforts to $839 million in 2015 in an effort to meet its international clients’ current and future defense and national security requirements. She noted in her speech at Lockheed’s 2016 Media Day in Virginia Tuesday that such investments went to the development […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue Begin Power Plant Construction in Germany; Mo Vargas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue Begin Power Plant Construction in Germany; Mo Vargas Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received a $43 million contract from Concord Blue to start the construction of a power generation facility in Herten, Germany, in an effort to supply renewable energy to residents and businesses in the area. The 5-megawatt plant will work to convert forestry waste to power through the advanced gasification process using Concord Blue’s Reformer technology, Lockheed said […] More

  • Lockheed Wraps Up Energy Business Integration; Frank Armijo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Wraps Up Energy Business Integration; Frank Armijo Comments

    Lockheed Martin has formed a new business unit after it completed the combination of energy platforms and related offerings that were previously aligned in various business areas. Lockheed Martin Energy will offer platforms across the areas of energy management, nuclear systems, energy storage, bio-energy and ocean technologies, the company said Tuesday. Frank Armijo, who has […] More

  • General Atomics Test Fires Railgun Projectile Guidance Electronics Unit; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Test Fires Railgun Projectile Guidance Electronics Unit; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics has completed an open range testing exercise on a company-built railgun projectile guidance electronics unit. The hypersonic projectiles for the guidance electronics unit worked to transmit component performance data to a ground station via a telemetry link during the tests conducted at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, General Atomics said Sunday. […] More

  • NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 4 Proposals for Deep Space Solar Array Tech Development Program

    NASA has chosen four proposals to enter contract negotiations as part of a program to develop solar array technologies to operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments for future deep space missions. The space agency said Tuesday initial contract awards have a value of $400,000 each and cover a nine-month period of design, testing and analysis work for the Game Changing Development program. […] More

  • DARPA Calls for Improvised Threat R&D Proposals; John Main Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Calls for Improvised Threat R&D Proposals; John Main Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for research proposals for the Improv program that aims to build prototypes designed to pose security threats to potential adversaries through commercially available products. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated that DARPA will select the proposals that will enter the feasibility study phase following the submission […] More