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  • Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments

    A team of Iron Mountain and Chenega Corp.‘s applied solutions subsidiary has received a five-year contract for offsite records management storage and services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Both companies will help BOP manage, transport, digitize, shred and provide special project services for records containing personal, medical and parole information on inmates, Iron Mountain said Thursday. The contract […] More

  • Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium

    Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms and discuss how they use new tools to build technology platforms designed to address space challenges. Dario Zamarian, group president of Maxar’s SSL business, discussed how the business […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has received the 39th Howard Hughes Memorial Award from the Aero Club of Southern California in recognition of her accomplishments as an aerospace industry executive. Lockheed said Thursday the Howard Hughes Memorial Award was established in 1978 and is presented annually to an aerospace leader who has “significantly” contributed to […] More

  • Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role

    James Mackie, former director of the Treasury Department‘s Office of Tax Analysis, has joined Ernst and Young as co-director of the company’s quantitative economics and statistics group. The more than 30-year Treasury veteran will lead the Washington, D.C.-based QUEST group with  Robert Carroll, said Thursday. In his previous role, Mackie led OTA’s efforts to analyze and produce reports on […] More

  • LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board

    David Zolet, CEO of management consulting firm LMI, has been appointed to the First Responder Network Authority’s board of directors. Zolet will serve a three-year term on the board that oversees FirstNet’s work with AT&T to build and run a national broadband network for first responders, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross […] More

  • Accenture Gets VA Loan Oversight System Upgrade Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Gets VA Loan Oversight System Upgrade Order

    Accenture has won a potential 57-month, $29 million task order to modernize a system the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to manage VA-guaranteed loans for former military personnel. The company said Thursday its federal services business will update current VA Office of Information and Technology systems to include new web-interface and integration tools designed to automatically load events and updates […] More

  • NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program

    The National Science Foundation has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google to support research projects in the data science and engineering field. NSF said Wednesday it will obligate nearly $30 million to the Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering program. AWS, Google and Microsoft have each pledged to donate […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funding for Tourniquet Master Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funding for Tourniquet Master Training System

    The U.S. Army has provided an additional funding of $1 million through a two-and-a-half-year contract for Charles River Analytics‘ effort to develop a training system on tourniquet technology usage. The company said Tuesday it is working in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Boston Engineering and Compression Works to construct the Tourniquet Master Training system. The TMT system is being […] More

  • BAE Reports UK Air Force's Missile Firing Tests With Typhoon Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Reports UK Air Force’s Missile Firing Tests With Typhoon Aircraft

    BAE Systems has reported that a U.K. air force squadron fired air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles from a Eurofighter Typhoon during recent trials aimed to showcase the aircraft’s weapon upgrades. The Royal Air Force’s Test and Evaluation Squadron was the first unit to fire-test the  Storm Shadow and Meteor weapons in trials as part of Project Centurion, BAE said Tuesday. RAF aims to […] More

  • Cobham Demos Inmarsat Satcom Connectivity Platform for Tactical UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Demos Inmarsat Satcom Connectivity Platform for Tactical UAVs

    Cobham has showcased a communications terminal designed to offer internet connectivity for tactical unmanned aerial vehicles or smaller airframes via an Inmarsat satellite network. The company said Tuesday its satcom business demonstrated the AVIATOR UAV 200 system at the ongoing the Singapore Air Show. AVIATOR UAV features a compact lightweight design and offers access to the internet protocol-based Inmarsat Class 4 SwiftBroadband […] More

  • Patrick Shanahan: DoD Could Introduce New Cyber Hygiene Standards for Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patrick Shanahan: DoD Could Introduce New Cyber Hygiene Standards for Companies

    Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has said the Defense Department could initiate new measures that may require companies and their suppliers to carry out cyber hygiene practices to better protect the agency’s critical data assets from threat actors, National Defense reported Tuesday. “We want the bar to be set so high, it will become the […] More

  • GE to Build Performance Mgmt Tool for Navy Dry Cargo Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE to Build Performance Mgmt Tool for Navy Dry Cargo Ships

    General Electric has received a contract extension from the U.S. Navy‘s Military Sealift Command to provide an asset performance management tool for the USNS William McLean and USNS Medgar Evers vessels. The company said Monday it will deliver a Predix-based technology to help the Navy assess the health of its dry cargo ammunition ships and mitigate potential asset […] More