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  • Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Army Security Assistance Training Support Under Potential $250M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Army Security Assistance Training Support Under Potential $250M Contract

    American Systems plans to offer a range of aviation training services to the U.S. Army‘s Security Assistance Training Management Organization under a potential five-year, $250 million contract awarded in May. The company said Monday it seeks to provide basic and highly technical flight, operational planning and maintenance technical advice and assistance support for SATMO’s aviation security assistance […] More

  • Former NGA Director Letitia Long Joins Sonatype Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NGA Director Letitia Long Joins Sonatype Board

    Letitia Long, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been named an independent director of Sonatype‘s board of directors. Sonatype said Tuesday Long will work with board representatives from the company’s lead investors that include Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She held various civilian leadership positions during her more than 35-year […] More

  • Northrop-Sponsored Competitions Demo Robotic Air, Ground & Sea Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Sponsored Competitions Demo Robotic Air, Ground & Sea Systems

    Northrop Grumman has sponsored a series of competitions that showcased multiple robotic air, ground, boat and submarine platforms developed by student teams worldwide. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation administered the RoboNation competitions across the U.S. to offer participants an opportunity to demonstrate unmanned and autonomous systems that have been programmed to complete obstacle courses, […] More

  • Knight Point Systems Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Knight Point Systems Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List

    Knight Point Systems has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 U.S. fastest-growing companies for the seventh consecutive year. The Reston, Virginia-based company ranked 3955th on the magazine’s 2017 list. “Companies that made the list, on average, have grown sixfold since 2013,” said Eric Schurenberg, Inc. Media president and editor-in-chief. Knight Point is a service-disabled […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Australia Sign Agreement for Commercial Satellite Imagery Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Australia Sign Agreement for Commercial Satellite Imagery Access

    DigitalGlobe has entered into a multiyear agreement with Australia’s defense department to provide the Australian government access to the company’s commercial satellite imaging constellation. The department can task and download imagery from five DigitalGlobe satellites that include WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 to a ground station under the Direct Access Program contract, the company said Tuesday. DigitalGlobe expects to generate $83 […] More

  • Vibrent Health SaaS Precision Medicine Platform Gets NIH Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vibrent Health SaaS Precision Medicine Platform Gets NIH Security Certification

    Vibrent Health has obtained authorization from the National Institutes of Health to offer its software-as-a-service precision medicine platform to government and commercial customers. The authority to operate confirms that Vibrent’s Learning Health System meets government data security and privacy requirements, the company said Tuesday. The SaaS platform supports NIH’s AllofUs Research Program, a precision medicine initiative that studies how genomics, lifestyle, […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets

    The U.S. Army is seeking information on current good manufacturing processes for a cryopreserved platelets product to aid the Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s endeavors to treat severe hemorrhage caused by combat trauma. USAMMDA seeks to develop medical products through collaborations with commercial partners in efforts to protect military combatants as part of the U.S. Combat Casualty […] More

  • Metronome-MobileIron Team Secures DHS SBIR Grant to Develop Mobile Security Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metronome-MobileIron Team Secures DHS SBIR Grant to Develop Mobile Security Tech

    A MobileIron–Metronome Software team has received a $749,930 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate to develop technology for first responders to secure mobile device-based sensor systems. Both companies will work to create a security overlay designed to comply with security and data provenance requirements under the Next Generation First Responder framework, MobileIron said […] More

  • Public Safety Group to Integrate IBM Cognitive Computing Tech With Emergency Call Guidance Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Public Safety Group to Integrate IBM Cognitive Computing Tech With Emergency Call Guidance Software

    The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International plans to integrate its scripted 9-1-1 guidance software with IBM‘s Watson-based cognitive computing platforms as part of efforts to optimize emergency call taking. IBM said Monday it will incorporate the Watson Speech-to-Text and Watson Analytics tools into the IntelliComm criteria-based guide card software APCO International intends to field at five public safety answering […] More

  • Singapore Installs Elbit Systems-Made Defensive Suite on Apache, Chinook Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Singapore Installs Elbit Systems-Made Defensive Suite on Apache, Chinook Helicopters

    Singapore’s air force has installed Elbit Systems-made defense electronics suite on its fleet of Boeing-built AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters as part of an effort to boost aircraft survivability and mission capacity, Defense News reported. A spokesperson from the Singaporean defense ministry said the upgrade effort covers electronic warfare and satellite communications systems. Sources told Defense […] More

  • RS&H to Help Renovate Mobile Launcher at NASA Kennedy Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RS&H to Help Renovate Mobile Launcher at NASA Kennedy Space Center

    Reynolds, Smith & Hills has received a potential five-year, $30 million contract from NASA to provide architectural engineering and design services for a mobile launcher modification effort at the Florida-based Kennedy Space Center. NASA said Saturday RS&H will develop and modify electrical, mechanical and structural systems to help renovate KSC’s mobile launcher platform under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Leonardo DRS to Help Navy Install Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Power System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS to Help Navy Install Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Power System

    Leonardo DRS has received a $32.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver provisioned item orders, engineering services and associated support for the low-voltage power system of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. The Defense Department said Monday Leonardo DRS’ systems business will perform work under the modification through September 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DDG 1000‘s low-voltage power system includes power […] More