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  • In-Q-Tel, Kailos Genetics Partner to Further Develop Sequencing Tech for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Kailos Genetics Partner to Further Develop Sequencing Tech for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Kailos Genetics to help the biotechnology company further develop sequencing technologies that will have potential use in the intelligence community. Kailos said Tuesday it aims to continue development work on a next-generation sequencing laboratory and software platforms through the strategic partnership. Tom Gillespie, an investment partner at In-Q-Tel, said that […] More

  • Elbit Systems Links Air Training Simulators via Cloud-Based Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Links Air Training Simulators via Cloud-Based Environment

    Elbit Systems has tested a cloud-based service that worked to connect two air training simulators through a common simulation environment. The company said Wednesday the synthetic training platform builds on the results of a customer-funded research and development project, where Elbit linked two different types of trainers by providing cloud-based simulation. The new service currently supports real time interaction […] More

  • Microsoft Expands Azure Govt Cloud Availability in 2 Data Center Regions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Expands Azure Govt Cloud Availability in 2 Data Center Regions

    Microsoft has made its Azure Government cloud platform available in two additional data center regions in Arizona and Texas for U.S. government customers and their partners. Tom Keane wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that Microsoft aims to provide Azure Government capacity near customers on the East Coast, West Coast and central U.S. through the expansion […] More

  • Canon Subsidiary Obtains DoD Cybersecurity Certification for Mobile Digital X-Ray System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canon Subsidiary Obtains DoD Cybersecurity Certification for Mobile Digital X-Ray System

    A portable digital radiography system developed by Canon USA‘s Virtual Imaging subsidiary has obtained cybersecurity certification under the Defense Department‘s Risk Management Framework program. Canon said Tuesday the certification validates that RadPRO SOLTUS 100M system meets security standards under the RMF program, which seeks to boost information security and promote risk management initiatives across the […] More

  • Taqtile, Booz Allen Forge Mixed Reality Tech Deployment Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Taqtile, Booz Allen Forge Mixed Reality Tech Deployment Partnership

    Seattle-based enterprise software provider Taqtile has teamed up with Booz Allen Hamilton to facilitate the delivery of its mixed-reality platform to the Defense Department. Taqtile’s Manifest works to help users carry out complex tasks, provide them visibility into an organization’s assets, collaboration efforts and field operations as well as record, demonstrate and communicate processes with other field […] More

  • Galois to Help Navy Develop Software Defense Methods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois to Help Navy Develop Software Defense Methods

    Galois has received a $2.7 million contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop methods for the U.S. Navy to increase the resiliency of the service branch’s real-time and embedded military software systems. The company said Monday it seeks to utilize binary rewriting and software brittleness techniques to help the Navy reinforce control systems for cyber […] More

  • Wyoming OKs State Plan for FirstNet’s Public Safety Broadband Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wyoming OKs State Plan for FirstNet’s Public Safety Broadband Network

    The state of Wyoming has approved a plan from AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority to provide a wireless broadband network for the state’s first responders and other public safety personnel. Gov. Matthew Mead announced his decision to opt into the state plan Tuesday, FirstNet said Tuesday. “The state of Wyoming has participated in FirstNet consultation […] More

  • Clearwater Compliance Joins NIST-Led Cybersecurity Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Clearwater Compliance Joins NIST-Led Cybersecurity Partnership

    Clearwater Compliance has become a member of a public-private cybersecurity collaboration within the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. The Nashville, Tennessee-based cybersecurity and compliance management provider said Tuesday it will pledge its cyber risk management software, methodology and expertise as a member of NIST’s National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership. “It takes […] More

  • Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program

    Orbital ATK has demonstrated its air-launched intermediate-range ballistic missile target in support of the test flight program for the Missile Defense Agency’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The Orbital ATK-built IRBM target simulated a ballistic missile threat after being launched from a C-17 aircraft and transported by parachutes prior to ignition, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed-Built THAAD Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target During MDA Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built THAAD Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target During MDA Test

    A Lockheed Martin-built missile defense system has demonstrated a capacity to detect, track and intercept a threat representative intermediate-range ballistic missile target during a flight test led by the Missile Defense Agency. Lockheed said Tuesday the test marked the first IRBM interception for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system currently installed at Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska. Richard McDaniel, vice […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $41.8 million modification to provide lifetime support for the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The modification exercises a foreign military sales option under a potential $421 million contract awarded to the company last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • KBR Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract for Navy ATC Equipment Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract for Navy ATC Equipment Support

    A KBR subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $27.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering products, hardware and technical services to the air traffic control and landing systems branch within the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. KBRwyle Technology Solutions will configure, evaluate, install, integrate, maintain, manage and test equipment that support […] More