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  • 2 NASA-Backed Research Institutes Aim to Develop Space Tech Platforms for Long-Duration Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2 NASA-Backed Research Institutes Aim to Develop Space Tech Platforms for Long-Duration Missions

    NASA has picked two proposals to establish research institutes that will work on space technology platforms designed to extend human presence in long-duration exploration missions. The agency will award each Space Technology Research Institute up to $15 million in funds over five years to develop technology platforms in the areas of space infrastructure and biomanufacturing in […] More

  • Capstone to Extend Mgmt Support for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone to Extend Mgmt Support for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Program

    Capstone has secured a task order to provide continued program management support for the enterprise network of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it will help the Commander, Navy Installations Command to manage the Navy Marine Corps Intranet program under the task order awarded via the Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle. […] More

  • Harris to Provide Voice Comms System for Turkey's Air Traffic Mgmt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Provide Voice Comms System for Turkey’s Air Traffic Mgmt Program

    Harris has been selected to provide a voice over internet protocol communication system in support of an air traffic management program in Turkey. The company said Thursday it will provide the cloud-based Voice Communication System for the 21st Century platform for Turkey’s air navigation service provider known as Devlet Hava Meydanlari Isletmesi. Harris will install VCS21 system at seven facilities in the country. VCS21 works […] More

  • CSC to Open South Australia-Based Office After Computing Tech, Service Contract Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Open South Australia-Based Office After Computing Tech, Service Contract Win

    Computer Sciences Corp. has announced plans to set up a new office in Adelaide, South Australia, after it received a seven-year contract to provide desktop computers, tablets, laptops and other digital devices as well as end-user computing services to government agencies in the state. CSC will make a $5 million investment to establish the new office in […] More

  • Former Intell Community CIO Al Tarasiuk Joins Digital Reasoning Board; Tim Estes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Intell Community CIO Al Tarasiuk Joins Digital Reasoning Board; Tim Estes Comments

    Al Tarasiuk, chief security officer at Deutsche Bank and a more than 26-year federal service veteran, has joined the board of directors of Nashville, Tennessee-based cognitive computing software developer Digital Reasoning. Digital Reasoning said Thursday that Tarasiuk previously served as the intelligence community chief information officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and CIO of the […] More

  • CACI's Klaus Schafer to Present at Healthcare IT Conference in Florida - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI’s Klaus Schafer to Present at Healthcare IT Conference in Florida

    Klaus Schafer, chief medical officer at CACI International, will present at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s conference in Orlando, Florida on Feb. 20 and 21. CACI said Friday Schafer will discuss the need for healthcare system modernization programs to support the collection of data and electronic health information; facilitate  interoperability; increase data security and integrity; and transform care […] More

  • KeyStone Solutions Chair Jim McCarthy to Host Upcoming Weekly GovCon Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyStone Solutions Chair Jim McCarthy to Host Upcoming Weekly GovCon Show

    Jim McCarthy, chairman and chief strategy officer of KeyStone Solutions, will host and moderate an upcoming weekly television and internet program that will discuss issues relevant to government contracting in effort to “bridge the gap” between the public and private sectors. McCarthy said in a statement issued Wednesday that The Bridge will serve to continue the […] More

  • Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and Logos Technologies have conducted an initial flight test of a small tactical unmanned aircraft system equipped with a wide-area motion imagery technology Logos said Wednesday its Redkite sensor was tested aboard an Integrator UAS in Boardman, Oregon, and the demonstration marked the first WAMI integration into a drone’s internal payload bay. Redkite is designed to help operators detect, track and record movement […] More

  • NGA Taps 4 Firms to Develop AI, Automation Platforms for GEOINT Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Taps 4 Firms to Develop AI, Automation Platforms for GEOINT Analysis

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded nearly $2 million in research contracts to four companies that seek to facilitate GEOINT analysis through the development of automation and artificial intelligence technology platforms. NGA said Wednesday it awarded the contracts to Raytheon, Concurrent Technologies Corp., HRL Laboratories and Soar Technology in January under the AI and automation topic of a […] More

  • Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets

    The U.K.’s air force and Northrop Grumman have collaborated to test communications interoperability between the Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and Lockheed Martin-built F-35B. Northrop said Wednesday it provided an airborne gateway for the two-week Babel Fish III trial that was held in Mojave Desert, California. F-35 jets communicate through the Multifunction Advanced Data Link while the Typhoon aircraft uses Link 16 to share data, Northrop […] More

  • FLIR Lands $50M IDIQ to Produce Marine Electronic Systems for Coast Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Lands $50M IDIQ to Produce Marine Electronic Systems for Coast Guard

    FLIR Systems has secured a potential $50 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to supply marine electronic systems to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Command, Control and Communications Engineering Center. The company said Wednesday the Scalable Integrated Navigation Systems 2 contract covers the delivery of electronic systems such as Raymarine multifunction navigation displays, autopilots, radars, remote instrument displays and sonars […] More

  • Thales Partners With 4 Cloud Service Providers to Support Customer Encryption Key Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Partners With 4 Cloud Service Providers to Support Customer Encryption Key Mgmt

    Thales has integrated its data security technology with cloud technology platforms from Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce as part of efforts to help customers manage their encryption keys. Microsoft collaborated with Thales to provide key management services for Azure and Office 365, which will support users’ efforts to control their data on premise or in the cloud, […] More