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  • Grant Thornton-HSDBC Study: Next Administration Should Build on DHS ‘Unity of Effort’ Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton-HSDBC Study: Next Administration Should Build on DHS ‘Unity of Effort’ Program

    A new report by Grant Thornton and the Homeland Security & Defense Business Council says industry and government executives want the next administration to build on the Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s Unity of Effort initiative to help streamline management across the homeland security enterprise. Grant Thornton’s public sector business and HSDBC polled 102 government and industry […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts Super Hornet Fly-In Recovery With Arresting Gear System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Conducts Super Hornet Fly-In Recovery With Arresting Gear System

    General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has conducted the first fly-in aircraft recovery of an F/A-18E Super Hornet with the use of the company’s Advanced Arresting Gear system to verify AAG’s performance. The fly-in aircraft recovery operation performed at the Runway Arrested Landing Site at Joint base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey Oct. 13 comes on the […] More

  • Georgia Tech Receives DoD Cyber Attribution Framework Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Georgia Tech Receives DoD Cyber Attribution Framework Development Contract

    Georgia Tech has received a $17.3 million contract from the Defense Department to build an attribution framework the military hopes can help identify the actors behind cyber attacks. A Georgia Tech blog post published Tuesday says Rhamnousia will help gather evidence against cyber attackers and identify their methods, errors and other characteristics. That platform will provide scientific reasoning and evidences […] More

  • Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential $16.8 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to operate, update and maintain a government-owned off-the-shelf application that works to help VA manage programs and operations. The company said Friday the contract contains four 12-month option periods with optional tasks for software upgrades in support of VA’s Budget Tracking Tool. “We value the […] More

  • Lockheed Performs First Initial T-50A Trainer Aircraft Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Performs First Initial T-50A Trainer Aircraft Flight Test

    Lockheed Martin has completed an initial flight test on the joint offering between the company and Korea Aerospace Industries for the U.S. Air Force‘s advanced pilot training competition. Lockheed said Thursday the company’s facility in Greenville, South Carolina will serve as the final assembly and checkout facility for the T-50A aircraft that will train F-22 […] More

  • Jeff Barr: AWS Unveils Anti-DDoS Managed Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Barr: AWS Unveils Anti-DDoS Managed Service

    Amazon Web Services has launched a new cybersecurity managed service intended to help clients protect web applications against three types of distributed-denial-of-service attacks. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in a blog post published Thursday the AWS Shield  offering is designed to work alongside Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront and Route 53 platforms. AWS Shield consists of a standard […] More

  • State Dept Chooses Nlyte Platform to Manage Data Center Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Chooses Nlyte Platform to Manage Data Center Infrastructure

    The State Department has selected Nlyte Software to provide an enterprise-grade  technology platform to help DOS manage data center operations and comply with the government’s Data Center Optimization Initiative. Nlyte said Thursday it will deploy the Data Center Infrastructure Management platform, BMC Remedy Change Management and BMC Atrium CMDB connectors across multiple server racks for the department. “Many federal […] More

  • BAE Unveils Aerospace Training Facility in UK; Chris Boardman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils Aerospace Training Facility in UK; Chris Boardman Comments

    BAE Systems has launched a new facility in Lancashire, England, that seeks to provide aerospace training and skills development support to the company’s employees and apprentices. The company’s Academy for Skills & Knowledge will also provide training support to the north west England’s engineering and manufacturing industry and serve as an education facility for school […] More

  • Microsoft Secures Air Force Network Enterprise Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Secures Air Force Network Enterprise Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Microsoft a four-year, $44.7 million contract to provide proactive and reactive services in support of the military service’s network enterprise. USAF aims to increase the operational efficiency, performance and uptime of AFNet with Microsoft Premier Support, the Defense Department said Thursday. Microsoft will perform contract work at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, Ramstein […] More

  • American Systems to Provide Engineering Services to DoD's Developmental, Test & Evaluation Org - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems to Provide Engineering Services to DoD’s Developmental, Test & Evaluation Org

    American Systems will provide warfare area staff specialists to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation under a $5.7 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services. The Defense Department said Thursday American Systems will perform professional engineering services in support of the Major Defense Acquisition Program/Major Automated Information System initiatives. Work will […] More

  • FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board

    Steven Smith, senior manager of the First Responder Network Authority, has joined the board of advisers of Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec. He brings to Sevatec’s advisory board three decades of information technology management experience in both the public and private sectors, the company said Thursday. “We are fortunate to have [Smith] lending his broad federal government […] More

  • Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council

    CompTIA has appointed Matthew Jones, director of C4ISR and advanced technology and government operations at Boeing, as chair of the technology industry association’s space enterprise council. Susan Nelson, director of government affairs and Washington operations at Aerojet Rocketdyne, will serve as vice chair of SEC, CompTIA said Thursday. “Under Matt and Susan’s guidance, we expect the […] More