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  • HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has amended a previously awarded contract option to Cytori Therapeutics to fund continued development and investigation of the company’s burn wound treatment. Cytori said Monday BARDA increased the option’s value by $2.5 million to approximately $16.6 million and supplemental funds from the amended contract will support activities necessary […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom-as-a-Service Model to Address DoD Resiliency Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom-as-a-Service Model to Address DoD Resiliency Requirements

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has pitched the idea of a satellite communications-as-a-service model as key to help the Defense Department achieve an integrated architecture for military satellite communications. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in an guest piece for MilSat Magazine that military officials face budget challenges due to spending limits as they work to recapitalize space […] More

  • Ken Peterman: ViaSat to Provide Wideband Anti-Jam Communications System to US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Peterman: ViaSat to Provide Wideband Anti-Jam Communications System to US Military

    ViaSat has been awarded a $33.3 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide a wideband anti-jam communications system that will work to connect military forces in jammed operational environments. The Protected Tactical Service Field Demonstration program seeks an anti-jamming system to support tactical users on the Wideband Global Satellite Communications and commercial satcom networks, the company said Monday. The program seeks to help federal […] More

  • Dell's Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell’s Cameron Chehreh: Federal CIOs Should Adopt Incremental Strategies to Update Legacy Apps

    Cameron Chehreh, federal chief technology officer at Dell, has said chief information officers at agencies should adopt incremental modernization strategies to update legacy applications. Chehreh told MeriTalk writer Mary Tobin in an interview posted Monday that legacy applications represent many of the challenges federal CIOs will face as agencies work to comply with the Office of Management and Budget‘s Data Center Optimization Initiative. […] More

  • ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Reschedules DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch to Sept. 26

    United Launch Alliance has updated the estimated launch date of a DigitalGlobe commercial imaging satellite due to the availability of Vandenberg Air Force Base’s western range. ULA said Sunday the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite will launch to space no earlier than Sept. 26. The satellite and the ULA Atlas V rocket that will carry it are currently housed in the mobile service tower at Vandenberg […] More

  • Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Immuron, Naval Medical Research Center Partner to Test Supplement Against Stomach-Ailing Bacteria

    Australia-based Immuron has entered a research and development collaboration agreement with the Naval Medical Research Center to test the bio-pharmaceutical company’s drug against gastrointestinal problems. The company said Aug. 30 it will test the Travelan dietary supplement against Campylobacter and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli gram-negative bacteria to help develop therapeutics in an effort to protect military and civilian populations from diarrhea. Immuron and NMRC researchers […] More

  • State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 Radar, Humvee Sale to Egypt

    The State Department has approved Egypt’s request to purchase Sentinel AN/MPQ-64F1 radars, High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles Ml 152 and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon, will serve as principal contractor for the sale that covers eight Sentinel radars, 16 HMMWV Ml 152 […] More

  • ERP International to Help Manage Defense Health Agency’s E-Commerce Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ERP International to Help Manage Defense Health Agency’s E-Commerce Program

    Enterprise Resource Planned Systems International has won a $7.7 million task order from the Defense Health Agency to maintain and operate the electronic commerce program of DHA. The order contains one base year, four option years and an 11-day transition period that will run through Sept. 27, the Defense Department said Monday. ERP International will also support DHA’s efforts to procure, manage and […] More

  • ViON's Tony Encinias: Cyber Analytics Can Help Governments Predict Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON’s Tony Encinias: Cyber Analytics Can Help Governments Predict Attacks

    Tony Encinias, vice president of public sector strategy at ViON, has discussed the role of cyber analytics as a service in work by governments to mitigate potential threats against systems and information in an interview with GovTech posted Friday. Encinias told the publication government agencies have adopted cybersecurity tools as a first step to analyze networks and address breaches but organizations experience difficulty in […] More

  • Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $19.4 million contract to continue to help NASA operate a satellite the company designed to observe the sun and support related scientific studies. Lockheed said Monday the contract extends the company’s support for the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph observatory through September 2018, with an option for further extension of the performance period until September 2019. “IRIS has taken more […] More

  • Lockheed-Tata JV Completes 50th C-130J Empennage Assembly Delivery; S. Ramadorai Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Tata JV Completes 50th C-130J Empennage Assembly Delivery; S. Ramadorai Comments

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Tata Advanced Systems has completed the delivery of the 50th empennage assembly of the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. Tata Lockheed Martin Aerostructures Ltd. has produced empennage assemblies in Hyderabad, India, that include the Super Hercules’ vertical and horizontal stabilizers as well as 28 sets of the aircraft’s center wing box […] More

  • OGSystems to Help Update Navy's Center for Security Forces Training Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems to Help Update Navy’s Center for Security Forces Training Programs

    OGSystems has received a $3.8 million contract to provide new technology and approaches in support of efforts to modernize training programs at the U.S. Navy‘s Center for Security Forces. The company said Monday it will employ immersive engineering, lean startup and agile methods, as well as utilize virtual and augmented reality platforms to help transform the Navy’s training […] More