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  • 40 Firms Receive Cyber Threat Indicators Via DHS Info Sharing Network; Andy Ozment Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    40 Firms Receive Cyber Threat Indicators Via DHS Info Sharing Network; Andy Ozment Comments

    Approximately 40 private sector firms have started to receive data on cyber threat indicators from the Department of Homeland Security through the Automated Indicator Sharing network, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Nicole Ogrysko writes that one company has begun to secure and share information on cyber vulnerabilities with DHS through the AIS network. DHS introduced AIS […] More

  • Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS

    Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has signed an initial payload agreement with Neumann Space to develop a future Bartolomeo platform for International Space Station. Airbus said Thursday the Bartolomeo platform will give private and institutional users access to the ISS on commercial terms with a payload mission service designed to support clients in areas such as Earth observation, technology […] More

  • Boeing Installs Simulation Training Equipment for NASA Starliner Crew - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Installs Simulation Training Equipment for NASA Starliner Crew

    Boeing has outfitted NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with new simulation training equipment to support the crew of the company-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The company’s Crew Part-Task Trainers are designed to simulate various Starliner mission aspects, NASA said in a blog post published Wednesday. JSC engineers will manage the simulations as astronauts rehearse Starliner missions, the space agency added. Suni Williams and Bob […] More

  • CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure

    A consortium led by CSRA has expanded a supercomputing cluster at the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Information Technology in an effort to help NIH researchers process and analyze large data sets. The company and its partners added the latest computing power increment to the Biowulf infrastructure that NIH uses to perform computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and biomedical research projects, […] More

  • Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI

    The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

  • Harris Ships 1st GPS OCX Satellite Receiver, Encryptors to Raytheon Under Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Ships 1st GPS OCX Satellite Receiver, Encryptors to Raytheon Under Subcontract

    Harris Corp. has shipped the first of 34 satellite receivers for the GPS Operational Control System to Raytheon after the former company completed an electromagnetic interference test of the initial hardware, Space News reported Thursday. The Florida-based communications equipment provider also delivered to Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business 14 ground encryptors that will work […] More

  • Navy Solicits Proposals for SPAWAR Crypto I&Y Cable Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Solicits Proposals for SPAWAR Crypto I&Y Cable Production Contract

    The Department of the Navy has solicited offers from vendors to supply the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command with crypto I&Y cable assemblies designed to support the service branch’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. The Navy said Wednesday it plans to award a potential 10-year, firm-fixed price contract to the winning contractor. The […] More

  • Booz Allen Updates Sailfish Data Analytics Platform Offering; Josh Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Updates Sailfish Data Analytics Platform Offering; Josh Sullivan Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has updated the company’s analytics platform to include a machine-learning algorithm for commercial and government clients to gain insight from data. A team of more than 600 Booz Allen data scientists worked to develop algorithms in an effort to help maintain vehicle safety, expand access to vaccines and combat human trafficking activities with the Sailfish technology, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • Connecticut Legislature OKs $220M Incentive Package for Lockheed’s Sikorsky Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connecticut Legislature OKs $220M Incentive Package for Lockheed’s Sikorsky Subsidiary

    The Connecticut General Assembly has approved a $220 million incentive package to keep the factory of Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary in the state and increase the helicopter business’ workforce to more than 8,000 by 2032, Connecticut Post reported Wednesday. Ken Dixon writes Sikorsky will build 200 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters at its Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility as […] More

  • DISA Extends Comtech Subsidiary's Tactical Satcom Services for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Extends Comtech Subsidiary’s Tactical Satcom Services for Marine Corps

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has received an additional $14.4 million order by the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue the company’s managed satellite support services to the U.S. Marine Corps. DISA awarded the order to exercise the third option year under a previously awarded contract to TeleCommunication Systems, which is part of Comtech’s government services segment, the company said Thursday. The exercised option […] More

  • Army Selects PacStar Software for Wireless Comms Mgmt; Peggy Miller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects PacStar Software for Wireless Comms Mgmt; Peggy Miller Comments

    PacStar has been selected by the U.S. Army to provide a software platform for the military service to manage the security of wireless command posts. The Army chose PacStar’s IQ-Core Software with Commercial Solutions for Classified  Plug-In to help secure classified information as part of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 1 program, the company said Thursday. PacStar noted the plug-in will work to address setup, […] More

  • Microsoft's Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process

    Microsoft has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management software offering for public sector clients. The company said Thursday its Dynamics CRM Online Government platform has been granted P-ATO at moderate level through the FedRAMP Accelerated process that works to expedite the CSP certification timeline within six months or less. […] More