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  • IDC Report Labels Unisys a "Leader" Among Systems Integrators for Feds; PV Puvvada Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Report Labels Unisys a “Leader” Among Systems Integrators for Feds; PV Puvvada Comments

    An IDC MarketScape report designated Unisys a “leader” among systems integrators that serve the U.S. federal government and recognized the company’s security and cloud portfolio. Unisys said Friday the vendor assessment report noted the company’s offerings such as the Unisys Stealth micro-segmentation software and its DevOps and Agile software development methodologies. The company added the IDC report also indicate that government customers point […] More

  • NIH Awards Grant to SAB Biotherapeutics for Flu Treatment R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Awards Grant to SAB Biotherapeutics for Flu Treatment R&D

    SAB Biotherapeutics has received a $1.42 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the production and preclinical testing of an antibody the company designed to treat influenza. The company said Wednesday it teamed up with the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine for the project under the BioSNTR program that works to […] More

  • USmax Secures Contract Modification for Five-Year Extension on GSA STARS II Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USmax Secures Contract Modification for Five-Year Extension on GSA STARS II Vehicle

    USmax has received a contract modification to exercise the five-year option period on its General Services Administration STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology service offerings to federal government clients. The company said Wednesday it will continue to provide its cybersecurity, technical and physical security, IT infrastructure management and enterprise application services via the STARS II contract through Aug. 30, […] More

  • NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory

    NASA has selected the Goddard Space Flight Center’s team of industry and academic investigators to build a spectrometer that will work to support planet formation research aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The space agency said Thursday the High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer will be built by a team of investigators with GSFC senior scientist Samuel Harvey Moseley […] More

  • NASA, Harmonic Release Astronaut Space-Walk Training Virtual Reality Video - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Harmonic Release Astronaut Space-Walk Training Virtual Reality Video

    NASA and video services company Harmonic have unveiled a 360-degree, virtual reality video on NASA TV’s Youtube channel to show three different perspectives of astronauts in space-walk training. Harmonic said Wednesday the video was taken at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston where astronauts train for future missions through an indoor pool of water and a life-size replica of the […] More

  • General Atomics Finalizes Aircraft Integration, Moves to Developmental Tests on Certifiable Predator B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Finalizes Aircraft Integration, Moves to Developmental Tests on Certifiable Predator B

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems subsidiary has shipped its new Certifiable Predator B remotely piloted aircraft to its Gray Butte flight operations facility for developmental tests after the company completed aircraft integration for the system. CPB is set to undergo ground and taxi tests before initial flight tests in November under an experimental certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, General Atomics said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Moderna Therapeutics Receives Potential $125M HHS Contract to Develop Zika Virus Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moderna Therapeutics Receives Potential $125M HHS Contract to Develop Zika Virus Vaccine

    Moderna Therapeutics has secured a potential five-year, $125 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to produce a vaccine for the Zika virus. HHS said Wednesday ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will help Moderna conduct clinical trial, toxicology studies, vaccine formulation and manufacturing through the contract’s four-year […] More

  • Navy Tests AeroVironment Blackwing UAV's Cross-Domain Data Relay Function - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests AeroVironment Blackwing UAV’s Cross-Domain Data Relay Function

    The U.S. Navy has demonstrated the communication, control and command functions of a small AeroVironment-built unmanned aircraft vehicle at the service branch’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise. AeroVironment said Wednesday its Blackwing UAV worked to connect with a swarm of unmanned undersea vehicles and communicated with a manned submarine’s combat control system during the ANTX event. The drone used a government-owned digital data link to transfer […] More

  • Oceus Networks Unveils Mobile 4G LTE Products for Various Deployment Scenarios - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oceus Networks Unveils Mobile 4G LTE Products for Various Deployment Scenarios

    Oceus Networks has launched three additions to its family of mobile 4G LTE products in efforts to support size, weight and power needs of different deployment scenarios. The Reston, Virginia-based mobile technology company said Wednesday its new Xiphos Micro, Xiphos Macro and Xiphos Mid platforms are designed to aid on-the-move teams, large deployments and both large and on-the-move deployments, respectively. Oceus added Xiphos is the […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Gene-Editing Program; Renee Wegrzyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Gene-Editing Program; Renee Wegrzyn Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a proposers day on Sept. 30 regarding a program that aims to develop tools that will work to mitigate potential safety risks and advance the potential of gene-editing technologies. DARPA said Wednesday the Safe Genes program aims to address safety gaps in the field of genome editing using biosafety and biosecurity tools. “Gene […] More

  • XTec Secures $60M Task Order to Continue State Dept ID Mgmt System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    XTec Secures $60M Task Order to Continue State Dept ID Mgmt System Support

    XTec has received a potential three-year, $60 million task order to continue to provide project management and technical support services for the State Department‘s enterprise identity management system. XTec said Thursday the order contains one base year and four six-month options and falls under a blanket purchase agreement that was based on the company’s Federal Supply Schedule contract with the General […] More

  • Juniper to Provide Networking Infrastructure for Natl Center for Atmospheric Research Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juniper to Provide Networking Infrastructure for Natl Center for Atmospheric Research Supercomputer

    The federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research has selected Juniper Networks to build the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that scientists will use to forecast climate patterns and analyze the effects of global warming. Juniper said Wednesday the machine will be deployed to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center this fall and is designed to generate 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. Tim Solms, vice president of Juniper […] More