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  • Quantum Spatial Wins Photogrammetric Surveying and Mapping Contract From Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quantum Spatial Wins Photogrammetric Surveying and Mapping Contract From Army

    Quantum Spatial has landed a five-year, $12.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army  design and engineer photogrammetric surveying and mapping systems. The Defense Department said Friday the Army Corps of Engineers received 25 bids for the contract via the internet and will determine funds and work location based on each order. The company will perform work […] More

  • DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers

    Elbit Systems of America has secured a $7.3 million firm-fixed price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply grip assembly controllers to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday DLA’s land and maritime unit will obligate fiscal 2016 Army working capital funds for work to be performed in Texas through Sept. 30, 2018. DoD noted the […] More

  • DoD Names 15 Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Names 15 Employer Support Freedom Award Recipients

    The Defense Department presented 15 public and private organizations with the 2016 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Awards during a ceremony held Friday at the Pentagon. DoD said Friday the awardees were chosen from the 2,424 nominations made by U.S. Guard and Reserve employees and recognized for their programs that aid military families during deployment. “These […] More

  • HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems' Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS to Back Chembio Diagnostic Systems’ Zika Virus Test Development; Richard Hatchett Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Chembio Diagnostic Systems $5.9 million in initial contract funds to develop a lateral-flow serological test to identify antibodies produced by the human immune system in response to Zika virus. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will provide the funds to support the test’s continued development, manufacturing preparations and […] More

  • CGI Supports California Franchise Tax Board's IT Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Supports California Franchise Tax Board’s IT Modernization Project

    CGI has led the implementation of a California Franchise Tax Board information technology modernization project that has achieved $2.6 billion in revenue over five years. The IT and business process services company said Thursday the Enterprise Data to Revenue project aims to update FTB’s customer service, revenue generation and organizational transparency. Dave Delgado, a senior vice president at CGI, said the company provided a system that […] More

  • QTS Attains PCI DSS v3.1 Certification for Colocation Services at Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Attains PCI DSS v3.1 Certification for Colocation Services at Dallas-Fort Worth Data Center

    QTS has attained the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard version 3.1 information security certification and attestation of compliance for the company’s colocation services at its data center in Dallas, Texas. The company said Monday the certification makes the Dallas-Fort Worth data center its fourth PCI DSS v3.1 compliant center. QTS added it implemented a network architecture designed to address more than […] More

  • 3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3 Companies Utilize VMware Virtual SAN Hyperconverged Service for Workload Migration, Virtualization

    VMware has said Amway, iGov Technologies and SugarCreek will deploy the VMware Virtual SAN hyperconverged service to run business-critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. The technology works to support shared storage for virtualized production environments that can scale out to several server providers, VMware said Tuesday. Michigan-based Amway transitioned 300 application servers, databases and other workloads to Virtual SAN. Systems integrator and value-added reseller […] More

  • Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Opens New Office in Virginia in Push to Support DHS Component Agencies

    Sevatec has opened a new office in Crystal City in Arlington County, Virginia, in an effort to deliver information technology services to Department of Homeland Security operational and support components. The new office’s project delivery teams support the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joint Engineering Teams-Sustainment contract and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s Student Exchange and Visitor Program contract for optional practical training […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the federal government aggregator of Geofeedia‘s location-based social media intelligence tools under a partnership agreement between the two companies. Geofeedia said Wednesday its products are now available to public sector agencies through Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule and Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts. Tiffany Goddard, director of geospatial solutions at Carahsoft, said the […] More

  • University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments

    A team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $110 million award from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a project that aims to provide scientists and engineers access to computing resources. NSF said Tuesday principal investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will collaborate with other researchers from […] More

  • 1st Predator A Pilots Graduate From General Atomics' UAS Flight Training Academy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    1st Predator A Pilots Graduate From General Atomics’ UAS Flight Training Academy

    A General Atomics subsidiary has produced the first batch of graduates from its North Dakota-based Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Training Academy on Aug. 12. The graduating class of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.‘s training academy includes three pilots who are now qualified to operate the Predator A UAS and will join approximately 230 globally deployed GA-ASI aircrews, General Atomics said Thursday. GA-ASI opened the flight […] More

  • AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AlloSource Partners with NASA, JPL on Microbial Research; Peter Stevens Comments

    AlloSource, a nonprofit cellular and tissue network, has partnered with NASA and the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct microbial research in an effort to help improve medical care for astronauts who fly into space. A team of AlloSource, NASA and JPL scientists aims to determine the effects of zero gravity on antibiotic resistant genes in microorganisms taken […] More