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  • Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech

    Smiths Detection has received a $40.9 million follow-on task order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply a handheld radiation detection and identification system to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. The company said Tuesday it will provide its RadSeeker technology for department  personnel to detect, locate and identify the source of radiological materials. “RadSeeker technology was developed in cooperation with […] More

  • CGI Awarded State Dept Visa Process Support Service Task Order Recompete - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Awarded State Dept Visa Process Support Service Task Order Recompete

    CGI Federal has been awarded a potential four-year, $32 million recompeted task order to continue visa processing support services for the State Department‘s Bureau of Consular Affairs in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The subsidiary of Montreal-based CGI Group said Wednesday that it will work with the bureau to process visas for immigrants and non-immigrants as well as perform information delivery, appointment, document transfer and greeter […] More

  • DARPA to Host Workshop on Synthetic Polymer-Based Medicine R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Workshop on Synthetic Polymer-Based Medicine R&D Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a workshop in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on June 29 to discuss a program that seeks to develop medicines designed to retain potency for long periods of time amid exposure to extreme conditions on the battlefield. DARPA said Tuesday researchers under the Fold F(x) program aim to design biotherapeutics and […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Databricks Aim to Offer Intell Agencies Big Data Processing Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Databricks Aim to Offer Intell Agencies Big Data Processing Platform

    In-Q-Tel has signed a strategic investment and partnership agreement with Databricks in a push to help the San Francisco, California-based technology firm deploy an open-source big data processing engine to U.S. intelligence agencies. IQT said Tuesday Databricks’ Apache Spark platform is powered by cloud technology and designed for enterprise users to analyze huge amounts of data, integrate disparate information silos and gain insights […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Transitions WorldView-1 Imagery Satellite to Afternoon Orbit; Tim Hascall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Transitions WorldView-1 Imagery Satellite to Afternoon Orbit; Tim Hascall Comments

    DigitalGlobe has completed the shift of its WorldView-1 imagery satellite to an afternoon orbit from morning in an effort to help customers view changes that take place on Earth in a given day. WorldView-1 concluded its 18-month-long transition and will begin to pass above the planet in the afternoon to capture locations across different time zones, […] More

  • BARDA Issues Platelet Treatment Tech Trial Grant to Terumo BCT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BARDA Issues Platelet Treatment Tech Trial Grant to Terumo BCT

    Medical device manufacturer Terumo BCT has received $17.4 million in initial funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to conduct a clinical trial on a technology intended to help facilitate platelet treatments in patients. Terumo BCT said Tuesday its Pathogen Reduction Technology system designed to study the clinical effectiveness of standard platelets in plasma compared to Mirasol-treated platelets in plasma for patients […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Invests in Sensor R&D Project to Provide Tactical Data for Submariners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Invests in Sensor R&D Project to Provide Tactical Data for Submariners

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a sensor technology under an independent research-and-development project that aims to help  submariners gather, examine and access data on their surroundings. Johns Hopkins APL said Monday the Pelagos environmental data collection system works to measure air and sea parameters as well as employs customized algorithms designed to analyze and disseminate information to tactical users. […] More

  • Industrial Electronic Engineers to Supply Control Display Units for Northrop-Built Jammers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industrial Electronic Engineers to Supply Control Display Units for Northrop-Built Jammers

    Industrial Electronic Engineers has landed a contract to supply 3.5-inch handheld control display units for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command‘s Northrop Grumman-built software-programmable jammers. IEE said Tuesday the CDUs will be used on the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 systems designed to provide protection against device-triggered IEDs. “We’ve been working with […] More

  • Navy Adds Raytheon-Built Joint Standoff Weapon Tech to Fleet; Jaime Engdahl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Adds Raytheon-Built Joint Standoff Weapon Tech to Fleet; Jaime Engdahl Comments

    The U.S. Navy has introduced a Raytheon-built network-enabled weapon to its fleet of air wings deployed worldwide. The Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 was added to the fleet after the weapon recently completed operational testing against land and sea targets, the Navy said Monday. JSOW C-1 achieved initial operational capability in early June. “As our mission’s […] More

  • Chris Moran Named Lockheed Martin Ventures Executive Director, GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Moran Named Lockheed Martin Ventures Executive Director, GM

    J. Christopher Moran, a 35-year technology industry veteran and former senior executive at Applied Materials, has joined Lockheed Martin as executive director and general manager of the company’s venture capital business. He will manage Lockheed Martin Ventures‘ strategy and pipeline development, investment tracking, transaction execution and reporting functions, the company said Tuesday. “With his guidance, we will work with other leading investors […] More

  • Vencore CEO Mac Curtis Receives Leadership Award for Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore CEO Mac Curtis Receives Leadership Award for Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts

    Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, has received the Executive Leader of the Year award from the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his efforts as chairman of the 2015 Greater Washington Heart Walk. Curtis accepted the recognition as part of the Chamber’s 2016 Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Awards that seek to recognize companies and business […] More

  • PAE Awarded Defense Security Service's Industrial Security Achievement Award; John Heller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Awarded Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award; John Heller Comments

    Arlington, Virginia-based PAE has received the Defense Security Service‘s James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award for the company’s support to Naval Air Station Patuxent River. PAE said Tuesday 42 facilities received the Cogswell award, which DSS presented at a National Classification Management Society seminar June 8. PAE CEO John Heller noted the company has supported the U.S. Navy at Patuxent River […] More