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  • Dan Bennewitz: QTS to Open Mega Data Center in Downtown Chicago - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Bennewitz: QTS to Open Mega Data Center in Downtown Chicago

    QTS Realty Trust will open a 317,000-square-foot data center in downtown Chicago Friday to provide a range of information technology infrastructure services to government and enterprise customers. QTS said Tuesday it collaborated Mortenson Construction and consulting-engineering firm ESD to design and build the mega data center on the former Chicago Sun-Times  complex. The facility is built to offer direct access to long-haul fiber networks for organizations located in Chicago’s central […] More

  • DHS Orders Emergency Responder Uniforms From Mission Ready Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Orders Emergency Responder Uniforms From Mission Ready Services

    Mission Ready Services has received an order from the Department of Homeland Security to produce an additional 176 uniform in cooperation with North Carolina State University for emergency responders. NCSU will subject the additional uniforms through further systems-level tests and DHS will perform field evaluations on the units, Mission Ready Services said Tuesday. Mission Ready Services’ […] More

  • Cubic Global Defense Unit Demos Instrumentation Integration Features on Canada F-18 Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Global Defense Unit Demos Instrumentation Integration Features on Canada F-18 Jet

    A Cubic business segment has demonstrated new training features on an F-18 fighter jet for Canada’s air force at the annual Maple Resolve air-ground training exercise. The company said Wednesday Cubic Global Defense has integrated its Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation with the Canadian Weapon Effect Simulation system on the F-18 aircraft that conducted simulated attacks and processed real-time kill notification weapon effects. Joint […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Continue CMS Health Insurance Marketplace Data Service Hub Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    eGlobalTech to Continue CMS Health Insurance Marketplace Data Service Hub Tests

    eGlobalTech has received a contract to continue its tests of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ Health Insurance Marketplace Data Service Hub. eGT’s Senior Director for CMS said in a release posted Tuesday that the data service hub works to process millions of transactions during the open enrollment period and route user information to determine eligibility. The […] More

  • Mitre, Allied Minds Expand Tech Licensing Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, Allied Minds Expand Tech Licensing Agreement

    Mitre has expanded its partnership with Allied Minds to provide the latter company exclusive access to some of the nonprofit’s patented inventions and related technical information. The new agreement allows the Allied Minds Federal Innovations organization to review Mitre’s intellectual property portfolio and to potentially license technology into companies established by AMFI, Allied Minds said Tuesday. AMFI-formed companies will be given capital, central management and startup […] More

  • BroadSoft Takes Unified Comms Offering Through FedRAMP Process; Scott Hoffpauir Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BroadSoft Takes Unified Comms Offering Through FedRAMP Process; Scott Hoffpauir Comments

    BroadSoft has kicked off the process to comply with the governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for the company’s cloud-based unified communication software offering in order to help partners provide the product to government clients. The company’s BroadCloud platform and UC-One application will be available to government agencies via BroadSoft’s public sector channel partners […] More

  • VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification

    IBM‘s Watson Health business unit and the Department of Veteran Affairs have formed a public-private partnership to help VA doctors identify personalized cancer treatment options for veterans. The VA said Wednesday scientists and pathologists will use IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology to determine possible cancer-causing mutations from patients’ genetic alteration files and identify potential treatment options for those mutations. […] More

  • DHS to Hold Agile IT Support Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Hold Agile IT Support Industry Day

    The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day Wednesday in Washington to discuss its planned department-wide contract vehicle for “agile” information technology support services. The event will feature a networking session for contractors and non-traditional vendors who aim to do business with the federal government, DHS said in a notice posted on FedBizOpps. DHS originally released a request for information in […] More

  • Engility to Continue Tactical Intell Gathering Support for Army; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Continue Tactical Intell Gathering Support for Army; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential $24 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s efforts to gather and provide global intelligence data to military commanders. The company said Wednesday it will continue to provide engineering services for the service branch’s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Program under the recompete firm-fixed-price contract. “Our systems engineering knowledge, combined with insight into advanced […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded ASRC Federal a potential five-year, $190 million contract to help the 71st Flying Training Wing run and maintain the Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma. ASRC Federal said Thursday the contract covers installation, engineering, transportation, communication and inventory and supply management services. The company will also provide operations support for on-site and auxiliary field fire departments. “We […] More

  • General Dynamics Conducts Air Portability Tests on U.K.'s Ajax Ground Vehicle Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Conducts Air Portability Tests on U.K.’s Ajax Ground Vehicle Platform

    A U.K. subsidiary of General Dynamics has concluded initial air portability tests on the Ajax family of armored fighting vehicles for the British army. General Dynamics land Systems-UK tested how the ARES variant prototype would load into the cargo hold of the British air force’s C-17A Globemaster III and A400M Atlas transport planes during the Ajax program trials, General Dynamics said Tuesday. Kevin Connell, vice president […] More