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  • Steve Jurczyk: NASA Aims to Send Payloads to Mars Through SpaceX’s Red Dragon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Jurczyk: NASA Aims to Send Payloads to Mars Through SpaceX’s Red Dragon

    NASA plans to collaborate with SpaceX to use the company’s Red Dragon unmanned spacecraft concept to send payloads designed for technology demonstrations to Mars, Space News reported Thursday. Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, said at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference that potential payloads could include resource utilization-based platforms that could potentially turn water […] More

  • Army Taps Eaton to Help Modernize Fort Gordon Electrical Power Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Eaton to Help Modernize Fort Gordon Electrical Power Systems

    The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Eaton a $20 million task order to provide engineering services and power distribution and control equipment for an electrical infrastructure modernization project at Fort Gordon in Georgia. The power management company said Thursday it received the order through the U.S. Army‘s Utility and Monitoring Control Systems-IV contract vehicle. Eaton is one of the 13 companies that won positions on […] More

  • Purdue Receives Research Grant on Firefighting Foam Chemical's Effect on Amphibians - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue Receives Research Grant on Firefighting Foam Chemical’s Effect on Amphibians

    The Defense Department has granted a team of Purdue University researchers $2.5 million to fund their research on the effects of perfluoroalkyl, a chemical used in common commercial products and firefighting foams, on amphibians. The study aims to find the impact of different levels of perfluoroalkyl substance exposure throughout an amphibian’s lifespan, Purdue said Wednesday. Marisol […] More

  • Biff Lyons: Parsons Seeks to Help Secure Critical Infrastructure as ICIT Fellows Program Member - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Biff Lyons: Parsons Seeks to Help Secure Critical Infrastructure as ICIT Fellows Program Member

    Parsons has joined the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s fellows program that aims to grow the institute’s cybersecurity and infrastructure expertise. Biff Lyons, Parsons executive vice president and manager of the federal defense and security division; Josh Salmanson, senior business development director within the defense and security division; and Juan Espinosa, senior project manager, will represent […] More

  • Saab Lands CBRN Test Kit Supply Contract in Sweden; Nils-Erik Lindblom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Lands CBRN Test Kit Supply Contract in Sweden; Nils-Erik Lindblom Comments

    Saab will supply chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agent test kits to a government agency in Sweden that oversees disaster prevention efforts under a procurement agreement. Nils-Erik Lindblom, director of marketing and sales for CBRN at Saab, said Wednesday it will deliver a total of 27 CBRN test kits, test equipment and related consumables to the […] More

  • Interset Secures In-Q-Tel Investment for User Behavior Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Interset Secures In-Q-Tel Investment for User Behavior Analytics Platform

    Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has made an investment in Interset to help the cybersecurity company further develop its user behavior analytics technology. Interset designed its platform to help organizations uncover insider threats and compromised accounts as well as minimize fall-positive security alerts, the company said Thursday. “U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement communities have long sought to protect critical data with […] More

  • DHS Seeks Wearable Electronic Tools to Monitor Canine Health - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Wearable Electronic Tools to Monitor Canine Health

    The Department of Homeland Security has launched an industry solicitation for rugged wearable electronic devices to monitor the health of canine dogs operating under tough conditions, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes that DHS seeks a wearable contraption meant to gather field intelligence and canine health data without negative impact on the […] More

  • Helomics Lands VA Contract For Tumor Profiling Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Helomics Lands VA Contract For Tumor Profiling Test

    Helomics has secured a Federal Supply Schedule contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide access to the ChemoFx tumor profiling test for all government healthcare facilities. The Pittsburgh-based personalized healthcare company said Thursday ChemoFx is designed to supply tumor-specific information for clinicians to identify suitable chemotherapies and drugs for patients with tumor. Helomics President and CEO Neil Campbell said the test uses live […] More

  • Boeing Picks 6 Small Business Partners to Support ISS Engineering, Technical Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Picks 6 Small Business Partners to Support ISS Engineering, Technical Programs

    Boeing has awarded six small businesses contracts worth a combined $200 million to provide engineering, information technology, software development and mission assurance support services for the International Space Station. S&K Global Solutions, Barrios Technology, ALATEC, Summit Technologies & Solutions, RVMTI JV and All Points Logistics will provide ISS support under the Boeing Engineering and Technical Support Service program, Boeing said […] More

  • Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service's Industrial Security Achievement Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award

    Oshkosh Corporation has received the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Department‘s Defense Security Service for the company’s facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oshkosh is among the 42 cleared facilities that received the award for industrial security excellence during the annual National Classification Management Society seminar for the Society of Industrial Security Professionals in Nashville, […] More

  • SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. and the Huntsville, Alabama public school district have jointly launched a cyber educational program under a three-year, $300,000 commitment in an effort to help foster future cyber workers. SAIC and the school system introduced the Cyber Academy initiative at the National Cyber Summit and company cyber professionals will supply cyber curriculum […] More

  • Commerce Dept Names CompTIA's David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int'l Trade Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Names CompTIA’s David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int’l Trade Advisory Committee

    David Logsdon, CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council senior director, has joined the Commerce Department‘s International Trade Advisory Committee on Aerospace Equipment and will serve through the committee’s four-year charter term. The ITAC on Aerospace Equipment works to provide advisory support to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative on market access, trade barriers and other regional […] More