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  • CorasCloud-HumanTouch Team Rolls Out Project Mgmt Tool at DISA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CorasCloud-HumanTouch Team Rolls Out Project Mgmt Tool at DISA

    CorasCloud has teamed up with HumanTouch to deploy a project and portfolio management platform to 1,100 users across the Defense Information Systems Agency within a three-month period. The CorasCloud-built CORASManage PPM platform is designed to help users manage performance, schedule and cost of programs and projects, CorasCloud said Wednesday. The platform, also known as the Management […] More

  • Orbital ATK Supports NASA Operation to Test SLS Booster Capacity at Extreme Temperatures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Supports NASA Operation to Test SLS Booster Capacity at Extreme Temperatures

    An Orbital ATK facility has started to host a NASA operation that will analyze a test version booster’s capacity to perform at extreme temperatures. NASA said Friday three large air-conditioning units began to continuously pump air at 25 degrees Fahrenheit through June 28 in an effort to hit reach the 40-degree cold temperature target for the Space Launch System […] More

  • AT&T's Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

    Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

  • Kratos to Help Update Pentagon's Theater Medical Records System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system. Kratos will collaborate with Planned Systems International to modernize and maintain the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint infrastructure, Kratos said Friday. The two companies will also update information technology […] More

  • 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