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  • DEA Seeks Info on Potential Lab Info Mgmt Tech Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DEA Seeks Info on Potential Lab Info Mgmt Tech Sources

    The Drug Enforcement Administration wants information on potential vendors that can provide a laboratory information management system. DEA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday it seeks an LIMS platform to modernize, streamline and manage all processes related to the handling of drug evidence at DEA laboratories. The agency wants a commercial off-the-shelf software product that can […] More

  • NASA, Institute for Local Innovations Enter Tech Marketing Partnership Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Institute for Local Innovations Enter Tech Marketing Partnership Agreement

    NASA has signed a five-year Space Act Agreement with the Institute for Local Innovations in Louisiana to promote agency-developed technology platforms to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The agency said Monday ILI and the technology transfer office within NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center aim to help drive economic development efforts in certain U.S. regions through the partnership. ILI will […] More

  • Comtech Gets $74M Wireless Emergency Comms Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets $74M Wireless Emergency Comms Support Contract

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ safety and security technologies group has secured a potential four-year, $73.8 million contract to help a U.S. telecommunications company implement wireless emergency communications services. Work also covers operational and maintenance support for Enhanced 9-1-1 systems designed to route emergency calls from mobile devices to a public-safety answering point as well as transmit location data […] More

  • Lockheed Awards Scholarship to 2 Wounded Army Veterans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards Scholarship to 2 Wounded Army Veterans

    Lockheed Martin has given Fighting Spirit Scholarship awards to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett and Staff Sgt. Jay Fondren, both of whom were injured while on active duty in Iraq. The company said Monday its scholarship program offers wounded military veterans with flight and sailing opportunities through the support of Warrior Sailing Program and Able Flight nonprofit organizations. Able […] More

  • Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals

    Michael Fischer, formerly director of capture management at IAP Worldwide Services, has been appointed director of capture and proposals at Comprehensive Health Services. CHS said Tuesday Fischer brings more than 25 years of program management, capture and business development experience to the Florida-based medical services contractor’s business development team. Before IAP, he held the positions of capture manager, senior […] More

  • Philip Bilden Elected to Huntington Ingalls Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philip Bilden Elected to Huntington Ingalls Board

    Philip Bilden, a former military intelligence officer and co-founding member of private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ board of directors. HII said Monday Bilden has held senior leadership roles during his 25-year career at HarbourVest that includes time at the company’s offices in Boston and Hong Kong where he established its Asian subsidiary. […] More

  • Marine Corps Selects Yates Autonomous Cargo Aircraft for 12-Month Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Selects Yates Autonomous Cargo Aircraft for 12-Month Flight Test

    The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has selected Yates Electrospace Corp.‘s Silent Arrow autonomous cargo aircraft to take part in a 12-month flight test effort. The company said Monday its engineers and test pilots will build and operate 10 Silent Arrow unmanned aerial systems that weigh between 500 pounds to 1,000 pounds. MCWL seeks to evaluate […] More

  • Raytheon's Thomas Kennedy: Threats Target Nat'l Defense, Infrastructure Amid Increased Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: Threats Target Nat’l Defense, Infrastructure Amid Increased Connectivity

    Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO at Raytheon, has said nation states, cyber criminals and “hacktivists” pose a threat to infrastructure, businesses, individuals and national defense, The Financial News and Daily Record reported Friday. Kennedy noted at the Davis Leadership Forum at Jacksonville University in Florida that current cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist in more than information technology […] More

  • Marty Williams: Govt Agencies Should Take 'Product & Platform Approach' to Digital Services Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marty Williams: Govt Agencies Should Take ‘Product & Platform Approach’ to Digital Services Delivery

    Marty Williams, technology vice president of digital government services provider NIC, has said government agencies could address the need for citizen-centric digital services through a “product and platform” delivery approach. Williams wrote in an article published Thursday on GCN that a product and platform mindset allows information technology teams to continuously deploy microservices within a platform […] More

  • Inmarsat's Peter Hadinger: Integrated Commercial Satcom Key to Support Military Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Peter Hadinger: Integrated Commercial Satcom Key to Support Military Operations

    Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, has said that ongoing military operations require an improved acquisition model for satellite communications and further integration of commercial satcom systems. Hadinger stated during a presentation at the Global MilSatCom 2017 event in London that military satcom challenges stem from budget, acquisition and cultural issues instead of technological capabilities, Inmarsat said Friday. […] More

  • NASA Evaluates SpaceX's Potential Reuse of Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle on Future ISS Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Evaluates SpaceX’s Potential Reuse of Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle on Future ISS Mission

    NASA will evaluate SpaceX‘s potential reuse of a previously-deployed first stage launch vehicle on a future mission to the International Space Station, Space News reported Saturday. Dan Hartman, ISS deputy program manager, said during a press conference at the space agency’s Wallops Flight Facility that the agency currently performs a review on the Falcon 9‘s use […] More

  • UK MoD Taps Leonardo for Radar Threat Simulation Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK MoD Taps Leonardo for Radar Threat Simulation Equipment

    Leonardo has inked a contract with the U.K. ministry of defense to deliver equipment that can help simulate radar threats to the U.K. air force’s A400M transport aircraft prior to launch. The company said Sunday the simulations will help commanders implement defensive aids suites that can help the A400M aircraft function properly during its flight […] More