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  • NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory

    NASA has selected the Goddard Space Flight Center’s team of industry and academic investigators to build a spectrometer that will work to support planet formation research aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The space agency said Thursday the High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer will be built by a team of investigators with GSFC senior scientist Samuel Harvey Moseley […] More

  • Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head

    Mike White, mission area executive for air and missile defense at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2005, has been appointed to lead the APL’s air and missile defense sector. The 35-year APL veteran will succeed Conrad Grant, who has led the sector for 11 years before he was named as the lab’s chief engineer earlier this year, […] More

  • USAID Chooses 21 Innovation Proposals to Help Fight Zika Virus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID Chooses 21 Innovation Proposals to Help Fight Zika Virus

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has released the initial list of funding recipients under a $30 million competition that seeks to develop methods and tools for counter-Zika virus efforts. USAID said Tuesday it received almost 900 proposals worldwide for its Combating Zika and Future Threats: A Grand Challenge for Development and chose only 21 submissions across such categories as vector […] More

  • NASA Awards Distinguished Public Service Medal to Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Tom Krimigis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards Distinguished Public Service Medal to Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Tom Krimigis

    NASA has awarded Tom Krimigis, a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory veteran scientist, the space agency’s highest service honor in a ceremony held at NASA Ames Research Center in California. The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal recognizes Krimigis’ work to support space exploration programs, John Hopkins APL said Friday. “We are incredibly proud of Tom and this […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Team to Work on NASA Solar Array Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Team to Work on NASA Solar Array Devt Program

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory will collaborate with SolAero Technologies, Deployable Space Systems and RA Stall Consulting on a NASA program that seeks to develop solar array platforms designed for deep space missions. APL said Thursday the team has entered into contract negotiations with NASA on the Transformational Solar Array for Extreme Environments proposal under the space agency’s Game […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Develops Multi-Mission Submersible UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Develops Multi-Mission Submersible UAV

    A team of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researchers has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle the research team designed to submerge into or launch from deep waters to perform various missions. APL said Thursday its force projection sector and research and exploratory development unit collaborated to build a Corrosion Resistant Aerial Covert Unmanned Nautical System prototype. Lab researchers used […] More

  • PARC Lands DARPA Contract to Develop Printer for Macroscopic Objects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PARC Lands DARPA Contract to Develop Printer for Macroscopic Objects

    PARC has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to build a nanotechnology-enabled printer that uses micrometer-size particles to produce macroscopic objects. The company said Wednesday the contract was awarded as part of DARPA’s Atoms to Product program, which began research efforts in December 2015. PARC said it will employ the help of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland in […] More

  • Executive Profile: Rob Silverman, Booz Allen Hamilton SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Rob Silverman, Booz Allen Hamilton SVP

    Rob Silverman is a senior vice president of the commercial and civil services unit of management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. The 14-year veteran Silverman has provided analytics, operations research and program management expertise for the company since he started his role in April 2002. Silverman has held other roles under different companies such as Logistics […] More

  • Johns Hopkins University, Tanner, Moog Receive AF Rocket Engine Research Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins University, Tanner, Moog Receive AF Rocket Engine Research Contracts

    Johns Hopkins University, Tanner Research and Moog have received research contracts from the U.S. Air Force to study potential engines intended to power United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket, Space News reported Tuesday. Mike Gruss writes the move is part of a larger plan to replace the Russian-built RD-180 engine with a U.S.-made rocket engine […] More

  • DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Phase 1 contracts to 13 organizations from industry and academia to help develop automated translation technology for DARPA’s Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents program. DARPA said Thursday LORELEI aims to utilize public information sources in local languages to support quick-response operations such as disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and infectious disease response […] More

  • Johns Hopkins University APL Unveils Location-Specific Emergency Alert Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins University APL Unveils Location-Specific Emergency Alert Tech

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has conceptualized a new smartphone-based emergency alert technology that works to provide location-specific notifications to users. The lab said Wednesday the Arbitrary-Size Location-Aware Targeting concept utilizes geolocation technologies to boost the alerts’ accuracy of delivery. “ASLAT uses the location awareness of wireless devices — their internal knowledge of where they are […] More

  • Johns Hopkins University Receives NSF Grant to Train Students on Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins University Receives NSF Grant to Train Students on Cybersecurity

    The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Johns Hopkins University a five-year, $2.2 million grant to educate graduate students about methods to identify and guard information technology systems against cyber threats. JHU’s Information Security Institute will use the money for cybersecurity training of up to four students every year through the university’s master of science […] More