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  • DLH Adds Finance Vet James Allen to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLH Adds Finance Vet James Allen to Board of Directors

    DLH Holdings has appointed James Allen, an aerospace and defense industry veteran with more than 40 years of financial management experience, to the company’s board of directors. DLH said Tuesday he previously held the roles of executive vice president and chief financial officer at Sotera Defense Solutions, then known as Global Defense Technology & Systems. “[Allen] brings a wealth […] More

  • Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 'Data Science Bowl' Contest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 ‘Data Science Bowl’ Contest

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted  algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More

  • RSA Security Inks Cyber Threat Data Sharing Agreement With NATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Security Inks Cyber Threat Data Sharing Agreement With NATO

    Dell Technologies’ RSA Security business and the NATO Communications and Information Agency have agreed to exchange cyber threat data in an effort to build up situational awareness and safeguard networks from vulnerabilities. RSA signed Tuesday the industry partnership agreement with NCI during the NITEC17 conference in Ottawa, Canada, the agency said Tuesday. “RSA is thrilled to be […] More

  • Kaggle-Booz Allen 'Data Science Bowl' to Include AI Integration Challenge for Lung Cancer Screening Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaggle-Booz Allen ‘Data Science Bowl’ to Include AI Integration Challenge for Lung Cancer Screening Tech

    Kaggle and Booz Allen Hamilton will convene medical communities and data scientists for a challenge to use artificial intelligence in efforts to further develop lung cancer screening technology. The companies said Thursday the 90-day Data Science Bowl competition will look to boost current technologies for the early detection of lung cancer and potentially reduce lung cancer […] More

  • NCI Lands DHS Agile IT Development Support Task Order; Suzanne Liscouski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Lands DHS Agile IT Development Support Task Order; Suzanne Liscouski Comments

    NCI has received a $43 million task order to support the electronic and customer-focused architecture of the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services through agile information technology development efforts. The company said Tuesday its development and operations teams will work with other companies and federal employees to help USCIS implement agile and lean processes such as Scrum under the […] More

  • Southern Research Wins Spot on NCI Cancer Drug Dev't IDIQ; Art Tipton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Southern Research Wins Spot on NCI Cancer Drug Dev’t IDIQ; Art Tipton Comments

    Birmingham, Alabama-based nonprofit institution Southern Research has won a position on a potential five-year contract to help the National Cancer Institute study the pharmacokinetic attributes of antitumor agents. Southern Research said Monday it will compete for task orders with four other contractors that won spots on NCI’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. “Southern Research has worked closely with […] More

  • NCI Awarded Army Intelligence & Security Command System Support Task Order; Paul Dillahay Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Awarded Army Intelligence & Security Command System Support Task Order; Paul Dillahay Comments

    NCI has received an 18-month, $10 million task order from the U.S. Army to perform engineering and integration support services on the military branch’s intelligence and security command systems. The company will work to develop, install and test the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence and information technology systems of the Fort Meade, Maryland-based command, NCI said […] More

  • Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands 5-Year NCI Clinical Data Mgmt Extension; Carl D’Alessandro Comments

    Harris has received a potential five-year, $43 million contract to continue to help the National Cancer Institute‘s cancer research center manage data under NCI’s intramural clinical trials program. The company said Monday it will perform clinical data management, quality assurance and control, clinical audit, research databases and systems update and clinical trials safety and compliance monitoring services for the institute. […] More

  • CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Unveils New HPC Service Model to Bolster Info Processing Speeds

    CSRA will integrate information technology systems with high-performance computing services to help government agencies process information at a faster pace in a push to support decision-making speeds in areas such as climate change, scientific research and space exploration. The company said Wednesday the new HPC service model will work to support HPC customer requirements within a common […] More

  • NCI to Engineer US Army C4I, IT Systems in South Korea Under $63M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI to Engineer US Army C4I, IT Systems in South Korea Under $63M Task Order

    NCI has received a potential five-year, $63 million task order for engineering and integration support services at the U.S. Army Garrison–Humphreys in South Korea. The task order was awarded by the Army’s Information Systems Engineering Command through the Total Engineering and Information Systems III contract vehicle and contains one base year plus up to four option years, NCI said Wednesday. […] More

  • ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATCC Lands NCI Contract to Build Cancer Models Distribution Infrastructure

    ATCC has been awarded a contract by the National Cancer Institute to develop a technology infrastructure to support the production, intake and distribution of cancer cell lines for the international research community. The company said Wednesday it will build the infrastructure for the Human Cancer Models Initiative that aims to generate as many as 1,000 new cancer cell models. HCMI is a […] More

  • Leidos Subcontracts ATCC for NCI Biospecimen Repository Operations Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subcontracts ATCC for NCI Biospecimen Repository Operations Support

    ATCC has received a potential seven-year, $32 million subcontract from a Leidos subsidiary to manage a National Cancer Institute biospecimen repository in Frederick, Maryland. ATCC said Tuesday its team will store and distribute biospecimens to basic and clinical investigators who support cancer and infectious disease research efforts as well as manage operational costs and logistics at NCI’s Frederick Central Repository. The […] More