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  • DHS Seeks Industry Info on Updated Cyber Research Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Industry Info on Updated Cyber Research Infrastructure

    The Department of Homeland Security has posted a request for information in search for a new infrastructure for efforts to help meet future cyber research and experimentation requirements. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the RFI is based on a 2015 National Science Foundation-funded report that called for new research infrastructure that could help develop and deploy future cybersecurity technologies. DHS is interested in […] More

  • SBA Issues Funding Awards to 68 Business Accelerators; Maria Contreras-Sweet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA Issues Funding Awards to 68 Business Accelerators; Maria Contreras-Sweet Comments

    The Small Business Administration has awarded 68 business accelerators with a $50,000 grant each as winners of SBA’s third annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. SBA said Thursday that a panel of government and industry professionals chose the winning accelerators out of more than 400 grant applicants from across the U.S. The agency facilitated the competition in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, […] More

  • University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    University of Illinois-Led Team Gets $110M NSF Award to Continue Work on XSEDE Project; Irene Qualters Comments

    A team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $110 million award from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a project that aims to provide scientists and engineers access to computing resources. NSF said Tuesday principal investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will collaborate with other researchers from […] More

  • Purdue Gets NSF Grants for Entomology Research; Jennifer Zaspel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue Gets NSF Grants for Entomology Research; Jennifer Zaspel Comments

    Purdue University has received more than $3.6 million in total grants from the National Science Foundation to equip the Department of Entomology’s facilities with new drawers and expand its specimen database. Purdue will also use the funds to provide researchers access to collections-based data in order to help them trace the history of insect-borne diseases, […] More

  • DHS, DoD & NSF to Hold Cybersecurity Workshop for Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS, DoD & NSF to Hold Cybersecurity Workshop for Small Businesses

    The Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation will hold a cybersecurity-focused workshop for small business awardees of the Small Business Innovation Research program. DHS said Monday the 2016 Government Cyber Security SBIR Workshop will allow active Phase II and III SBIR participants to feature their new research and offerings as well as partner […] More

  • Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site

    Google‘s parent company Alphabet will test an autonomous delivery service at one of six Federal Aviation Administration-approved unmanned aircraft system test sites in the U.S., Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Alan Levin writes the White House said Tuesday that Alphabet’s Project Wing drone delivery demonstration aims to lay the groundwork for the approval of the use of UAS to safely deliver packages. Dave […] More

  • UbiQD Eyes Solar Energy Applications for Quantum Dot Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UbiQD Eyes Solar Energy Applications for Quantum Dot Technology

    The National Science Foundation has awarded UbiQD a 12-month, $225,000 grant to advance research and development on luminescent solar-concentrating glass windows with quantum dot coatings under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program. The Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy originally helped create the solar energy technology, and UbiQD included the technology’s proof-of-concept […] More

  • US Govt Agencies Detail Human Brain-Like Computer Development Vision in White Paper - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Govt Agencies Detail Human Brain-Like Computer Development Vision in White Paper

    Four U.S. government agencies have released a white paper on a collective vision to develop a computer that can operate like the human brain. The white paper published Friday detailed what the agencies view as technical priorities, challenges, opportunities and research and development issues related to the White House-led Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing program. Collaborating agencies for the paper […] More

  • HPE-Built Continuous Security Monitoring Platform Enters Operational Readiness Review Phase; Marilyn Crouther Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE-Built Continuous Security Monitoring Platform Enters Operational Readiness Review Phase; Marilyn Crouther Comments

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has moved forward to the operational readiness review phase of its cybersecurity platform for federal civilian agencies under a Department of Homeland Security-run continuous diagnostics and mitigation program. The company designed its automated CDM platform to help government users identify and categorize information technology security risk by priority, HPE said Tuesday. “HPE is proud to be a trusted partner with DHS […] More

  • Oracle to Support White House's Wireless Networking Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle to Support White House’s Wireless Networking Research Project

    Oracle has joined a public-private research project introduced by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy that seeks to examine the advantages and challenges of wireless networking. The company said Monday it will provide engineering and technology expertise as well as core network control, analytics and network orchestration tools to the Platforms Enabling Advanced Wireless Program. PAWR, led by the National Science Foundation, […] More

  • NSF Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Game-Based STEM, Entrepreneurship Training Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Game-Based STEM, Entrepreneurship Training Module

    Charles River Analytics has produced a game-based module for the National Science Foundation as part of an initiative to help U.S. high school students develop their science, technology, engineering, math and entrepreneurship skills. Charles River Analytics said Thursday the Trains of Thought proof-of-concept integrates educational research, the Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe business simulation video game and a gameplay. The approach is […] More

  • Textron Joins NSF’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Bill Irby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Joins NSF’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Bill Irby Comments

    Textron’s unmanned systems business has joined a National Science Foundation-funded organization that aims to advance research in unmanned aircraft systems. The Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems is under NSF’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Center initiative that works to connect research and development efforts and needs of universities and industry, Textron said Monday. Bill Irby, senior vice president […] More