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  • DOE, Nvidia to Collaborate on Open-Source HPC Compiler Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, Nvidia to Collaborate on Open-Source HPC Compiler Development

    Nvidia has partnered with three U.S. Energy Department-funded national laboratories and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build an open source compiler technology for high-performance computing systems. Nvidia’s PGI software business, NNSA and the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will collaborate on the development of a Fortran-based architecture that the alliance intends to integrate […] More

  • Xerox PARC to Build Micro-PV Cell Printer for DOE's ARPA-E - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox PARC to Build Micro-PV Cell Printer for DOE’s ARPA-E

    PARC, a Xerox company, will develop a prototype micro-photovoltaic cell printer for the Energy Department as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy‘s Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration program. Xerox said Wednesday the program aims to facilitate the high-volume, economical production of micro-PV cell arrays. The company added that PARC will utilize digital xerographic assembly to build a printer that […] More

  • Sandia National Labs Explores Eye-Tracking Tech to Study Visual Cognition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia National Labs Explores Eye-Tracking Tech to Study Visual Cognition

    Sandia National Laboratories has teamed with San Diego-based small business EyeTracking on a cooperative research and development agreement to build tools that improve the interaction between intelligence analysts and visual information. Sandia said Thursday the partnership aims to develop technology that helps drive effectiveness and efficiency in analyzing images and extracting insights from large, diverse and […] More

  • Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech

    The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

  • Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will provide support to Sandia National Laboratories on the development and testing of technologies for military applications under a $10 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Tuesday it will work on formal software and system testing, custom software development, documentation and testing for classified programs at Sandia. Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, noted that […] More

  • Lockheed-Backed Lab, Armed Response Jointly Develop Outdoor Security System; Dave Furgal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Backed Lab, Armed Response Jointly Develop Outdoor Security System; Dave Furgal Comments

    A laboratory run by Lockheed Martin’s Sandia subsidiary and Armed Response Team have collaborated to develop an outdoor security system. Sandia National Laboratories said May 19 it has configured and tested the security system through the state-funded New Mexico Small Business Assistance program, run by the New Mexico legislature in an effort to offer lab support to […] More

  • Northrop Completes Qualification Tests on 1 Mbit Memory Device for Space Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Completes Qualification Tests on 1 Mbit Memory Device for Space Missions

    Northrop Grumman has performed qualification tests on its radiation-hardened W28C0108 electrically erasable programmable read-only memory device that is used in space to store mission data. The company said Monday the EEPROM semiconductor device has 1-megabit memory, operates across the military temperature range and features latch-up immunity functions for space operations. Qualification tests included heavy ion latch-up tests and dynamic life […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Sandia National Laboratories Design Cloud Infrastructure

    General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a three-year, $1.3 million task order to develop cloud infrastructure for the federally funded Sandia National Laboratories. General Dynamics Information Technology will design the business framework, processes, service models, technical architecture and implementation plans to guide Sandia’s staff in deploying the information technology model, General Dynamics said Tuesday. […] More

  • Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain's Genome - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain’s Genome

    A team of scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories has sequenced the genome of an antibiotic-resistant pathogen strain to understand how its resistance operates and spreads to other bacteria. Patti Koning writes in a piece published Aug. 22 that Sandia’s Zach Bent, Corey Hudson, Robert Meagher and Kelly Williams studied the composition of the Klebsiella pneumoniae strain and encoded the New […] More

  • John Borghese: Rockwell Collins-Sandia Labs Team to Help DARPA Build Miniature Comms Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Borghese: Rockwell Collins-Sandia Labs Team to Help DARPA Build Miniature Comms Tech

    Rockwell Collins and Sandia National Laboratories’ alliance will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to integrate nanoscale architectures into military communication systems. The company said Tuesday the goal of DARPA’s Mesodynamic Architectures program is to develop a mesoscale method for building smaller technology for communication, electronic warfare and networking applications. “Once this is […] More

  • Sandia Labs Seeks Partners to Develop Ephemeral Biometrics for Cyber ID Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia Labs Seeks Partners to Develop Ephemeral Biometrics for Cyber ID Mgmt

    A laboratory run by Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia subsidiary is seeking partners for research and development into ephemeral biometrics for cyber identity management and insider threat monitoring functions. Sandia National Laboratories is looking to boost cyber identity authentication and develop new tools to address insider threats through cooperative research and development agreements or work for others agreements, the lab said […] More