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  • DHA Taps CNTS to Support DoD Health Surveillance Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA Taps CNTS to Support DoD Health Surveillance Mission

    Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions has secured a $17.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide support services to the armed forces health surveillance branch of the public health division within the Defense Health Agency‘s healthcare operations directorate. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contractor will help DHA conduct health surveillance for DoD and assist in the analysis, interpretation and dissemination of […] 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

  • Boeing, Huckworthy Partner Under DoD Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Huckworthy Partner Under DoD Mentor-Protege Program

    Boeing and Huckworthy have forged a partnership through the Defense Department’s Mentor-Protege Program. Boeing’s commercial satellite services business will mentor Huckworthy on how to further commercialize the latter’s Traveller line of tactical communications and technology platforms to the government sector as well as compete for prime and subcontracts under a three-year agreement, Huckworthy said Monday. […] 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

  • SBA Taps 21 Partners to Support Agency's Small Biz Innovation Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA Taps 21 Partners to Support Agency’s Small Biz Innovation Programs

    The Small Business Administration has awarded $325,000 in grant funds to 21 organizations to assist the agency in efforts to help entrepreneurs get more involved in the government’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs. SBA said Thursday it chose 16 state and local economic development agencies, business development centers, colleges and universities to receive a combined $125,000 under the […] More

  • Summit Consulting to Help SBA Review Federal Credit Subsidy Models; Frieda Chung Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Consulting to Help SBA Review Federal Credit Subsidy Models; Frieda Chung Comments

    Summit Consulting has been awarded a potential five-year contract to examine federal credit subsidy models for the U.S. Small Business Administration in order to help verify the models’ compliance with accounting and industry standards. The company will evaluate SBA model methodology, operations, input and output and documentations against the Federal Credit Reform Act regulations, Summit said Monday. “It […] More

  • SBA's Mark Walsh to Lead Fireside Chat at April CONNECTpreneur Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA’s Mark Walsh to Lead Fireside Chat at April CONNECTpreneur Forum

    Mark Walsh, a top official at the Small Business Administration, will lead a fireside chat session with corporate executives and venture capitalists at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur XVIII Forum April 28 at the Bethesda, Maryland-based Hyatt Regency. Walsh joined SBA in late 2015 as associate administrator of the office of investment and innovation, an agency component responsible for initiatives […] More

  • SAMS’ Staci Redmon Named SBA’s ‘Small Business Person of the Year’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAMS’ Staci Redmon Named SBA’s ‘Small Business Person of the Year’

    Strategy and Management Services President and CEO Staci Redmon has received the Small Business Administration‘s “Small Business Person of the Year” recognition for the northern Virginia area. Redmon, who founded SAMS in 2008, has led the company to reach a four-year compound annual growth rate of 122.29 percent through 2015, SAMS said Thursday. A U.S. Army […] More

  • DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, SBA, CPSC Pick SAS Tools for Big Data Analytics, Management

    SAS has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Department, Small Business Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide technology platforms that will work to help the agencies examine huge amounts of data. The company said Monday agencies are increasingly adopting big data analytics, visualization, text mining and Hadoop technologies to help address their data collection, storage and management […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Mentor Synergy Solutions; Gerald Boyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Mentor Synergy Solutions; Gerald Boyd Comments

    SN3, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, will provide general and technical business insights to Synergy Solutions under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program. SN3 will collaborate with Synergy Solutions to develop new systems and expand capabilities to pursue business opportunities with future government contracts, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. “SN3 welcomes the opportunity to mentor […] More

  • Small Business Administration Asks Industry to Develop Cyber Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Business Administration Asks Industry to Develop Cyber Training Program

    The Small Business Administration has called on vendors to help train small companies on cybersecurity through cyber tools and courses, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes the SBA issued a request for information to solicit proposals from companies that can develop an interactive cybersecurity training as part of the agency’s 8(a) small business development […] More

  • DoD Seeks Proposals for Wearable Antenna Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Seeks Proposals for Wearable Antenna Development Program

    The Defense Department has asked industry to submit proposals for a three-phase contract that aims to research and develop wearable antenna systems for integration with soldiers’ multi-frequency band radios. DoD issued the solicitation for the Multi-Band Body Wearable Antenna initiative as part of the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Innovation Research program, according to a […] More