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  • NIST Report Highlights Tech Advancements in Facial Recognition Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Report Highlights Tech Advancements in Facial Recognition Market

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report that points to rapid advancements in the U.S. marketplace for facial recognition software platforms. NIST said Friday it evaluated 127 software algorithms from 39 different developers and found that face-based biometric matching algorithms showed 20 times better searching performance over the past four years. Current software products […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab Seeks Contractor for Distributive Sensing R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab Seeks Contractor for Distributive Sensing R&D Project

    The Air Force Research Laboratory seeks a contractor to support research and development of cyber and electronic warfare technologies for integration with assets for cyber-kinetic combat effects and multidomain operations. AFRL’s sensors directorate aims to understand sensing effects across air, space, cyber and ground domains as well as internet of things and distributed sensing to […] More

  • Firms Eye Virtual, Augmented Reality Training Opportunities in Defense Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Firms Eye Virtual, Augmented Reality Training Opportunities in Defense Sector

    Some executives at Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Textron have said the U.S. military’s ongoing efforts to modernize warfighter readiness have increased opportunities for industry to offer virtual and augmented reality training systems, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Corey Hendricks, chief engineer of global training solutions at Raytheon, noted the company integrated VR and AR tools with mobile platforms […] More

  • Christian Brose to Join Anduril as Strategy Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Christian Brose to Join Anduril as Strategy Head

    Christian Brose, former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, will join Silicon Valley-based tech firm Anduril Industries as the company’s head of strategy, Defense News reported Thursday. Brose left the Senate in September after he served for four years as staff head of the Senate panel led by the late Sen. John McCain. […] More

  • Raytheon Technologies Among Greatest Innovations of 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Technologies Among Greatest Innovations of 2018

    Two of Raytheon’s new drone technologies have landed spots on Popular Science’s list of 100 greatest innovations of 2018. The publication selected the company’s Skyler radar and a laser dune buggy system for the annual Best of What’s New list, recognizing the technologies’ potential to provide new functions for unmanned vehicles, Raytheon said Wednesday. Skyler is […] More

  • Mitre Plans San Antonio, Texas, Office Relocation; Bobby Blount Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Plans San Antonio, Texas, Office Relocation; Bobby Blount Quoted

    Mitre will relocate its current office in San Antonio, Texas, to the Northwest Side after four decades of conducting business near a joint military installation, San Antonio Business Journal reported Wednesday. The report said nearly 70 of the nonprofit company’s employees will move to a facility at Corporate Square by early 2019. Bobby Blount, department […] More

  • AWS Cloud Tech Aids Public Sector Orgs in Decision-Making Process; Teresa Carlson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Cloud Tech Aids Public Sector Orgs in Decision-Making Process; Teresa Carlson Quoted

    The FBI, World Bank and U.K.’s Home Office have used Amazon Web Services‘ cloud technology in efforts to make data-based decisions in real time, YourStory reported Wednesday. “We listened to our customers in the government to ramp up disaster recovery and reduce cost of completion while launching new applications,” said Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS’ worldwide […] More

  • BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted

    BayFirst Solutions has received a task order to provide risk analysis and data management services to the Transportation Security Administration. The company said Wednesday it will help TSA manage and maintain the Risk IT System that supports the agency’s risk-based operation and policy development functions, as well as collect information on threats and vulnerabilities. BayFirst CEO Kevin […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tech Helps Power NASA Mars Lander; Eileen Drake Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tech Helps Power NASA Mars Lander; Eileen Drake Quoted

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has built the propulsion devices that powered a NASA spacecraft during a journey to Mars as part of a mission to study the planet’s seismology, rotation and internal temperature. InSight, which landed Monday on the Martian surface, used MR-107N 50 engines, an RL10C-1 main engine, MR-106 reaction control thrusters and MR-111C thrusters in its nearly six-month trip […] More

  • DLT Becomes AWS Public Sector Distribution Partner; Brian Strosser Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Becomes AWS Public Sector Distribution Partner; Brian Strosser Quoted

    Amazon Web Services has designated DLT Solutions as a public sector distribution partner to help government technology vendors transform business operations with cloud computing platforms. DLT said Tuesday it will support partners through the Cloud Navigator program that includes marketplace, sales and marketing, account management, cost optimization and billing support services. Brian Strosser, president of DLT, said the company has leveraged […] More

  • BAE to Help DARPA Build Machine Learning Tools for RF Signal Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help DARPA Build Machine Learning Tools for RF Signal Detection

    BAE Systems has received a $9.2M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop data-based machine learning algorithms for military and commercial users to identify radio frequency signals in different operating environments. The company said Tuesday it will use cognitive approaches to create signals differentiation tools under the first phase of DARPA’s Radio Frequency Machine Learning System […] More

  • VA, GE Form 3D Medical Printing Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, GE Form 3D Medical Printing Tech Partnership

    A General Electric business unit and the Department of Veterans Affairs have partnered to test software designed to accelerate the process to create 3D-printed models and prosthetics from hours to minutes for medical use. GE Healthcare aims to help VA manage the delivery of health care services to the department’s nine million patients and expand the […] More