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  • NASA Seeks Feedback on Open-Source Sharing of Scientific Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Feedback on Open-Source Sharing of Scientific Data

    NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is asking public and private sector entities for ideas on how to better manage data and computing infrastructure. In a notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov, the directorate said that input from the request for information will support a larger goal to align the agency’s computing systems to Open-source Science policies. The […] More

  • Raytheon Subsidiary Gains DOD Recognition for Semiconductor Material Maturation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Subsidiary Gains DOD Recognition for Semiconductor Material Maturation

    Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business received the 2022 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement award for enhancing its gallium nitride production process. The new version of GaN is covered by the Defense Production Act Title III contract and manufactured at the semiconductor foundry of Raytheon Missiles & Defense in Andover, Massachusetts, the company said Thursday. The […] More

  • C3 AI Appoints UK Royal Marines Vet Gordon Messenger to Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    C3 AI Appoints UK Royal Marines Vet Gordon Messenger to Advisory Board

    Gordon Messenger, a retired U.K. Royal Marines general and former vice chief of the British defense staff, has joined the advisory board of C3 AI. The enterprise artificial intelligence application software company said Thursday Messenger accompanies two-time Wash100 awardee John Hyten and seven other members in providing C3 AI with strategic guidance. His expertise in […] More

  • KBR, KSAT Team Up to Develop Solar Observatory Antenna Network for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR, KSAT Team Up to Develop Solar Observatory Antenna Network for NOAA

    KBR and Norway-based Kongsberg Satellite Services have partnered to develop ground communications infrastructure for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observatory designed to observe solar activity in space.  The two companies aim to create a network of terminals and an associated service the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 mission the agency plans to launch in […] More

  • Guidehouse Makes CTO Dan Hushon, 23 Others Partner; Scott McIntyre Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Guidehouse Makes CTO Dan Hushon, 23 Others Partner; Scott McIntyre Quoted

    Guidehouse named 24 new partners within the firm to help strengthen its consulting services to the public and commercial sectors. The newly appointed professionals are adept at fields including defense and security, energy and sustainability, health and technology, the consulting and managed services provider said Thursday. Guidehouse Chief Technology Officer Dan Hushon and cybersecurity director […] More

  • NTT Data's Nat Bongiovanni Proposes 3 Fundamental Tools for Government Zero Trust Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data’s Nat Bongiovanni Proposes 3 Fundamental Tools for Government Zero Trust Implementation

    Nat Bongiovanni, chief technology officer of NTT Data’s federal services group, suggests that agencies should focus on three basic zero trust architecture capabilities in 2023 to align with the U.S. government’s cybersecurity goals. In a blog post published Thursday, Bongiovanni listed authentication, monitoring and authorization as the primary measures every government organization should prioritize when […] More

  • TechFlow Books GSA Follow-on Contract for Continued Cloud.gov Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechFlow Books GSA Follow-on Contract for Continued Cloud.gov Support

    TechFlow will continue its development and sustainment support for the cloud.gov platform-as-a-service under a follow-on contract from the General Services Administration. The single-award contract involves consultation support for cloud.gov as well as the operation, maintenance, monitoring and upgrading of @underlyingcloud.gov, the company said Thursday. Cloud.gov is a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-approved PaaS designed […] More

  • SOCOM Extends Tactical Comms Deal With Viasat Through $325M IDIQ; Craig Miller Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOCOM Extends Tactical Comms Deal With Viasat Through $325M IDIQ; Craig Miller Quoted

    Viasat will continue its delivery of mission equipment and services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a potential $325 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract. The IDIQ builds on a $350 million contract SOCOM awarded to Viasat in 2017 for tactical radio and satellite equipment, the company said Thursday. Under the new agreement, Viasat will […] More

  • Catalyst Accelerator Seeks Program Participants to Streamline USAF Digital Model Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catalyst Accelerator Seeks Program Participants to Streamline USAF Digital Model Processing

    A three-month startup accelerator program will be launched by Catalyst Accelerator in an effort to boost the efficiency of the U.S. Air Force’s digital model processing. Catalyst Accelerator’s operations in Ogden, Utah, is inviting applications from small businesses that can present technologies capable of streamlining the service branch’s Unified Certification Strategy, the accelerator said Tuesday. […] More

  • Defense Innovation Unit Seeks Energy-Efficient Heaters for DOD Buildings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Innovation Unit Seeks Energy-Efficient Heaters for DOD Buildings

    The Defense Innovation Unit issued a commercial solutions opening for technologies that can reduce the carbon footprint of space and water heating systems in the Department of Defense’s buildings. DIU said it is looking to prototype cost-effective innovations that can improve on air-source heat pumps and HP water heaters and are usable in workspaces, barracks […] More

  • Tantus to Provide USDA Agencies With Cybersecurity Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tantus to Provide USDA Agencies With Cybersecurity Services

    The Department of Agriculture selected Tantus Technologies to provide cybersecurity support to the information assurance branch of its Farm Production and Conservation arm. The agency said Thursday the contract covers information technology security compliance support, assessment and authorization documentation analysis for the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Risk Management Agency. It […] More

  • NGA-led Collaboration Yields 4 Additional Years of High-Resolution Arctic Map - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA-led Collaboration Yields 4 Additional Years of High-Resolution Arctic Map

    Four more years of high-resolution imagery has been added to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s ArcticDEM, a digital elevation model mapping the entire Arctic region. NGA said Wednesday that it collaborated with academic and private sector institutions to gather data, which increases the database by more than 50 percent compared to previous representations. The ArcticDEM provides […] More