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  • Report: Boeing Proposes Funding Spirit AeroSystems Reacquisition With Stock - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Proposes Funding Spirit AeroSystems Reacquisition With Stock

    Boeing initially planned to reacquire Spirit AeroSystems in an all-cash transaction but made a last-minute move by proposing to fund its purchase of the aircraft parts manufacturer using mostly company stock, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. According to people familiar with the negotiation, the two parties discussed a deal in which Boeing would acquire […] More

  • NASA, IBM Seek to Enhance Scientific Research With INDUS Large Language Models - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, IBM Seek to Enhance Scientific Research With INDUS Large Language Models

    IBM and NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team have developed a set of large language models designed to improve scientific research by providing researchers with improved access to large volumes of specialized knowledge and enabling them to extract relevant information from diverse data sources. NASA said Tuesday the INDUS suite of LLMs contains encoder […] More

  • GDIT Names Moises DelToro as Navy/Marine Corps CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GDIT Names Moises DelToro as Navy/Marine Corps CTO

    Moises DelToro, a business and technology leader, has joined General Dynamics Information Technology as Navy/Marine Corps chief technology officer. In a LinkedIn post published Monday, DelToro said he looks forward to showcasing GDIT’s portfolio of tailorable digital platforms designed to integrate with government customers’ IT networks. DelToro brings to the role over two decades of […] More

  • ManTech, Marque Ventures Seek to Advance National Security Tech Development via Partnership; Eric Brown Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech, Marque Ventures Seek to Advance National Security Tech Development via Partnership; Eric Brown Quoted

    ManTech and venture capital firm Marque Ventures have partnered to rapidly identify emerging national security capabilities from startups and technology companies to help address mission challenges facing government customers. Eric Brown, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at ManTech, said in a statement published Monday the partnership marks the first engagement of Marque with […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates Digital C2 Platform With 1st Prototype of Joint Fires Network; Erika Marshall Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates Digital C2 Platform With 1st Prototype of Joint Fires Network; Erika Marshall Quoted

    Lockheed Martin integrated its digital command and control system with the first prototype of the Department of Defense’s Joint Fires Network as part of the JFN demonstration during the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Valiant Shield 2024 exercise. The company said Thursday its digital C2 system demonstrated its capability to facilitate live operational planning during the exercise, […] More

  • C3 AI Names Kevin McCarthy to Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    C3 AI Names Kevin McCarthy to Advisory Board

    Kevin McCarthy, former speaker of the House of Representatives, has joined the advisory board of enterprise artificial intelligence software company C3 AI. As an advisory board member, McCarthy will offer strategic counsel to C3 AI’s leadership team to facilitate engagement with the U.S. federal government and allied countries to advance the use of the company’s […] More

  • GE Aerospace, NASA Collaborate on Hybrid Electric Demonstrator Engine Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Aerospace, NASA Collaborate on Hybrid Electric Demonstrator Engine Project

    GE Aerospace and NASA are working on a project that will embed electric generators or motors in a high-bypass turbofan to augment power during different flight phases as part of efforts to develop fuel-efficient aircraft engines with reduced emissions. The company said Wednesday the hybrid electric demonstrator engine project intends to develop a system that […] More

  • DIU, Navy Issue Success Memos to 5 Machine Learning Operations Toolset Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DIU, Navy Issue Success Memos to 5 Machine Learning Operations Toolset Providers

    The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Navy are awarding success memos to five vendors that have developed prototypes and fielded machine learning operations tools designed to modify, track and redeploy ML algorithms on unmanned underwater vehicles used to detect underwater target threats. DIU said Monday that Arize AI, Domino Data Lab, Fiddler AI, Latent […] More

  • Draper Unveils Partnership Platform to Accelerate Defense Technology Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Unveils Partnership Platform to Accelerate Defense Technology Development

    Draper has launched a partnership platform designed to help small businesses and startups collaborate with the government to facilitate rapid prototyping of emerging technology platforms in support of defense and national security missions. DraperSPARX – to be led by C. Colin Supko, director of market intelligence at Draper – will work to bring together industry […] More

  • Creighton Reed Appointed Adarga SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Creighton Reed Appointed Adarga SVP

    Creighton Reed, a business development executive, has joined artificial intelligence analytics tools provider Adarga as senior vice president. In a LinkedIn post published Sunday, Reed said he will co-lead the U.S. operations of London-headquartered Adarga with Chris Gore, most recently president of U.S. risk intelligence firm J2X Solutions. His appointment came days after Adarga acquired […] More

  • CGI Federal Awarded $84M USPTO Blanket Purchase Agreement for Momentum, Financial Management Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal Awarded $84M USPTO Blanket Purchase Agreement for Momentum, Financial Management Support

    CGI Federal has secured a potential $84.3 million blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office within the Department of Commerce to provide Momentum software subscription and financial management professional services. According to an award notice published Friday, the sole-source BPA awarded through the Multiple Award Schedule has an ordering period that will […] More