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  • Hughes' Jeff Lessner: Commercial Tech Could Help DOD Achieve Military Satcom Resiliency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes’ Jeff Lessner: Commercial Tech Could Help DOD Achieve Military Satcom Resiliency

    Jeff Lessner, vice president of defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes Network Systems, said discussions at the recent Satellite 2022 conference highlighted the need for commercial technologies that can improve and deliver resiliency and security within the Department of Defense’s communications system. Lessner wrote in a blog post published Tuesday on Military Embedded Systems […] More

  • HPE, Oak Ridge National Lab Unveil Exascale Supercomputer 'Frontier' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE, Oak Ridge National Lab Unveil Exascale Supercomputer ‘Frontier’

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched the world’s first exascale supercomputer designed to accelerate discoveries in areas such as disease diagnosis and prognosis, new materials, drug discovery and renewable energy. The HPE-built Frontier supercomputer reached a performance of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer based […] More

  • General Atomics Gets Navy Submarine Propulsor Bearing Design Manufacturing Assessment Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Gets Navy Submarine Propulsor Bearing Design Manufacturing Assessment Task Order

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business will perform a manufacturing assessment of submarine propulsor bearing designs under a U.S. Navy task order. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division awarded the task order to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems under the Propulsor Demonstration Hardware indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the company said Friday. “Manufacturing feasibility evaluations such as this are […] More

  • Siemens' Government Arm Books Army Energy Conservation Task Order; John Ustica Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens’ Government Arm Books Army Energy Conservation Task Order; John Ustica Quoted

    Siemens’ U.S. federal government subsidiary will upgrade heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and make lighting improvements under a task order that supports energy efficiency and resiliency work at a U.S. Army rotary wing and repair facility in Texas. Siemens Government Technologies said Thursday the potential $17.1 million task order with the Army Corps of […] More

  • GDIT Awarded DEOS Cloud Support Task Order; Leigh Palmer Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GDIT Awarded DEOS Cloud Support Task Order; Leigh Palmer Quoted

    General Dynamics’ information technology business will provide cloud and on-premises support services for a suite of Microsoft Office 365 products to support the U.S. Marine Corps in contested battlefield networks under a task order awarded through the Defense Enterprise Office Solution blanket purchase agreement. General Dynamics Information Technology said Thursday it will also team up […] More

  • Boeing’s Starliner Completes Uncrewed Orbital Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Starliner Completes Uncrewed Orbital Flight Test

    The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth Wednesday by landing at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, marking the completion of the vehicle’s unmanned Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA. “With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Cross-Lingual Data Retrieval Tech for Intell Analysts Under IARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Cross-Lingual Data Retrieval Tech for Intell Analysts Under IARPA Program

    A Raytheon Technologies business will develop an end-to-end system designed to help intelligence community analysts extract mission-relevant semantic data under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Better Extraction from Text Toward Enhanced Retrieval program. The Cross-Lingual Extraction for Versatile and Effective Retrieval system to be developed by Raytheon Intelligence & Space could enable English-only speakers […] More

  • GSA Seeks Feedback on Draft Performance Work Statement for Ascend Cloud Services BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Feedback on Draft Performance Work Statement for Ascend Cloud Services BPA

    The General Services Administration is soliciting questions, recommendations and comments on a draft performance work statement for the Ascend blanket purchase agreement that seeks to meet the common cloud requirements of defense and federal civilian agencies. GSA plans to award the Ascend BPA through a phased approach as part of the agency’s Cloud Marketplace vision, […] More

  • Clint Crosier: AWS, AlchemistX Pick 10 Space Startups for 2022 Accelerator Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Clint Crosier: AWS, AlchemistX Pick 10 Space Startups for 2022 Accelerator Program

    Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, said AWS and AlchemistX selected 10 startups for a four-week program meant to provide mentoring, technical and business development support to help such companies further develop their space technology platforms. The AWS Space Accelerator, which started the application process in March, will kick […] More

  • Deltek Study: Finding Top Talent is Main Challenge for GovCon Industry's IT Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Study: Finding Top Talent is Main Challenge for GovCon Industry’s IT Operations

    An annual Deltek study has found that government contractors consider finding top talent as the primary challenge for their information technology departments over the next 12 months, followed by compliance with government requirements and implementation of new software systems. Deltek surveyed 654 contractor personnel working in defense, IT, professional services, energy, engineering, research, transportation and […] More

  • Spire Global Secures Weather Forecast Subcontract From TCOM; Chuck Cash Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire Global Secures Weather Forecast Subcontract From TCOM; Chuck Cash Quoted

    Spire Global will provide weather forecasts at 10 aerostat sites under a potential five-year subcontract with TCOM. The numerical weather prediction subcontract includes notification alerts for TCOM aerostat site operators, weather training for site managers and a contact center providing weather information, Spire said Monday. Spire operates a constellation of over 100 satellites offering weather […] More

  • Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft Reaches International Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Reaches International Space Station

    The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed its docking to the International Space Station Friday as part of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission under a partnership with NASA. The reusable spacecraft reached the ISS a day after it launched atop a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, Boeing […] More