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    NASA to Move SLS Mobile Launcher to Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B

    NASA plans to move on Thursday, Aug. 30, the mobile launcher for the Space Launch System to a launch pad at the Florida-based Kennedy Space Center using a diesel-powered crawler transporter, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. The agency will then transfer the mobile launch platform to the vehicle assembly building at KSC by Sept. 8 to […] More

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    NSF Solicits Proposals for Program to Establish Quantum Material Foundries

    The National Science Foundation has asked colleges to submit proposals for a program that seeks to develop foundries to facilitate the prototyping and development of quantum devices and materials. NSF said it plans to award between $20M to $25M in funds to up to five recipients through cooperative agreements to perform work under the Enabling […] More

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    CDC to Use HP Printing Tech in Antibiotics Test Program

    HP Inc. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up on a pilot program that seeks to speed up testing of new drugs against antimicrobial resistant bacteria through the use of an inkjet printing system. CDC has purchased HP D300e Digital Dispenser BioPrinters for deployment to four regional laboratories in Minnesota, New […] More

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    AWS Aims to Help Public Sector Create Predictive Maintenance Tools With Managed Offerings

    Amazon Web Services has several service offerings designed to help public sector institutions develop predictive maintenance analytics platforms that work to detect potential equipment failure and facilitate scheduling of maintenance activities. Some of the company’s managed offerings include the AWS IoT Core, AWS Greengrass, AWS IoT Analytics and Amazon SageMaker, AWS said Friday. Amazon SageMaker […] More

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    DoD Seeks Industry Questions About Revised JEDI Cloud RFP

    The Defense Department has launched a second round of comment period for industry to submit questions about DoD’s revised request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Friday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says cloud service providers should send their questions about the amended JEDI cloud RFP through Tuesday, […] More

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    Report: Aerospace, Defense Firms to Benefit From Rising Military Space Spending

    Some aerospace and defense contractors have initiated efforts to build new communications satellites and hypersonic missiles to leverage the rising military spending on space projects to counter threats posed by Russia and China to U.S. space assets, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Those companies also intend to capitalize on the White House’s plan to […] More

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    Army Unveils Three Armored Vehicle Protection System Dev’t Programs

    The U.S. Army plans to deploy by 2022 three new protection systems for its combat vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Those systems are the advanced reactive armor tiles that work to neutralize warheads; a signature management platform designed to protect an armored vehicle from detection by reducing the vehicle’s noise, radar and heat signature; and […] More

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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Obtains First ‘Bennu’ Asteroid Images

    A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA captured the first images of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from a 1.4M mile-distance nearly two years after the space vehicle launched aboard United Launch Vehicle’s Atlas V rocket. NASA said Saturday it expects the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft to arrive at […] More

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    AWS Launches Cloud Evaluation, Training Program for Public Sector Partners

    Amazon Web Services has introduced a 110-day training program that aims to help public sector partners further develop their skills as they work to support government, nonprofit and education clients in their cloud migration efforts. AWS said Thursday the Public Sector Partner Transformation Program is a two-phase initiative that seeks to help participants assess their cloud […] More

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    SAIC Enters Data Center Lease Agreement With CyrusOne; Bob Fecteau Quoted

    Science Applications International Corp. has signed a multiyear lease deal with CyrusOne to move one of its data centers to the latter’s data center location in Northern Virginia by the first six months of 2019. “During the past seven years, CyrusOne and SAIC have developed a strong relationship that will continue to grow with our new […] More

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    Fulcrum Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List; Jeff Handy Quoted

    Fulcrum has been included in Inc. magazine’s 2018 list of 5K “fastest-growing” U.S. companies for nine consecutive years. “We have developed and followed a strong growth strategy that has allowed us to make the Inc. 5000 list again,” Fulcrum CEO Jeff Handy said in a statement published Thursday. Handy added the company’s continued growth in the federal contracting […] More