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    Lockheed Previews Deep Space Habitat Prototype at Kennedy Space Center

    Lockheed Martin has provided an initial look of a 22-foot-long habitat prototype it has built for NASA in support of deep space missions, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday. The company unveiled at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the habitat, which is designed to accommodate up to four astronauts for a month to 60 days […] More

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    Forcepoint’s Eric Trexler: CDM Program Could Help Federal Agencies Build Cyber Needs Into IT Efforts

    Eric Trexler, vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales at Forcepoint, has said the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program launched by the Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration is an initial step in the integration of cybersecurity requirements into federal information technology efforts. Trexler wrote in a LinkedIn article posted […] More

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    Report: USAF-Lockheed Contracts Likely to Boost Hypersonic Dev’t Work in Orlando, Fla.

    Lockheed Martin could hire more employees and collaborate with small businesses in Orlando, Fla., to support hypersonic weapon development work under two U.S. Air Force contracts worth up to $1.4B combined, the Orlando Business Journal reported Friday. Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business secured on Aug. 13 a potential $480M contract to build an air-launched […] More

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    VA Issues Solicitation for Content Management System Dev’t Contract

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated its search for potential contractors that can help VA develop a content management system as part of its efforts to update its veteran-facing website, VA.gov. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the move is part of VA’s digital modernization strategy that seeks to upgrade its digital tools in […] More

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    Army Taps 5 Firms for Big Data Mgmt Dashboard Contracts

    Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More

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    Sehlke Consulting Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List

    Sehlke Consulting has been named to the Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 “fastest-growing” U.S. companies for 2018. The Arlington, Va. based company said Wednesday  it landed the 435th spot in this year’s Inc. 5000 ranking for recording a three-year growth rate of 1,157 percent. Chad Sehlke, founder and CEO of Sehlke Consulting, said receiving the Inc. […] More

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    Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Brings Geospatial Analytics Experience to Agencies Through Partnerships

    Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions and a three-time Wash100 recipient, has said the company partnered with U.S. defense and intelligence companies in the past six months to share its geospatial analytics experience in support of their national security missions. The Maxar Technologies subsidiary collaborated with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency over the Janus Geography program and launch of a new […] More

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    Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System

    The U.S. Army has tested long-range network management features of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. IBCS helped soldiers maintain video, data and voice connectivity through network management, execute and track simulated threats and identify aerial objects as “friend or foe” during the five-week soldier checkout event held with air-and-missile defense […] More

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    Report: Defense Contractors Optimistic on Space Force Proposal

    Some defense companies have expressed optimism on the Trump administration’s plan to establish a new “space force” as they expect the proposed service branch to boost defense spending on space-related work, The Hill reported Wednesday. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us in the industry to see the intense level of interest that this administration and […] More

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    Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: Tech Usage Policies Could Help Protect Corporate IP From Insider Threats

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has said organizations that seek to protect corporate intellectual property from insider threats should “implement a clear set of policies governing technology usage.” Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary posted Tuesday on Fortune that such policies could guide information technology teams as they work to detect malicious access attempts and determine […] More

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    Six Tech Firms Vow to Advance Health Care Interoperability

    Six companies have issued a joint statement at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference to address barriers to the use of technology platforms that work to facilitate health care interoperability. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Amazon have vowed to work together to “unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at […] More

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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Test-Fires Engine for NASA SLS Rocket

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a hot-fire test of an engine technology the company built for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. The company said Tuesday it performed the RS-25 engine test at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and assessed the performance of the main combustion chamber during the 319-second engine fire test attended by NASA Administrator […] More