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Northrop to Open in Facility, Add Jobs in New Mexico; Leticia Ebb Quoted
Northrop Grumman plans to establish a new facility and create additional jobs in Albuquerque, N.M., as part of an aerospace market growth push, Albuquerque Journal reported Wednesday.
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Transcom Posts Cloud and On-Premise IT Support RFI
U.S. Transportation Command has issued a request for information on industry sources of on-premise and government cloud-based information technology services to a software-defined data center.
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ECS, Elastic Forge Open Source Tech Partnership; George Wilson Quoted
ASGN’s ECS business has teamed up with search company Elastic to leverage the latter’s open-source technologies and software-as-a-service offerings to build up the speed and security posture of its big data platforms. ECS said Wednesday it will use Elastic’s technology platform to advance machine learning and build up reporting and monitoring in support of defense, federal civilian and commercial clients.
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Michele Evans: Lockheed Eyes Reduced Purchase Price, Maintenance Cost for F-35 Program
Michele Evans, who assumed the role of executive vice president for Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business area in October 2018, has discussed the company’s efforts to reduce the price of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft and other plans for the fighter jet program, the Dallas Business Journal reported Wednesday. Lockheed plans to lower the price of the F-35A variant to $80M by 2020, according to the report.
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Report: Partial Gov’t Shutdown Freezes Contract Obligations
The ongoing partial shutdown of federal agencies could cost $245M in delayed or lost revenue for contracting firms per day, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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USAF Sources for Information on Architect-Engineer Services
The U.S. Air Force is seeking market information regarding construction services as the branch plans to award potential architect-engineer contracts cumulatively valued at $1B over five years. The sought services will support USAF's multibillion-dollar construction program, which would run over the next several years, the branch said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice.
Microsoft to Include Automated Breach Analysis Tool in Gov’t, Top-End Office Bundles
Microsoft plans to add the Auto-Investigation with Threat Playbooks feature to two of its Office productivity suite bundles: Office 365 Enterprise E5 and, potentially, Office 365 Government GCC.