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    Johns Hopkins APL Secures NASA Contract for NOAA’s Lagrange 1 Series Sensors
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    Johns Hopkins APL Secures NASA Contract for NOAA’s Lagrange 1 Series Sensors

    NASA has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory a $20.5 million contract to develop two Suprathermal Ion Sensor instruments for the Lagrange 1 Series project satellites under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Next Program. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Johns Hopkins APL is expected to complete the sensor development work, including performing […] More

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    Tetra Tech Secures $66M EPA START VI Contract
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    Tetra Tech Secures $66M EPA START VI Contract

    The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Tetra Tech a potential $66 million contract to provide technical assistance services to the Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team, or START, assigned to implement EPA’s National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan responsibilities in the agency’s Region 5 division. A notice posted on Thursday on SAM.gov showed […] More

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    NIH to Award $3B Contract to Support NIAID Research
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    NIH to Award $3B Contract to Support NIAID Research

    The National Institutes of Health has confirmed its plan to award a multi-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum portfolio ceiling of $3 billion to provide professional, scientific and technical support services for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID. NIH made the confirmation in a notice posted on Wednesday on SAM.gov in […] More

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    Splunk Observability Cloud Achieves FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Designation
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    Splunk Observability Cloud Achieves FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Designation

    The Program Management Office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted “In Process” designation to Splunk Observability Cloud. In a blog published on Tuesday, Bill Rowan, Splunk’s vice president of public sector and a Wash100 award recipient, said the company achieved the designation as it works to attain FedRAMP Moderate authorization for […] More

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    Duality Technologies Creates Public Sector Advisory Board
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    Duality Technologies Creates Public Sector Advisory Board

    Duality Technologies has formed a public sector advisory board comprising experts who will provide strategic guidance to public sector customers in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, NATO member countries and other allied and partner nations. The advisory board, created to support the expansion of public sector services, will focus on helping government organizations enable data […] More

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    New Partners Join Guidehouse Health Segment
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    New Partners Join Guidehouse Health Segment

    Guidehouse has added Mark Korth and Angela Hunt as partners to its health segment to support the company in helping health care organizations advance their clinical and operational performance. Korth will focus on assisting health care providers in optimizing large-scale mergers and integrations, transformations and operating model implementation, while Hunt will help them improve quality, […] More

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    Gunnison Secures CDC Cybersecurity Support Contract
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    Gunnison Secures CDC Cybersecurity Support Contract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Gunnison Consulting Group a three-year, $14 million contract to provide cybersecurity support for the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Cybersecurity Program Office. Gunnison said Monday it will work with the office to implement a cybersecurity program that fosters a zero trust security culture, enhances IT […] More

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    Federal Data Systems Now Operates as Clear Fracture
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    Federal Data Systems Now Operates as Clear Fracture

    Federal Data Systems, the software-oriented component of FedData Group, has rebranded to Clear Fracture after a new set of investors acquired the company. The change represents an increased commitment to providing customers with data integration capabilities that will allow them to make informed decisions and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, Clear Fracture said Thursday. According […] More

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    Epsilon C5I, 3 Others Win Spots on $90M Navy R&D Contract
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    Epsilon C5I, 3 Others Win Spots on $90M Navy R&D Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Epsilon C5I, KBR Wyle Service, Toyon Research and Booz Allen Hamilton spots on the $89.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multi-award contract to support the development of new intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting, or ISR&T, systems. Under the contract, the companies will deliver research, development, testing and evaluation, technical assistance and systems engineering […] More

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    Taxbit Launches Platform for Tax Reporting, Regulation Compliance
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    Taxbit Launches Platform for Tax Reporting, Regulation Compliance

    Taxbit has introduced a new platform designed to provide enterprises with a simplified way to deal with complex tax reporting for digital products involving high-volume, high-frequency and multi-asset transactions. The platform easily integrates with enterprise systems; fully automates ingestion, calculation and reporting; and comes with a dashboard that offers companies insights and analytics in real […] More

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    SAIC’s Jay Meil Discusses Ways to Scale AI
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    SAIC’s Jay Meil Discusses Ways to Scale AI

    Scaling artificial intelligence involves developing a framework that prioritizes solving the main problem before addressing minor challenges, said Jay Meil, chief data scientist and vice president of artificial intelligence strategy and solutions at Science Applications International Corp., during an interview with Air & Space Forces Magazine on Wednesday. The framework should be built in an […] More

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    Teledyne Secures $168M IDIQ to Upgrade Army’s NBCRV Sensor Suite
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    Teledyne Secures $168M IDIQ to Upgrade Army’s NBCRV Sensor Suite

    The U.S. Army has awarded Teledyne FLIR Defense a five-year, $168.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity low-rate initial production contract to upgrade the sensor suite of the M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle, or NBCRV. Teledyne, the lead integrator in modernizing the Army’s NBCRV system, said Tuesday that the award follows a demonstration of its sensor […] More