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SOCOM to Scout for Commercial Tech Platforms at SOFWERX Event
U.S. Special Operations Command will host an industry event to gather applications intended to address certain technology focus areas. The Collider event will take place this April at the command's SOFWERX facility in Tampa, Fla., USSOCOM said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice.
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Jacobs Decontaminates Area 1 of Michigan-Based Chemical Site Under EPA Effort
Jacobs has removed almost 60K pounds of contaminant chemicals from the Velsicol Superfund Site under an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency for in-situ thermal treatment. The company said Wednesday it heated soil and groundwater on the St. Louis, Mich.-based site's Area 1 to get rid of chlorinated solvents, specialty chemicals, oils and petroleum contaminating the grounds.
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ID Technologies-Geta Partnership Looks to Offer Mission-Focused Techs to DoD
ID Technologies has partnered with rugged laptops and tablets manufacturer Getac to offer the Department of Defense with mission-focused, secure technologies for the military.
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Lockheed, Surface Navy Association Partner for STEM Scholarship Program; Paul Lemmo Quoted
Lockheed Martin and the Surface Navy Association have introduced a potential $50K scholarship program to help students pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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Air Force OKs Relativity Operations at Cape Canaveral Launch Facility
Relativity has secured approval from the U.S. Air Force to conduct launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Collins Aerospace to Help Develop Avionics for NASA Supersonic Aircraft
Lockheed Martin has partnered with United Technologies Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business to produce an avionic system for NASA's future supersonic aircraft platform.
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General Atomics to Update Air Force MQ-9 RPA Configuration
A General Atomics business unit has received a $37M firm-fixed-price contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to include additional features to an aircraft configuration.
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CenturyLink’s David Young on Gov’t Shutdown, EIS Telecom Contract Transition
David Young, senior vice president of strategic government at CenturyLink, has said he believes a delay in agencies’ issuance of solicitations under the $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract for telecommunications services due to the partial government shutdown does not affect the transition goal for the EIS vehicle, FCW reported Thursday. In December, the General Services Administration decided to extend until 2023 existing telecom support contracts, which are set to expire in 2020, to provide agencies enough time to transition to the EIS vehicle.
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Rob Snyder Appointed Capture Senior Director at General Dynamics IT
Rob Snyder, formerly director of capture management at CGI Federal, has joined General Dynamics’ information technology business as senior director of capture, G2Xchange reported Thursday. He will direct initiatives to pursue new IT-related business opportunities in the federal civilian agency market.