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  • Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 ‘Data Science Bowl’ Contest
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    Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 ‘Data Science Bowl’ Contest

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted  algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More

  • L3 Delivers Boeing-Built KC-10 Aircraft to Air Force
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    L3 Delivers Boeing-Built KC-10 Aircraft to Air Force

    L3 Technologies has achieved on-time delivery of the first Boeing-built KC-10 aerial refueling aircraft under L3’s contractor logistics support contract with the U.S. Air Force. New York City-based L3 said Thursday its Vertex Aerospace division received the aircraft in January 2017 and performed heavy maintenance check on the KC-10 within six months, in partnership with subcontractor HAECO/TIMCO. Vertex Aerospace […] More

  • Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service
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    Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide operations and maintenance support for DTRA’s Meteorological Data Servers and Numerical Weather Prediction services. DTRA awarded the contract, which contains one base year and four option years, through its Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction procurement vehicle, Leidos said Thursday. The company will offer targeted research-and-development […] More

  • DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool
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    DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool

    SteelCloud has received a contract from the Energy Department to provide a remediation platform designed to automate compliance of applications and deployed data infrastructure with the Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Thursday ConfigOS works to scan endpoint platforms against STIG controls within a minute and remediate endpoints within 90 seconds. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud president and CEO, […] More

  • AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud
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    AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud

    AT&T has agreed with Oracle to migrate thousands of databases and related applications workloads to the latter’s cloud platforms. Oracle said Thursday the strategic agreement with AT&T covers its portfolio of cloud offerings that include platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and database-as-a-service. AT&T will also integrate its big data and machine learning capabilities with Oracle’s Field Service […] More

  • Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan
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    Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan

    Northrop Grumman‘s military aircraft systems business has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead time materials, components, parts and other services that will support the delivery of an E–2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy will obligate the full amount of the modification from foreign military sales funds […] More

  • Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations
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    Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations

    Harris and Ligado Networks have agreed to collaborate in efforts to develop, test and deploy beyond-visual-line-of-sight technologies for unmanned aircraft systems. Both companies aim to showcase joint technologies and expertise to support the integration of commercial drones into U.S. airspace, Ligado said Thursday. The North Dakota Centers of Excellence Commission awarded Harris a two-year grant earlier this year to create aviation-grade […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force

    Charles River Analytics has won a four-year, $8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop artificial intelligence technology for domain experts to understand why decisions were made. The Air Force received 62 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $1.3 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More

  • Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project
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    Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project

    Parsons has won the Bronze Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts for its work on a bridge replacement project on Martha’s Vineyard island. The company said Thursday it designed a drawbridge to replace the Lagoon Pond bridge, which was built in 1935, under a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Parsons added […] More

  • ManTech’s George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments
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    ManTech’s George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments

    George Pedersen, co-founder, chairman and CEO of ManTech International, has received the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation’s Patriots award in recognition of his commitment to support the CIA’s mission and the country it serves. ManTech said Thursday that John McLaughlin and Jerry Komisar, respectively chairman and president of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, presented the award to Pedersen during a company […] More

  • GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70
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    GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70

    Crunchy Data has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer open-source database enterprise and engineering support and professional services to the federal government. The company said Wednesday that its five-year contract with the GSA includes the PostgreSQL Professional Services and the PostgreSQL Secure Enterprise Support that will provide  government customers access to the Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL  distribution […] More