DCMA Head Wendy Masiello: Agency Seeks Increased Small Business GovCon Participation The Defense Contract Management Agency is working on ways to help small businesses increase their participation in the government contracting market and gain an education on the sector prior to their entry, DCMA’s director told the Potomac Officers Club Thursday… Read More

Frank Kendall, Deborah Lee James Propose New Business Model for Space Launch Services Acquisition Frank Kendall, defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, has proposed an acquisition strategy for satellite launch services that he believes could help the Defense Department reduce costs and dependence on Russian-built RD-180 rocket engines, DoD News reported Wednesday…

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DC Police Vet Steven Sund Joins Noblis as Business Development Director; Pat Brosey Comments Steven Sund, a former commander for the Washington, D.C. city police department, has been named director of business development for national security and intelligence at Noblis. Sund will hold the title of subject matter expert for NSI-related missions such as intelligence-based emergency response plan development, event security planning, incident command and critical infrastructure protection, Noblis said Wednesday…

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Executive Mosaic Unveils 2016 Wash100 Inductees: GovCon’s Most Influential Voices The year 2015 for government contractors was one that featured major landscape shifts in its composition unlike any other since the post-Cold War drawdown in the 1990s that resulted in consolidation among the defense market’s largest companies…

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NIST Seeks Public Input on Randomness in Data Encryption; Elaine Barker Comments The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the second draft of a document that aims to help computer security professionals assess whether an entropy source of randomness is capable to protect sensitive information…

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CNAS Report: US Needs ‘Flexible’ Deterrence Strategy Against Potential Attacks on Space Assets A new Center for a New American Security report says the U.S. government needs to establish a “flexible” deterrence strategy in order to avert potential attacks on the U.S. satellite architecture and other space assets…

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Intelsat Launches Boeing-Built Comms Satellite A telecommunications satellite that Boeing built for Intelsat lifted off Wednesday from a French Guiana spaceport aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. Intelsat 29e launched into space at 6:20 p.m. Eastern Time and began to transmit initial signals to a ground station nearly 40 minutes after liftoff, Intelsat said Wednesday…

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