DCCA Receives CMS Business Intell Services Contract for Automated Plan Payment System The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded Data Computer Corporation of America a five-year, $13.8 million contract for business intelligence services in support of a CMS plan to update and expand the agency’s automated plan payment system…

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Defense News: India Asks US Govt for 22 General Atomics-Built Predator UAVs India has requested to acquire a batch of General Atomics-built Predator unmanned aerial vehicles through a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Defense News reported Monday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes Indian government sent a letter of request to the U…

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Rear Adm. Charles Richard: Navy, Lockheed Start Torpedo Prototype Development Work Rear Adm. Charles Richard, a U.S. Navy official, has said the service branch has begun development work on a prototype of a new Mk 48 torpedo version designed to target hostile weapons, submarines and ships at a longer range, Scout Warrior reported Monday…

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Avita Medical Receives Added BARDA Funds for Burn Treatment Product Development; Adam Kelliher Comments Avita Medical has received $7.96 million in additional funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to continue efforts to launch a regenerative medicine product and obtain U…

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Huntington Ingalls to Expand Newport News Steel Fabrication Hub; Pete Diakun Comments Newport News Industrial, a Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary, will add 52,000 square feet to its headquarters in Newport News, Virginia to support the heavy steel fabrication work for commercial nuclear power customers…

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Fedscoop: IARPA Solicits Information on DHS’ Biometric Systems Security The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a broad agency announcement that seeks industry feedback on a project that aims to secure the Department of Homeland Security‘s biometric systems against threats, Fedscoop reported Monday…

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OPM Seeks to Streamline Info on Data Breaches Through Website Update; Beth Cobert Comments The Office of Personnel Management has updated its website in an effort to streamline information on the two data breaches in 2015 that compromised data of at least 21 million former and current federal employees, Federal News Radio reported Monday…

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Lockheed Demos Q-53 Radar’s UAS Counter, Tracking Functions Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar’s unmanned aerial systems tracking and identification functions designed to support information relay to a command and control node…

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China’s Rocket for Proposed Space Station Completes Inaugural Flight A China-built rocket designed to transport spacecraft and astronauts to the country’s proposed space station launched Saturday at 8 a.m. Eastern time from a launch pad on Hainan Island in the South China Sea, SpaceFlight Now reported Saturday…

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HHS to Support Brazilian Research Center’s Zika Vaccine Production Effort The Department of Health and Human Services has offered financial and technical assistance to Brazil-based Butantan Institute in an effort to help the biomedical research center produce vaccines against Zika virus…

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