July 7 Market Close: GovCon Index Down Ahead of June Payrolls Report as Energy Losses Weigh Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index turned downward in late morning trade Thursday then traded in slight negative territory during the afternoon session as investors looked ahead to the June labor report due for release before markets open Friday…

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Serco’s US Arm to Install C4I Infrastructure at Air Force C2 Hub in Nebraska; Dan Allen Comments Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a four-year, $12 million contract to install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence infrastructure for a new U.S. Air Force command and control facility in Omaha, Nebraska…

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HPE Obtains NSA Commercial Service Provider Designation; Orlando Figueredo Comments Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been approved as a National Security Agency integrator for classified commercial services after the company passed NSA program requirements. As an authorized integrator, HPE is permitted to provide commercial products and services for classified environments under NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified program, HPE said June 30…

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Deltek: General Govt Services Solicitations Fell in June, Natural Resources Led Releases Deltek has released its monthly review of general government services that showed a decline in solicitations during June by 15 percent from May. The government contracting research firm said Wednesday 30 percent of the solicitations listed information technology as the primary requirement with the remaining 70 percent for other professional services…

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Eccovia Solutions to Offer Case Mgmt System Through Microsoft Azure Govt Platform Eccovia Solutions plans to offer a case management system to agencies and other enterprise organizations in the health and human services sector through Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing platform…

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NIH Kicks Off Precision Medicine Research Initiative; Francis Collins Comments The National Institutes of Health has awarded $55 million in funds for a collaborative  research effort that aims to help individuals prevent and cure disease through precision medicine. NIH said Wednesday the cohort program under President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative will engage a million volunteers in the U…

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NASA Airborne Study Aims to Monitor Greenhouse Gas Sources; Michael Freilich Comments NASA has started an aerial study to determine the concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere as part of an effort to monitor their origins. The Atmospheric Carbon and Transport–America experiment will use C-130H and King Air B-200 aircraft that carry instruments designed to measure the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, NASA said Thursday…

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Lockheed to Share Space-Based IR Data For Remote Sensing Applications Lockheed Martin plans to open access to data from the company-built Space Based Infrared System in efforts to foster the development of remote sensing tools for military and civilian applications. The company said Wednesday the infrared data will be made available to government, commercial and academic organizations through the U…

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DHS Unveils Federal Assistance Program to Empower Local Communities Against Violent Extremism The Department of Homeland Security will invest $10 million in a federal assistance program that seeks to provide local communities with resources to help counter violent extremism. DHS said Wednesday the Countering Violent Extremism grant program for fiscal 2016 was developed to help empower state, local and tribal governments, nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions to lead initiatives to address terrorist threats…

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Leidos, Ford Partner on Automobile Factory Energy Savings Project; Jim Moos Comments Leidos has signed a $5.7 million contract with Ford Motor Co. to support energy-efficiency initiatives at the car manufacturer’s transmission plant in Livonia, Michigan. The Reston, Virginia-based contractor said Wednesday it will install a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system at the Livonia factory under the energy savings performance contract…

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Air Force Selects Enlisted Airmen to Undergo Global Hawk Training Course The U.S. Air Force has selected 10 enlisted airmen to participate in an October RQ-4 Global Hawk pilot training course as part of an initiative to develop future operating concepts within the service branch’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance enterprise…

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