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Reuters | January 21, 2020

The Trump administration is snubbing Congress by refusing to turn over a report detailing an investigation into national security risks potentially posed by imported vehicles and auto parts, citing pending international negotiations and executive branch deliberations. Congress inserted a provision in a spending bill last month demanding the White House turn over the long-secret government report that U.S. President Donald Trump used to declare in May 2019 that some unnamed imported autos pose ri...

ThunderCat Technology | September 08, 2020

ThunderCat Technology, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that delivers technology products and services to the federal government, announced today that it has been named to Washington Technology’s Top 100 list at #63, which is one of the leading indicators measuring the performance of the largest contractors in the government market. This is ThunderCat’s seventh appearance on the list. The companies are ranked by their prime contract dollars in IT, systems inte...

BD | July 31, 2020

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced a $24 million investment from the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the scale up of U.S. manufacturing capabilities for BD Veritor™ Solution for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2. The additional capital equipment will bolster domestic production and increase total production capacity by 50 percent. These investments will ena...

The U.S Department of Energy | July 28, 2020

The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled its plans to develop a parallel national quantum network that is super-fast and unhackable and could be used by sensitive government departments and banks to send information, according to the Department of Energy. The blueprint of the network was revealed in an event at the University of Chicago on Thursday. The department detailed four research areas that need to be given priority for the technology to achieve completion and stated it could be fu...