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  • CACI Receives ISO Certification for Info Security Practices; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives ISO Certification for Info Security Practices; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received certification from the International Organization for Standardization for the company’s information security policies and practices following an external audit on its corporate information technology infrastructure. The ISO 27001 certificate reflects CACI’s compliance with the ISO standard for corporate IT security policies and represents the company’s second enterprise-wide ISO credential since May, CACI said Wednesday. “This […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Provides Lithium-Ion Batteries to ISS; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Provides Lithium-Ion Batteries to ISS; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has provided a payload of six lithium-ion batteries to the International Space Station in an effort to keep the power supply needed to help astronauts continue their research aboard the station. The lithium-ion batteries incorporate safety features such as voltage, temperature and cell-overcharge monitoring and will replace 12 nickel hydrogen batteries at ISS, Aerojet Rocketdyne […] More

  • Engility Lands $31M Air Force Cybersecurity Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Lands $31M Air Force Cybersecurity Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility Holdings has received a five-year, $31 million contract to perform cybersecurity assessment, analysis and research work for the Defense Technical Information Center in support of U.S. Air Force mission requirements. The company said Tuesday it will provide independent verification and validation, site audits, software assurance, prototypes and processes to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s […] More

  • Data Link Solutions to Update F-16 Tactical Comms System for Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Data Link Solutions to Update F-16 Tactical Comms System for Foreign Military Clients

    Data Link Solutions, a joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins, has received a potential $19.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to update tactical communication systems for the F-16 fleet of U.S. foreign military customers. DLS said Monday it will produce Multifunctional Information Distribution System – Low Volume Terminals for the aircraft program’s […] More

  • European Space Agency Taps Thales Alenia Space for ExoMars 2020 Mission Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Taps Thales Alenia Space for ExoMars 2020 Mission Support Contract

    The European Space Agency has partnered with Thales Alenia Space to carry out the final stage of activities for the ExoMars 2020 — a joint mission of ESA and its Russian counterpart to explore life on Mars. Thales Alenia Space will design the ExoMars mission and lead a European industrial consortium under a contract with ESA, Thales said Friday. The ExoMars 2020 spacecraft […] More

  • Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Guided Missiles; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Guided Missiles; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Navy has fired two Raytheon-built guided missiles to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target at sea during a recent test event. Standard Missile-6 Dual I launched from the USS John Paul Jones during the demonstration and destroyed the target in its final seconds of flight, Raytheon said Monday. “This test showcased the flexibility […] More

  • CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Army Passive RFID Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidiary to Provide Army Passive RFID Tech

    CSRA‘s SRA International subsidiary has been awarded a five-year, $25.5 million contract to provide a common, integrated radio frequency identification system to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Monday that the Army will implement passive Radio Frequency Identification III technology to track, locate and identify commodities and assets. SRA is scheduled to complete work by Dec. 18, 2021. The […] More

  • Valytics Awarded ICE Interoperability Testing Support Contract; Edwin Darilek Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Valytics Awarded ICE Interoperability Testing Support Contract; Edwin Darilek Comments

    Valytics has received a three-year contract to develop and update interoperability testing and test automation services for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The company said Wednesday it will help ICE to analyze enterprise configuration procedures, conduct manual interoperability tests and create a test automation framework to execute regression tests on deployed ICE systems. […] More

  • NIKA to Analyze Army Medical Command’s Energy Use, Water Conservation Data; Kabir Chaudhary Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIKA to Analyze Army Medical Command’s Energy Use, Water Conservation Data; Kabir Chaudhary Comments

    NIKA has received a $1.1 million contract to store, analyze and evaluate data related to the U.S. Army Medical Command’s energy consumption and conservation efforts. The company will provide data modeling and analysis reports for Medcom’s energy and water consumption data across more than 30 Army medical facilities, NIKA said Tuesday. NIKA’s team will develop a […] More

  • State Dept OKs AN/SPS-77 Air Search Radar Sale to Philippines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs AN/SPS-77 Air Search Radar Sale to Philippines

    The State Department has approved a potential $25 million foreign military sale of AN/SPS-77 Sea Giraffe three-dimensional air search radars and related equipment to the Philippines. Saab and VSE will serve as the principal contractors for the sale that covers two AN/SPS-77 radars and installation, operator training, system operational testing and documentation support services, the Defense Security […] More

  • BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Invests in Australia Defense Tech R&D Network; Glynn Phillips Comments

    BAE Systems plans invest up to $10 million over 10 years in a collaborative network that will work to facilitate development of technologies that can support the Australian military. BAE said Tuesday its Australian subsidiary partnered with the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia to establish the Joint Open Innovation Network with the goal to introduce university engineering scholarship, internship, job placement, defense-related courses […] More

  • Boeing to Provide Saudi Arabia Full-Mission Trainer, Database Generation System Under $60M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Provide Saudi Arabia Full-Mission Trainer, Database Generation System Under $60M Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a potential $60 million contract to deliver database and aircrew training support systems to Saudi Arabia under a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will supply a database generation system as well as a full-mission trainer and integrated avionics trainer database to Saudi Arabia’s military. The company […] More