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  • NCI Lands DHS Agile IT Development Support Task Order; Suzanne Liscouski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Lands DHS Agile IT Development Support Task Order; Suzanne Liscouski Comments

    NCI has received a $43 million task order to support the electronic and customer-focused architecture of the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services through agile information technology development efforts. The company said Tuesday its development and operations teams will work with other companies and federal employees to help USCIS implement agile and lean processes such as Scrum under the […] More

  • AECOM, Colorado Transportation Dept Kick Off Energy-Transfer Highway Segment Development; Andrew Liu, Peter Kozinski Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM, Colorado Transportation Dept Kick Off Energy-Transfer Highway Segment Development; Andrew Liu, Peter Kozinski Comment

    AECOM and Colorado’s State Department of Transportation have teamed up to develop an energy-transfer highway segment that would charge electric-powered trucks through a coil transmission system, TruckingInfo reported Friday. Jack Roberts writes the project will test an electric grid embedded in a highway stretch designed to transmit electricity to electric-powered vehicles through energy coils attached to […] More

  • MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileIron Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Postal Service; Barry Mainz Comments

    MobileIron has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  authority-to-operate designation from the U.S. Postal Service for the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform. The FedRAMP Agency ATO status recognizes that the MobileIron Cloud platform has met security standard requirements in the program’s federal risk management process, the company said Monday. “MobileIron has helped government agencies secure their mobile deployments […] More

  • Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech

    A U.S. intelligence agency has awarded Telos a contract to provide an automated message handling system that is designed to support complex information content, analytics, access controls and workflow. Telos said Tuesday its AMHS works to scan addressing information, message content and attachments to route incoming messages to the recipient and transmit outgoing messages on behalf of the organization. AMHS can also facilitate the exchange […] More

  • Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force

    Stellar Science has won a five-year, $7.03 million contract to develop advanced laser system modeling and simulation units for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday the Air Force received five proposals for the cost-reimbursement contract and obligated $150,000 in fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award. Work will […] More

  • Cornell University Gets USDOT Funds for Transportation Research; Oliver Gao Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cornell University Gets USDOT Funds for Transportation Research; Oliver Gao Comments

    The Transportation Department has awarded Cornell University up to $7 million in funds to lead a research initiative meant to explore technologies that could help reduce potential adverse effects of transportation on public health and the environment, Cornell Chronicle reported Thursday. Tom Fleischman writes Cornell will lead a consortium of universities as part of the Center […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Air Force Nod to Modify GPS Satellite Ground Control System; Mark Stewart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Air Force Nod to Modify GPS Satellite Ground Control System; Mark Stewart Comments

    Lockheed Martin will proceed on work to modify the U.S. Air Force’s existing GPS ground control unit after the military branch approved the company’s upgrade design for the system. The company said Monday it completed a critical design review in November under the Contingency Operations contract and will move forward with software development and systems engineering tasks for […] More

  • CACI to Help Army Develop Payload Modeling, Simulation & Training Systems; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Army Develop Payload Modeling, Simulation & Training Systems; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a $31 million task order to help the U.S. Army develop electro-optical/infrared and signals intelligence payload modeling, simulation and training systems for data collection efforts. The company said Monday it will support technology for the night vision and electronic sensors directorate of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics research, development and engineering […] More

  • Lockheed's Energy Arm to Resell N-Dimension's Cyber Services; Brad Luna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Energy Arm to Resell N-Dimension’s Cyber Services; Brad Luna Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s energy business has agreed to act as a reseller for N-Dimension Solutions’ security monitoring and assessment offerings to utilities, industrial sector enterprises and government agencies. N-Dimension Solutions’ N-Sentinel monitoring and vulnerability assessment services work to scan network traffic and provide threat intelligence and guidance on actions to mitigate the risks, N-Dimension said Monday. […] More

  • GSA Adds Vricon to Pre-Approved Tech Vendor List; Magnus Brege Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Adds Vricon to Pre-Approved Tech Vendor List; Magnus Brege Comments

    The General Services Administration has added Vricon to the agency’s list of pre-approved technology vendors for the federal market through the award of a five-year, Schedule 70 contract to the geospatial product and service provider. GSA aims to help streamline the procurement process for government customers that seek three-dimensional system offerings, Vricon said Friday. McLean, Virginia-based […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Weather-Monitoring Satellite System Monday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Weather-Monitoring Satellite System Monday

    Orbital ATK is scheduled Monday to launch a Pegasus rocket aboard the company’s Stargazer L-1011 airplane to transport a NASA satellite system designed for weather research. NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System will lift off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:24 a.m. Eastern time as part of the space agency’s effort to study tropical cyclones and help meteorologists predict the path of a […] More

  • CyrusOne Begins Construction of New Northern Virginia Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Begins Construction of New Northern Virginia Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments

    CyrusOne has kicked off the construction of a new data center in Northern Virginia during a ground-breaking ceremony at the 40-acre Kincora site the company purchased in early 2016. The future 654,000-square-foot Sterling V data center will have access to the fiber hub in Loudoun County and connect with other CyrusOne facilities across the U.S. through the […] More