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  • DCS-Millenium JV Nabs Task Orders to Support Army Night Vision Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCS-Millenium JV Nabs Task Orders to Support Army Night Vision Work

    A joint venture of DCS and Millenium has secured three task orders worth $21 million combined to support U.S. Army sensors and night vision work as part of the Warrior Enabling Broad Sensors contract. DCS said Monday the DMJV venture will offer support to the Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate and Army Project […] More

  • BlackStratus: US Govt Agencies Should Utilize Security Info Event Mgmt Tech for Election-Related Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackStratus: US Govt Agencies Should Utilize Security Info Event Mgmt Tech for Election-Related Data

    BlackStratus has recommended U.S. government agencies deploy security information event management technology to address potential cyber attacks on agencies that send, receive and store election-related data. The company said Thursday its SIEM technology was designed to support security administrators on tasks to identify when potential cyber attacks have commenced and report suspicious and irregular activities that occur […] More

  • Tetra Tech Lands USAID Middle East Local Govt Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech Lands USAID Middle East Local Govt Support Contract

    Tetra Tech has received a five-year, $47 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development for assistance in USAID’s efforts to boost legal and policy frameworks that govern municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza. The company said Monday the single-award Communities Thrive contract will cover support for local government work that includes water meter updates, analysis […] More

  • DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Assigns F-35 Component MRO, Upgrade Workloads to Partner Nations

    The Defense Department has granted regional F-35 maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade capacity to partner nations that will support 65 out of 774 repairables outside the continental U.S. Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, said Monday the U.K. will oversee 48 of the 65 F-35 components while Netherlands will handle 14 and Australia will manage three of the components for global […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity

    The U.S. Air Force looks to develop new approaches to information fusion and analysis as well as new techniques to provide intelligence to decisionmakers using service-oriented architecture, open standards and analytical algorithms. A broad agency announcement published Wednesday on FedBizOpps calls for analytic services that can help the military branch understand data sources such as multi-intelligence and source fusion. The service branch also […] More

  • Intel Introduces New Drone Tech for Light Shows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Introduces New Drone Tech for Light Shows

    Intel has unveiled a new unmanned aerial system designed to perform specifically for light shows in a push to redefine entertainment and create new experiences under the night sky. Anil Nanduri, Intel vice president and general manager of unmanned aviation systems for the Perceptual Computing Group, wrote in a blog post published Friday 500 Shooting Star […] More

  • Raytheon's Dave Wajsgras: Presidential Candidates' Cyber Stances Impact 'Millennial' Vote - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Dave Wajsgras: Presidential Candidates’ Cyber Stances Impact ‘Millennial’ Vote

    A joint Raytheon-National Cyber Security Alliance survey has discovered a presidential candidate’s stance on cybersecurity directly impacts the “millennial vote” across those aged 18-26 years old, Raytheon’s Dave Wajsgras wrote in a Federal Times article published Friday. That survey conducted in October said millennials aged 18-26 have increased their interest in the cybersecurity field during a time that has seen […] More

  • Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Deploy Simulation Platform at Maryland Cybersecurity Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Deploy Simulation Platform at Maryland Cybersecurity Training Center

    Cyberbit, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, has secured a contract to deliver a training and simulation platform to a Baltimore, Maryland-based cybersecurity training center for information technology and supervisory control and data acquisition security professionals. Elbit Systems said Sunday the Cyber Security Training Range of Maryland will use Cyberbit’s Range technology to train cybersecurity professionals on how to protect […] More

  • SPAWAR Plans Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing System Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPAWAR Plans Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing System Purchase

    The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific intends to purchase 12 Curtiss-Wright-built modules along with related embedded computing equipment to aid the center’s C4ISR research efforts, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes SSC Pacific wants to order XMC-120 Switched Mezzanine Card modules that are designed to support space-constrained size, weight and power-sensitive applications. XMC-120 is […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Booz Allen's Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds Booz Allen’s Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace

    Microsoft will offer a suite of Booz Allen Hamilton products on the Azure Government Cloud as the companies seek to help agencies protect cloud-based workloads and comply with the Defense Department‘s security requirements. Derek Strausbaugh, a principal program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Friday that Booz Allen’s Virtual Cloud Defense portfolio is designed to support the development […] More

  • Woolpert-RS&H JV Chosen for Army Engineers Design Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert-RS&H JV Chosen for Army Engineers Design Support IDIQ

    A Woolpert and RS&H joint venture has received a five-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Louisville district to provide design support services for a nationwide U.S. Air Force Reserve Command construction program. Woolpert said Friday the contract covers work such as administration, education, assembly, storage, special training and other support spaces along with design […] More

  • OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt

    OGSystems has teamed up with Prescient to integrate the latter’s intelligence products and threat alerting services into the former’s BlueGlass location-based intelligence platform. BlueGlass is designed to help users obtain insights in real time through situational awareness, anomaly alerts and incident reports that might pose a threat to user operations, OGSystems said Thursday. The platform comprises remote sensing, big data and […] More