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  • Air Force Extends InDyne's Cape Canaveral Infrastructure O&M Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Extends InDyne’s Cape Canaveral Infrastructure O&M Services Contract

    InDyne has received a $71.5 contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue the company’s infrastructure operations and maintenance services at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Defense Department said Friday InDyne will continue to help the military branch manage the facilities, systems, equipment, utilities and infrastructure that support the 45th Space Wing and its mission […] More

  • MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Gallium Nitride Component Transition Process for Radars

    Raytheon has received a contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to develop a transition-to-production process that will incorporate Gallium Nitride components onto existing and future AN/TPY-2 radars. The company said Friday the initial effort will also support efforts to modernize ballistic missile defense radars through the transition from Gallium Arsenide to GaN technology which will work to boost […] More

  • Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Neumann Space Ink First Payload Deal for the Bartolomeo Platform on ISS

    Airbus‘ defense and space business unit has signed an initial payload agreement with Neumann Space to develop a future Bartolomeo platform for International Space Station. Airbus said Thursday the Bartolomeo platform will give private and institutional users access to the ISS on commercial terms with a payload mission service designed to support clients in areas such as Earth observation, technology […] More

  • Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI

    The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

  • Microsoft's Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Cloud-Based CRM Platform Gets FedRAMP Board OK Via Accelerated Authorization Process

    Microsoft has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for the company’s cloud-based customer relationship management software offering for public sector clients. The company said Thursday its Dynamics CRM Online Government platform has been granted P-ATO at moderate level through the FedRAMP Accelerated process that works to expedite the CSP certification timeline within six months or less. […] More

  • Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks TEGAM Bond Test System for Ship, Aircraft Maintenance Efforts

    TEGAM has secured $900,000 in orders from the U.S. Navy to supply portable micro-ohm and bond test equipment to help address the aircraft and ship maintenance requirements of the service branch and U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it expects to complete deliveries of the R1L-E2A electrical bonding meter system to the Navy by the end of this year. R1L-E2A is designed to comply with ATEX, UL and CSA […] More

  • ManTech Subcontracts Govplace for Agency Cybersecurity & Cloud Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subcontracts Govplace for Agency Cybersecurity & Cloud Systems

    Govplace has received subcontract from ManTech International to provide cybersecurity and cloud systems to federal agencies in support of the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation and Continuous Monitoring as a Service initiatives. Govplace said Thursday it will work with prime contractor ManTech under CDM Group F phases 1 and 2 that cover 44 federal agencies through a government-only shared services platform […] More

  • HHS' Health IT Coordinator Office Selects 7 Awardees to Support Health Info Exchange - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ Health IT Coordinator Office Selects 7 Awardees to Support Health Info Exchange

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total of $1.5 million to seven recipients under two cooperative agreement programs in an effort to bolster flows of health information. HHS said Wednesday the funds will create standards-based systems to facilitate health information exchanges and lessons learned […] More

  • Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers

    Accenture has unveiled a new cloud-based platform developed to assist wealth management firms that attempt to comply with the Labor Department‘s fiduciary rule for advisers that oversee retirement accounts that will take effect on April 2017. The company said Wednesday the Accenture Wealth Management Compliance Solution for Salesforce will work with the latter’s Financial Services Cloud created to transform the client-advisor relationship for the […] More

  • PapGene Aims to Commercialize Bladder Cancer Surveillance Test With NIH Contract Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PapGene Aims to Commercialize Bladder Cancer Surveillance Test With NIH Contract Funds

    Baltimore, Maryland-based biotechnology company PapGene has secured a potential $2.2 million contract from a National Institutes of Health center to study and commercialize a recurrent bladder cancer surveillance test. PapGene said Tuesday it will receive $299,824 funds from NIH’s National Cancer Institute under the first phase of the Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research contract to demonstrate the accuracy and clinical validity of […] More

  • Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Designated Ambassador of NOAA, NWS Weather Preparedness Program

    Esri will participate in a program that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service aim to prepare U.S. citizens and bolster infrastructure against extreme weather threats. Esri said Tuesday the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador program collaborates with various organizations in an effort to establish preparedness for scenarios during extreme weather. “Our goal is to work with WRN Ambassadors in a whole community […] More

  • D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico

    D-Wave Systems will unveil additional details of its latest quantum computing platform that features a new 2000-qubit processor at an inaugural users group conference Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. D-Wave said Tuesday the processor has doubled the amount of qubits from the previous D-Wave 2X system and introduces control features that work to configure the quantum computational process. Jeremy […] More