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  • Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Awards $2.6B in Screening Services Contract Extensions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Awards $2.6B in Screening Services Contract Extensions

    Canada’s air transport security authority has renewed its contracts with G4S Secure Solutions, GardaWorld and Securitas Transport Aviation Security for airport screening services across the country. CATSA said Tuesday the potential ceiling values of the extensions total $2.6 billion and each contractor will extend work with the agency by five years through March 31, 2022. Angus Watt, CATSA’s president and CEO, said the agency and its […] More

  • Noetic-Ohio State-APA Team Forms Health Intervention Initiative As Part of Cancer Moonshot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noetic-Ohio State-APA Team Forms Health Intervention Initiative As Part of Cancer Moonshot Program

    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has released a report that outlines several public and private sector commitments in support of the Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot program. Consulting firm Noetic has teamed up with the Ohio State University and American Psychological Association to form a health intervention program that seeks to help health providers, patients and […] More

  • D-Wave Unveils US Gov’t Subsidiary, Names Independent Board Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave Unveils US Gov’t Subsidiary, Names Independent Board Members

    D-Wave Systems has established a new subsidiary that will work to provide quantum computer systems to U.S. government agencies and has appointed executives that will serve on the subsidiary’s independent board. The company said Tuesday Jeffrey Harris, chairman of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and former president of special programs at Lockheed Martin, will serve as chairman […] More

  • ASEC to Support Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron One - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASEC to Support Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron One

    Aviation Systems Engineering Co. has secured a potential six-year, $35.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for technical, analytical, administrative and material support services to the military branch’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron One. The Defense Department said Tuesday the service branch will obligate $635,299 in fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation, operations and maintenance funds at the time […] More

  • Honeywell, OG&E to Support Tinker Air Force Base's Facility Modernization, Energy Savings Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, OG&E to Support Tinker Air Force Base’s Facility Modernization, Energy Savings Goals

    Honeywell and Oklahoma Gas & Electric have partnered to help modernize Tinker Air Force Base under a $19.1 million utility energy service contract funded by future savings generated through modernized systems, Honeywell said Wednesday the Air Force expects modernization work at the base to finish in December and the updates aim to help Tinker AFB reduce carbon footprint by approximately 196,903 tons over the life of […] More

  • DOE Issues Draft RFQ for NNSA Engineering, Technical Support BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Issues Draft RFQ for NNSA Engineering, Technical Support BPA

    The Energy Department has issued a draft request for quotation in support of a plan to develop a blanket purchase agreement for engineering, programmatic and technical services in support of DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration. A FedConnect notice posted Friday says the the RFQ is open to vendors that hold the General Services Administration’s contract schedules for […] More

  • CAE Reports $76M in US, Intl Defense Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Reports $76M in US, Intl Defense Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has reported $76.3 million in defense contracts from sector customers such as U.S. military agencies and other companies Insitu and Rotorsim. The company said Tuesday the U.S. Air Force and Navy have exercised contract options for continued KC-135 tanker and T-44C aircrew training services respectively. Work to support the Air Force’s KC-135 program will […] More

  • Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems

    Unisys has secured a potential five-year contract from the Customs and Border Protection to update systems that CBP uses to identify people and vehicles that enter and exit the U.S. The Integrated Traveler Initiatives contract was awarded as a task order under the Department of Homeland Security-run EAGLE II procurement vehicle and represents an iteration of CBP’s Land Border Integration project awarded to […] More

  • DoD’s Innovation Org Awards $36M in FY 2016 Contracts Via New Acquisition Process; Raj Shah Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD’s Innovation Org Awards $36M in FY 2016 Contracts Via New Acquisition Process; Raj Shah Comments

    A Defense Department organization has awarded 12 contracts worth approximately $36.3 million combined in fiscal year 2016, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental group made the contract awards within an average period of 60 days and provided $8.3 million in funds to support the contracts. Tanium secured $12.7 million in DIUx contracts to develop […] More

  • NASA Launches Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Launches Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    An Orbital ATK-built spacecraft lifted off Monday onboard the company’s updated Antares 230 rocket to deliver more than 5,100 pounds of scientific instruments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. NASA said Monday the Cygnus spacecraft’s launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia marks Orbital ATK’s sixth cargo delivery mission to the ISS under the Commercial Resupply Services contract and […] More

  • SpaceX Seeks Dragon Spacecraft Reuse for 2017 ISS Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Seeks Dragon Spacecraft Reuse for 2017 ISS Resupply Mission

    SpaceX plans to launch used Dragon spacecraft for cargo delivery missions to the International Space Station by 2017 as part of the Elon Musk-owned company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, SpaceNews reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes that Benjamin Reed, SpaceX director of commercial crew mission management, told the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight that SpaceX looks to reuse Dragon spacecraft to […] More

  • Breaking Defense: Air Force's F-35 Flight Operations to Resume by Year's End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: Air Force’s F-35 Flight Operations to Resume by Year’s End

    The U.S. Air Force plans to resume operations of its F-35 joint strike fighter jets by the end of this year after the completion of repairs to the aircraft’s fuel pipes, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The F-35 Joint Program Office has has said the non-compliant Polyalphaolefin coolant tubes of the Air Force’s 15 operational F-35 jets are undergoing modifications, Colin Clark writes. Repairs […] More