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  • BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted

    BayFirst Solutions has received a task order to provide risk analysis and data management services to the Transportation Security Administration. The company said Wednesday it will help TSA manage and maintain the Risk IT System that supports the agency’s risk-based operation and policy development functions, as well as collect information on threats and vulnerabilities. BayFirst CEO Kevin […] More

  • Cubic Gets Recognition for Air Combat Training System Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Gets Recognition for Air Combat Training System Development

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has won an award from the National Training and Simulation Association for developing a live, virtual and constructive technology designed to train U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy fighter pilots. The company said Wednesday it received the 2018 Modeling and Simulation award Tuesday at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference. Cubic […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE

    Leonardo DRS has manufactured and delivered to General Electric a gas turbine package built for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. The GE-designed LM2500 platform is intended for installation on the USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126), Leonardo DRS said Monday. Jamie McMullin, senior director of naval power systems group at Leonardo DRS, said the delivery […] More

  • DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama

    DynCorp International will provide logistics services and materials needed to maintain the U.S. Navy‘s TH-57 helicopters under a $152M contract the Naval Air Systems Command awarded last month. DynCorp said Tuesday it will conduct organizational- and intermediate-level maintenance efforts at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Fla., and will perform depot-level support at a company facility in Andalusia, […] More

  • Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture

    U.S. Strategic Command has issued a request for information on potential approaches to modernize and operate a nuclear command, control and communications enterprise. Stratcom will use ideas from commercial and academic entities regarding the transition of the Defense Department toward a new NC3 environment, the U.S. Air Force said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The […] More

  • Boeing Taps Lockheed to Develop, Test F-15C Sensor Systems for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Lockheed to Develop, Test F-15C Sensor Systems for Air Force

    Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin a pair of contracts to produce and integrate multifunction sensor systems into the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15C jets. Lockheed said Tuesday it will manufacture 19 Legion Pod low-rate initial production systems under an LRIP contract and will test, qualify and install sensors over a 28-month period under an engineering and manufacturing development contract. Legion Pod is […] More

  • Accenture’s Annette Rippert Named NAFE STEM Champion in Technology; Paul Daugherty Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture’s Annette Rippert Named NAFE STEM Champion in Technology; Paul Daugherty Quoted

    Annette Rippert, senior managing director for technology at Accenture, has been recognized by the National Association of Female Executives for her efforts to encourage women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields. “As the leader of our technology business in North America, Annette has made great strides in moving us closer to a […] More

  • TechFlow to Support USDA IT Modernization Effort; Greg Godbout Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechFlow to Support USDA IT Modernization Effort; Greg Godbout Quoted

    TechFlow has received a contract from the General Services Administration to provide information technology services to the Agriculture Department through centers of excellence. The company said Monday it will help USDA update infrastructure and adopt cloud technology, with a special focus on the areas of replatforming, application rehosting, cloud platform services and DevSecOps. Greg Godbout, chief […] More

  • SOCOM Orders Boeing A/MH-6 Helicopter Airframe Structures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOCOM Orders Boeing A/MH-6 Helicopter Airframe Structures

    Boeing has received a potential $45M contract to provide updated airframe structures for U.S. Special Operations Command’s A/MH-6  helicopters. The company will provide 56 primary airframes for the rotary wing platform under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that has a minimum order value of $100K, the Defense Department said Monday. SOCOM will obligate $5.2M in fiscal 2018 procurement funds at the […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue Missile Repair, Maintenance Work for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue Missile Repair, Maintenance Work for Navy

    Raytheon has received a $37.2M contract modification to continue intermediate-level repair and maintenance services for the U.S. Navy’s Standard Missile-2 and Standard Missile-6 systems. The Navy will obligate $19M in fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Monday. The company’s missile systems business will perform work in Arizona, Arkansas and Alabama […] More

  • BAE Unit Wins $80M Contract to Help Manage Navy Comm, Electronic & Computer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Wins $80M Contract to Help Manage Navy Comm, Electronic & Computer Systems

    BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business will help the U.S. Navy maintain and operate electronic, communication and computing platforms under a potential five-year, $79.8M contract. The firm-fixed-price contract has a base value of $13.9M over a 12-month period that runs through November 2019 and work could extend for an additional four more years if […] More

  • IARPA, NIST Seek Cross-Lingual Data Retrieval Algorithms via Prize Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA, NIST Seek Cross-Lingual Data Retrieval Algorithms via Prize Competition

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have invited academic and industry researchers worldwide to develop algorithms for retrieval of cross-lingual information through a $30K prize competition. IARPA said the OpenCLIR Challenge seeks technology that will work to help English speakers to identify content from blogs, social media, speeches, newswire and […] More