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  • General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order

      A business unit of General Dynamics has received a potential five-year, $31 million task order to provide contact center support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. General Dynamics Information Technology will help CDC establish a multichannel, multilingual contact center as well as integrate and assess technology platforms for the facility, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments

    L3 Technologies has broken ground on a 40,000-square-foot expansion at a multipurpose pilot training center in Arlington, Texas, operated by the company’s link training and simulation business unit. The company said Tuesday the existing facility offers instructional and simulation tools to both military and commercial customers. L3 will expand the training center to include six full-flight simulators, classrooms, […] More

  • Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center's GPS Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center’s GPS Directorate

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received an $11.1 million contract to support modernized receiver test assets of global positioning systems directorate at the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. Draper Lab will also provide support services for the SMC GPS directorate’s test and verification branch under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The nonprofit research […] More

  • Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program

    A Comtech Telecommunications business group will support a NASA program through a potential $11 million letter contract from a U.S. aerospace company. Comtech said Tuesday its command and control technologies unit will supply and test space-based electrical, electronic and electromechanical components to the agency contractor. “This is the second large order we’ve received from this customer this fiscal […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative

    The Defense Department has selected a Koniag subsidiary to help DoD’s Executive Steering Group and Defense Digital Service manage an enterprise cloud initiative. Eagle Harbor Solutions will assist CESG in efforts to implement a strategy to accelerate the department’s adoption of cloud-based architectures and services, the company said Jan. 16. EHS, which operates under Koniag’s government services sector, will also […] More

  • Jason Cowie to Lead HyTrust Global Channels in VP Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jason Cowie to Lead HyTrust Global Channels in VP Role

    Jason Cowie, formerly global partner and channel sales manager at Zerto, has been appointed vice president of global channels at HyTrust. Cowie will oversee the Mountain View, California-based information technology firm’s effort to establish a global network of partners to provide a platform designed to protect critical workloads in both public and private cloud environments, […] More

  • Leidos Added to Bloomberg's 2018 Gender Equality Index, Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Added to Bloomberg’s 2018 Gender Equality Index, Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos has been included in Bloomberg‘s 2018 Gender-Equality Index, which recognizes companies’ efforts to promote gender equality. The inaugural index evaluated companies’ statistics, employee policies, community engagement and gender-conscious offerings, Leidos said Wednesday. The 2018 GEI lists firms that scored at or above the global threshold set by Bloomberg to reflect transparency or the implementation of […] More

  • INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has created an advisory committee to offer recommendations and guidance on events, policies and other matters related to INSA and its charitable organization. INSA said Tuesday the panel consists of 26 members who have held senior-level roles within the government or industry and previously served on former INSA advisory […] More

  • Magellan Aerospace Delivers First Power Control Unit for Upcoming Space Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Magellan Aerospace Delivers First Power Control Unit for Upcoming Space Mission

    Canada-based Magellan Aerospace has delivered the first power control unit under a contract in support of a future international space operation. The delivery follows the company’s selection by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to provide three PCUs that will be used for control and data handling units, Magellan Aerospace said […] More

  • Thales Develops Laser Tech for NASA's Mars Rover - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Develops Laser Tech for NASA’s Mars Rover

    Thales Group has developed a laser technology for integration into a rover that NASA aims to send to Mars sometime in 2020. The company said Monday it delivered the SuperCam instrument to France’s national space agency, which signed a partnership agreement with NASA in June 2015 for the Mars 2020 lander mission. SuperCam is based on the […] More

  • Saab, Avioniq to Integrate Airborne C2, Threat Analyzer Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab, Avioniq to Integrate Airborne C2, Threat Analyzer Offerings

    Saab has agreed to integrate its air and airborne command-and-control technology offerings with Avioniq Awareness Sweden‘s threat analysis platform. The 9Air and 9Airborne C2 systems will feature the Rattlesnake engine designed to help fighter aircraft controllers recognize adversarial threats beyond visual range in real time, Saab said Tuesday. Saab’s C2 systems are built to support air […] More

  • Upskill-Built Augmented Reality Tech Now Compatible with Google Glass - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Upskill-Built Augmented Reality Tech Now Compatible with Google Glass

     An Upskill-developed industrial augmented reality system designed to support fieldwork, heavy manufacturing and warehouse production for aerospace, defense, logistics and field service clients can now be used with the Google Glass Enterprise, i-HLS reported Monday. The company’s Skylight technology, which is also compatible with enterprise AR devices, combines worker experiences with gesture- and voice-driven applications as well […] More