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  • George Newstrom: Dell Federal Picked to Develop NRC Cloud Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Newstrom: Dell Federal Picked to Develop NRC Cloud Infrastructure

    Dell Services Federal Government has won a contract to help the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission build and implement a cloud computing infrastructure for the agency to manage on-premise information technology functions. The NRC private cloud will be designed to address IT cost and operational issues and help the commission meet federal cloud migration requirements, Dell said […] More

  • CACI Wins Spot on Army's $497M Communications, Network Contract; John Mengucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Wins Spot on Army’s $497M Communications, Network Contract; John Mengucci Comments

    CACI International has won prime position on a $497 million U.S. Army multiple-award contract for communications and networking services. The service’s Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a three-year base period and two option years in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2014, the company said Monday. “This new work in communications […] More

  • Brazil's National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil’s National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform

    Teradata has worked with Brazil’s national police agency to deploy a new analytics platform for border security operations. The platform is based on the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse tool and the agency aims to use the platform to manage traffic on federal highways, the company announced Monday. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has made it a […] More

  • Thales to Supply French Navy With 2 Identification Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Supply French Navy With 2 Identification Systems

    Thales has been awarded a contract to provide the French Navy‘s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier with two latest-generation identification friend or foe systems. Under the contract awarded by the French Defence Procurement Agency, Thales will install its BlueGate IG Systems to provide the French carriers with effective Mode 5 and Mode S capabilities, Thales […] More

  • BAE, L-3 Conclude Int'l F-18 Maintenance Work; Steve Drury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, L-3 Conclude Int’l F-18 Maintenance Work; Steve Drury Comments

    BAE Systems and engineering partner L-3 MAS Canada have completed a maintenance contract intended to support a fleet of the Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Defence Magazine reported Friday. The companies worked to maintain and add structural refurbishments to the F/A-18 Classic Hornet fleet to keep the planes combat ready before the Joint Strike Fighter […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands Mobile Bridge Systems to New Zealand's Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands Mobile Bridge Systems to New Zealand’s Army

    The European land systems unit of General Dynamics has delivered four mobile bridge systems to New Zealand’s army to help cross gaps such as streams and rivers, UPI reported Thursday.  The bridge systems were a joint purchase with the U.K.’s defense ministry. The purchase is part of a bigger equipment upgrade project that includes combat Earth-moving […] More

  • Accenture to Help Manage Spain-Based Public Education IT System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture to Help Manage Spain-Based Public Education IT System

    Accenture has been awarded a one-year contract to refresh and maintain a human resources system for the public education system of Spain’s Junta of Andalusia. The system is built to contain payroll generation, teacher vacancies and substitutions information and other e-services for 100,000 teachers and 4,000 schools in the region, Accenture announced Thursday. Under the contract, […] More

  • Judy Marks: Siemens, GSA Target Carbon Emission Cuts at Federal Buildings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Judy Marks: Siemens, GSA Target Carbon Emission Cuts at Federal Buildings

    Siemens Government Technologies will work to install new heating and cooling plants at three federal buildings under a $37.2 million General Services Administration contract, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes that Siemens will pay upfront costs of energy-savings retrofits for 13 projects spread across the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. […] More

  • Merlin to Compete on $3B DHS IT Commodities Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Merlin to Compete on $3B DHS IT Commodities Vehicle

    Merlin International holds a prime position on a potential seven-year, $22 billion contract to help the Department of Homeland Security acquire information technology commodities from original equipment manufacturers. The $3 billion DHS FirstSource II contract has a five-year base period with two one-year option periods, Merlin announced Monday. FirstSource II is intended to connect DHS […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Help GSA Buildings Service Refresh IT Setup - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Help GSA Buildings Service Refresh IT Setup

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide Apache Targeting, Night Vision Sensors to Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide Apache Targeting, Night Vision Sensors to Saudi Arabia

    The U.S. Army has selected Lockheed Martin for a $22 million contract to provide the Apache helicopters of the Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command with targeting and night vision sensors. For the three-year contract, Lockheed Martin will provide the command with Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensors tools and test equipment for maintenance […] More

  • A-T Solutions Wins Security Audit Work from NY, NJ Port Authority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-T Solutions Wins Security Audit Work from NY, NJ Port Authority

    A-T Solutions Inc. was awarded a $6.5 million five-year firm-fixed contract to assess and recommend the best security practices to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Under the security auditing program, the company will provide the Port Authority’s security managers with a “repeatable, scalable and proven methodology” for conducting security audits, A-T […] More