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  • WidePoint Secures HHS Mobile Device Mgmt Task Order; Steve Komar, Jin Kang Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint Secures HHS Mobile Device Mgmt Task Order; Steve Komar, Jin Kang Comment

    WidePoint has received an initial three-year, $900,000 task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide mobile device management services to HHS’ office of the chief information officer. McLean, Virginia-based WidePoint said Monday the order falls under a HHS blanket purchase agreement through which all component agencies of the department can procure the company’s telecommunications […] More

  • Contrack Watts to Renovate Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at Marine Corps Base in Hawaii - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Contrack Watts to Renovate Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at Marine Corps Base in Hawaii

    Contrack Watts has secured a potential $45.2 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize an aircraft maintenance hangar facility at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The Defense Department said Monday the MCBH Hangar 101 modernization project will include refurbishment of selected historical features such selective demolition, painting, doors, masonry walls, metal stud and gypsum, board walls, acoustical ceiling panels, interior […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

  • MIL to Provide Service Desk Support for Library of Congress Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL to Provide Service Desk Support for Library of Congress Users

    MIL Corp. has received a contract from the Congressional Research Service to provide service desk support for more than 800 Library of Congress users. Under the contract, MIL’s information technology team will work to operate call centers, repair hardware, configure operating systems and application images, set up audio and video conference room and manage assets, the company said Monday. Work […] More

  • Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements

    An Onvia study has revealed nationwide state, local and educational procurements including bids and requests-for-proposals has declined by 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2016 from Q2 of 2015. Onvia said Thursday its “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q2 2016” report showed the year’s first half showed an 0.6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2015. “Onvia […] More

  • Jim Soltys: Noblis to Support GSA's Federal Telecoms Acquisition Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Soltys: Noblis to Support GSA’s Federal Telecoms Acquisition Programs

    Noblis has received two task orders to help the General Services Administration identify pricing strategies and analyze costs of telecommunication services that the agency provides to federal customers. Noblis said Wednesday it will support efforts of GSA’s Office of Network Services Programs to maintain and update the agency’s telecommunications and network services. “GSA manages telecommunications acquisition programs that provide […] More

  • Report: Boeing Seeks FCC License to Launch Constellation of V-band Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Seeks FCC License to Launch Constellation of V-band Satellites

    Boeing has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a license to deploy and operate a constellation of up to 2,956 V-band low-orbiting satellites in an effort to provide telecommunications services for government and commercial clients, Space News reported Thursday. Peter B. de Selding writes Boeing said in its June 22 petition with […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts the unified communication as a service market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent beginning in 2016 through 2022. The report indicates that telecommunications, information technology and retail applications currently dominate the market and that banking, financial services and insurance and logistics will drive the […] More

  • Tim Meehan: CenturyLink Adds GENBAND Application Server to Networx Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Meehan: CenturyLink Adds GENBAND Application Server to Networx Offerings

    CenturyLink has added GENBAND-built application server products to its General Services Administration Networx telecommunications contract. GENBAND’s Experius server works to provide multimedia communications applications and integrate voice, video, instant messaging, presence, mobility, conferencing and collaboration tools networks and devices, CenturyLink said Thursday. Tim Meehan, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s federal government unit, said the companies aim […] More

  • Level 3 Receives 3-Year Extension to GSA Networx Enterprise Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Level 3 Receives 3-Year Extension to GSA Networx Enterprise Contract

    Level 3 Communications will continue to provide internet, virtual private network and cloud services to federal agencies as part of a three-year extension to its Networx Enterprise contract with the General Services Administration. GSA extended the company’s Networx Enterprise contract, which is scheduled to expire in May 2017, through May 2020 in order to provide […] More

  • Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology Unit to Install Telecom Infrastructure at U.S. Naval Base in Africa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology Unit to Install Telecom Infrastructure at U.S. Naval Base in Africa

    A subsidiary of PAR Technology has received a 27-month contract worth $1.8 million to help the U.S. Navy build telecommunications infrastructure at a naval expeditionary base located in Djibouti, Africa. Rome Research Corp. will support telecommunications system engineering and installation at Camp Lemonnier, PAR said Wednesday. Matt Cicchinelli, president of PAR’s government business segment, said the contract supports the company’s efforts […] More

  • Avaya, India Telecom Minister to Discuss Rural Area Connectivity Expansion Plans; KT Rama Rao Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, India Telecom Minister to Discuss Rural Area Connectivity Expansion Plans; KT Rama Rao Comments

    Avaya has begun negotiations with India’s information technology and telecommunications minister for a possible digital and connectivity expansion in a rural state. The company’s “Digital Telangana” plan has a goal to will deliver connectivity to 8.5 million households — equivalent to more than 32 million people — in the state and surrounding rural areas through the end of […] More