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  • AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS to Establish New Fairfax County, VA Corporate Campus

    Amazon Web Services plans to establish a new corporate campus in Fairfax County, Virginia, as part of expansion efforts and expects the project to create up to 1,500 jobs. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership teamed up with the Major Employment and Investment Commission of the state’s general assembly to land the project, AWS said Thusrday. The AWS facility will be […] More

  • Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Team to Chase Navy Large UUV Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Huntington Ingalls Team to Chase Navy Large UUV Program

    Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have partnered to design and build unmanned undersea vehicles as part of a joint pursuit of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large UUV program. The partnership will use HII’s design and production facilities in Huntington Beach, California; Newport News, Virginia; and Panama City, Florida, Boeing said Thursday. The Navy announced in January it plans […] More

  • Navy Receives Huntington Ingalls-Built USS Washington Submarine; Matt Needy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Huntington Ingalls-Built USS Washington Submarine; Matt Needy Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has delivered the USS Washington submarine to the U.S. Navy after the underwater vehicle  completed a round of Board of Inspection and Survey sea trials. The company said Friday that USS Washington, dubbed SSN 787, received the highest score among all new construction Virginia-class submarines under the Figure of Merit scoring system. “The score is a reflection […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has secured a $43.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce Trident II D5 submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles and carry out support for deployed D5 systems. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Washington, Utah and Virginia through Sept. 30, 2017. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs will obligate […] More

  • Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum

    Mark Holloway, an associate at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, will lead a roundtable discussion on technology companies at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Summer Forum on June 13 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in Virginia. The roundtable will focus on ways to successfully build, sell and acquire technology companies. Panelists include: Carolyn Parent, […] More

  • Leidos Secures Follow-On Navy Intell System Support Contract; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Follow-On Navy Intell System Support Contract; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential two-year, $43 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide technical services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s intelligence infrastructure. The follow-on contract covers technical assessment and evaluation, program definition, organization and direction support for the Distributed Common Ground System – Navy family of systems, Leidos said Monday. […] More

  • KeyW Gets ISO Quality Management Certification for Engineering, Technology Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyW Gets ISO Quality Management Certification for Engineering, Technology Services

    National security services provider KeyW has obtained an International Organization for Standardization certificate for the company’s quality management processes at its headquarters and supporting facility located in Hanover, Maryland. Platinum Registration issued the ISO 9001:2015 certification that covers KeyW’s cybersecurity, cloud, data analytics, engineering services and analysis and operations, KeyW said Wednesday. ISO 9001:2015 outlines criteria for quality […] More

  • Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System

    Harris has received a potential one-year, $18.9 million contract modification to provide system sustainment services for the U.S. Air Force’s distributed space command-and-control platform in Dahlgren, Virginia. The modification covers engineering, sustainment services for field service teams, software development and technical orders-related support as well as requirements development analysis and modeling, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on May 16 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that aims to develop mobile technology to assess warfighters’ health condition and combat readiness. DARPA said May 2 the Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health program seeks to use data from cellphone sensors to develop algorithms that can run passive, […] More

  • ACT I Secures F-35 Program Office Logistics Support Subcontract; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Secures F-35 Program Office Logistics Support Subcontract; Michael Niggel Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has received a five-year subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton to provide lifecycle logistics and sustainment services to the Naval Air Systems Command on behalf of the Defense Department‘s F-35 Program Office. The subcontract falls under a task order Booz Allen won through the U.S. Navy‘s Seaport-E contract vehicle, according to an ACT I release. “We look forward to continuing […] More

  • CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More

  • ACT I Named a Finalist for SECAF's 'Govt Contractor of the Year' Award; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Named a Finalist for SECAF’s ‘Govt Contractor of the Year’ Award; Michael Niggel Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International is a finalist for the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum’s Government Contractor of the Year award for companies with revenues between $12 million and $25 million. ACT I said SECAF’s Annual Government Contractor Awards recognizes small and emerging govcon companies as well as industry members that depend on small businesses. “We […] More