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  • Telos to Provide Cybersecurity Upgrade for USAF Demilitarized Zone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Provide Cybersecurity Upgrade for USAF Demilitarized Zone

    Telos Corporation has received a $26.9 million contract to modify and replace the cybersecurity systems of a U.S. Air Force demilitarized zone through networking equipment updates and security management services. The company said Wednesday it will conduct contract work at Robins Air Force Base, Beale Air Force Base, Langley Air Force Base and Kansas in the U.S. as well as Ramstein Air […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada's ISS Transportation Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada’s ISS Transportation Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corporation has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to provide an electrical power system for the former’s Dream Chaser commercial spacecraft designated by NASA to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday it will design, create, test and install the electrical power system onto Dream Chaser as well as provide power conversion and […] More

  • Cubic to Provide Mobile Payment, Cloud Computing Services to Support Miami-Dade Transit System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Provide Mobile Payment, Cloud Computing Services to Support Miami-Dade Transit System

    The Miami-Dade County’s department of transportation and public works has awarded a Cubic business unit a $33 million contract to update the county’s EASY Card revenue management system and deliver back-office cloud computing and support services over 10 years. The company said Tuesday its transportation systems business will provide its contactless bankcard and a near-field communications mobile open payment […] More

  • UbiQD Eyes Solar Energy Applications for Quantum Dot Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UbiQD Eyes Solar Energy Applications for Quantum Dot Technology

    The National Science Foundation has awarded UbiQD a 12-month, $225,000 grant to advance research and development on luminescent solar-concentrating glass windows with quantum dot coatings under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program. The Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy originally helped create the solar energy technology, and UbiQD included the technology’s proof-of-concept […] More

  • IBA Unveils Cloud-Based Mobile App Delivery Platform for Federal Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBA Unveils Cloud-Based Mobile App Delivery Platform for Federal Gov’t

    Irving Burton Associates has unveiled a cloud-based service that is built on open source technology and designed to accelerate the delivery of native, hybrid and web-based mobile applications. The Federal Mobile Services Platform works to supply rapid prototypes to Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry devices and comply with federal customer security requirements and policies, IBA said Thursday. Cleveland Cooke, IBA’s […] More

  • General Dynamics Virginia-Class Attack Submarine Illinois Completes First Open Sea Voyage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Virginia-Class Attack Submarine Illinois Completes First Open Sea Voyage

    The Virginia-class attack submarine Illinois has completed its first voyage into open seas and has returned to a shipyard run by General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary. General Dynamics said Monday the nuclear-powered submarine submerged for the first time and underwent a number of submarine and propulsion-plant operations and high-speed runs on and below the surface to test its propulsion plant […] More

  • Summit2Sea to Help Update DARPA's Financial Mgmt Tools; Bryan Eckle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit2Sea to Help Update DARPA’s Financial Mgmt Tools; Bryan Eckle Comments

    Summit2Sea Consulting has won a potential five-year, $28 million contract to update tools the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency uses to manage financial activities. The company said Monday it will integrate the Treasury Internet Payment Platform as well as Hyperion budget formulation and governance, risk management  and compliance applications into DARPA’s enterprise resource planning system. Summit2Sea will also provide its expertise […] More

  • FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Siemens Zika Virus Detection Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Siemens Zika Virus Detection Tech

    The Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency use authorization to a Siemens subsidiary for an assay kit built to detect the presence of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in patients. PCR Zika Virus assay VERSANT Zika RNA 1.0 Assay (kPCR) Kit. The FDA uses the EUA designation to clear unapproved medical products and unapproved uses of them in certain […] More

  • Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV Lands Foreign Sales Contracts for Active, Passive Sonobuoys - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV Lands Foreign Sales Contracts for Active, Passive Sonobuoys

    A joint venture of Ultra Electronics Holdings and Sparton has secured $19.2 million in contracts to manufacture underwater acoustics technology for multiple foreign customers. The ERAPSCO/SonobuoyTech Systems JV will distribute contract funds to the Ultra Electronics USSI and Sparton De Leon Springs business units for the production of active and passive sonabuoys, Sparton said Monday. Sonobuoys are designed to detect, classify and localize adversary submarines during […] More

  • Raytheon Opens Hub Near Future Army Cyber Command HQ; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens Hub Near Future Army Cyber Command HQ; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon has opened a new facility in Augusta, Georgia that will act as a center for the company’s cybersecurity services to the U.S. Army Cyber Command as the latter organization continues relocating to Fort Gordon. The center will also support the company’s cyber offerings to other Defense Department agencies, Raytheon said Monday. Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence segment, said the company aims to build […] More

  • Booz Allen to Provide Enterprise Mgmt, Technical Support for Navy Shore Network Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Provide Enterprise Mgmt, Technical Support for Navy Shore Network Modernization Efforts

    Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential $26.4 million task order to exercise the first option year of a potential $66 million contract to provide enterprise management and technical support to the U.S. Navy information force’s shore modernization and integration directorate. The Defense Department said July 25 the company will support the directorate’s work in enterprise architecture […] More

  • Radiance Technologies to Develop, Test High-Fidelity Sensor Models for USAF - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiance Technologies to Develop, Test High-Fidelity Sensor Models for USAF

    The U.S. Air Force has selected Radiance Technologies to design, develop and test multiple high-fidelity sensor models and associated communication links and command-and-control nodes under a $17.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract. Radiance Technologies will perform work for the contract at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through July 28, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. […] More