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  • Report: FAA Aims to Transition Enterprise IT Network to FISMA 'High' Category - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: FAA Aims to Transition Enterprise IT Network to FISMA ‘High’ Category

    The Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to recategorize from “moderate” to “high” level its enterprise information technology network under the Federal Information Security Management Act, FCW reported Monday. The move to update the FISMA categorization of the FAA Enterprise Network Services program is part of the agency’s efforts to modernize its air traffic control system. […] More

  • NTT Data, Spear Partner Under SBA All Small Mentor-Protege Program; Tim Conway Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data, Spear Partner Under SBA All Small Mentor-Protege Program; Tim Conway Quoted

    An NTT Data division has secured approval from the Small Business Administration to provide business development support to Virginia-based information technology services contractor Spear through a mentor-protege agreement. The agreement between Spear and NTT Data Services is part of SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protege Program and could run for up to three years with a potential […] More

  • Larry Prior: GovCon Industry Could See 'Another Wave of Consolidation' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Larry Prior: GovCon Industry Could See ‘Another Wave of Consolidation’

    Former CSRA CEO Larry Prior, a four-time Wash100 winner, has said the federal government’s spending plans and demand for novel technology platforms will likely drive more mergers and acquisitions among contracting firms, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Prior, who was recently named to the board of analytics firm Novetta, said at a breakfast event Friday there […] More

  • Lockheed Previews Deep Space Habitat Prototype at Kennedy Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Previews Deep Space Habitat Prototype at Kennedy Space Center

    Lockheed Martin has provided an initial look of a 22-foot-long habitat prototype it has built for NASA in support of deep space missions, the Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday. The company unveiled at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the habitat, which is designed to accommodate up to four astronauts for a month to 60 days […] More

  • Forcepoint’s Eric Trexler: CDM Program Could Help Federal Agencies Build Cyber Needs Into IT Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forcepoint’s Eric Trexler: CDM Program Could Help Federal Agencies Build Cyber Needs Into IT Efforts

    Eric Trexler, vice president for global governments and critical infrastructure sales at Forcepoint, has said the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program launched by the Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration is an initial step in the integration of cybersecurity requirements into federal information technology efforts. Trexler wrote in a LinkedIn article posted […] More

  • Report: USAF-Lockheed Contracts Likely to Boost Hypersonic Dev’t Work in Orlando, Fla. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: USAF-Lockheed Contracts Likely to Boost Hypersonic Dev’t Work in Orlando, Fla.

    Lockheed Martin could hire more employees and collaborate with small businesses in Orlando, Fla., to support hypersonic weapon development work under two U.S. Air Force contracts worth up to $1.4B combined, the Orlando Business Journal reported Friday. Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business secured on Aug. 13 a potential $480M contract to build an air-launched […] More

  • VA Issues Solicitation for Content Management System Dev’t Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Issues Solicitation for Content Management System Dev’t Contract

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated its search for potential contractors that can help VA develop a content management system as part of its efforts to update its veteran-facing website, VA.gov. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the move is part of VA’s digital modernization strategy that seeks to upgrade its digital tools in […] More

  • Army Taps 5 Firms for Big Data Mgmt Dashboard Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps 5 Firms for Big Data Mgmt Dashboard Contracts

    Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More

  • Sehlke Consulting Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sehlke Consulting Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2018 Fast-Growth Company List

    Sehlke Consulting has been named to the Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 “fastest-growing” U.S. companies for 2018. The Arlington, Va. based company said Wednesday  it landed the 435th spot in this year’s Inc. 5000 ranking for recording a three-year growth rate of 1,157 percent. Chad Sehlke, founder and CEO of Sehlke Consulting, said receiving the Inc. […] More

  • Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Brings Geospatial Analytics Experience to Agencies Through Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: Radiant Solutions Brings Geospatial Analytics Experience to Agencies Through Partnerships

    Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions and a three-time Wash100 recipient, has said the company partnered with U.S. defense and intelligence companies in the past six months to share its geospatial analytics experience in support of their national security missions. The Maxar Technologies subsidiary collaborated with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency over the Janus Geography program and launch of a new […] More

  • Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Performs Multinode Distributed Test of Northrop Battle Command System

    The U.S. Army has tested long-range network management features of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. IBCS helped soldiers maintain video, data and voice connectivity through network management, execute and track simulated threats and identify aerial objects as “friend or foe” during the five-week soldier checkout event held with air-and-missile defense […] More

  • Report: Defense Contractors Optimistic on Space Force Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Defense Contractors Optimistic on Space Force Proposal

    Some defense companies have expressed optimism on the Trump administration’s plan to establish a new “space force” as they expect the proposed service branch to boost defense spending on space-related work, The Hill reported Wednesday. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us in the industry to see the intense level of interest that this administration and […] More