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  • Optiv Security Unveils Cyber Threat Intell-as-a-Service Offering; Stu Solomon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Optiv Security Unveils Cyber Threat Intell-as-a-Service Offering; Stu Solomon Comments

    Optiv Security has introduced a cyber threat intelligence-as-a-service offering intended to help organizations develop security models, define cyber risks and address threats. Optiv said Wednesday its cyber threat intelligence and security team developed the service by combining the company’s cybersecurity consulting services with a threat monitoring technology from IntSights. The goal is to help customers implement proactive security policies define an organization-specific […] More

  • Harris to Help DoD Develop Narrowband Soldier Radio Waveform; Chris Young Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Help DoD Develop Narrowband Soldier Radio Waveform; Chris Young Comments

    The National Spectrum Consortium has awarded Harris a three-year contract to produce a narrowband mode of the Defense Department‘s Soldier Radio Waveform. Harris said Wednesday the narrowband SRW will be designed to help reduce spectrum requirements for the deployment of an infantry brigade combat team and expand the warfighter’s point-to-point communications range. “The new narrowband waveform is part of the U.S. Army’s […] More

  • ICF Lands Water Risk Assessment Contract with EPA; Jennifer Welham Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands Water Risk Assessment Contract with EPA; Jennifer Welham Comments

    ICF has received a $12.4 million contract to develop criteria that will guide the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water in efforts to protect the public from the adverse impact of pollutants in the country’s drinking and recreational waters. The contract with EPA’s health and ecological criteria division includes one eight-month base period of performance and four […] More

  • Army Taps DynCorp for Aircraft Component Repair, Mobile Radio Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps DynCorp for Aircraft Component Repair, Mobile Radio Support Services

    The U.S. Army has awarded DynCorp International a potential five-year, $5.12 million task order to repair aircraft components deployed worldwide and a separate $955,000 contract to maintain land mobile radio systems in support of Kosovo’s military forces. DynCorp said Tuesday that it will perform the aircraft parts repair work at Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas as part of the […] More

  • DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Vencore Research Arm for Airborne Comms Optimization Project; Petros Mouchtaris Comments

    Vencore’s research arm has received a 17-month, $2.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to modernize airborne systems and networks as part of an effort to facilitate uninterrupted communication in adverse environments. Vencore Labs will develop technologies to help protect network and radio communications from jamming systems as part of DARPA’s Dynamic Network Adaptation […] More

  • Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool

    Qualtrics has been selected to provide a new customer insights system to the General Services Administration as part of GSA’s efforts to measure and manage the quality of its services. GSA will implement the enterprise-grade platform to collect, analyze and distribute customer feedback in real time through web-based, mobile-responsive collection tools, Qualtrics said Thursday. The system will […] More

  • GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle

    GAMA-1 Technologies has been awarded a prime position on a potential a $2.5 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers information technology support services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s strategic IT planning and management effort. GAMA-1 said Tuesday task orders under the NOAALink Small Business contract are  categorized into customer care, infrastructure management, business management, information security and risk management. […] More

  • Sevatec Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Tanusree McCabe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Tanusree McCabe Comments

    Amazon Web Services has added Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services provider Sevatec to AWS’ Public Sector Partner Program in the government category as part of an extended partnership between the two companies. Sevatec said Monday it seeks to offer cloud architecture, development and migration services to federal government customers through the program. The AWS Public Sector Partner Program recognizes companies that work to […] More

  • BlackMesh Debuts Security-Focused Cloud Offering for Govt Agencies; Jason Ford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackMesh Debuts Security-Focused Cloud Offering for Govt Agencies; Jason Ford Comments

    BlackMesh has introduced a new cloud platform that focuses on security services as part of efforts to extend technology offerings to the government sector. The company said Tuesday its new government-focused cloud platform is designed to comply with federal and state requirements for data storage and security. The offering also seeks to address various industry compliance standards such […] More

  • NASA Sets March Launch Date for Orbital ATK's 7th ISS Cargo Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Sets March Launch Date for Orbital ATK’s 7th ISS Cargo Flight

    Orbital ATK has delivered the pressurized cargo module for the Cygnus spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ahead of a scheduled launch in March. The spacecraft will undergo processing and assembly at the facility and its shipment concludes a new milestone for NASA’s next International Space Station cargo mission, NASA said Tuesday. NASA plans to launch the […] More

  • RE2 Robotics to Develop Robots for Army Combat Medics; Jorgen Pedersen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RE2 Robotics to Develop Robots for Army Combat Medics; Jorgen Pedersen Comments

    Robotic manipulation systems developer RE2 Robotics has received a second phase Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Army to build robotic technologies that would help combat medics perform their tasks in the field. RE2 Robotics said Monday the Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center intends for the robotic systems to minimize risk […] More

  • Safran to Update Navigation System of France's Ballistic Missile Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Safran to Update Navigation System of France’s Ballistic Missile Submarines

    Safran‘s electronics and defense business has been selected to design and build a new global navigation system for integration into the Triomphant-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines of the French navy. The company said Monday it will use feedback from the fleet’s current laser gyro-based navigation systems and other new technologies to develop a new submarine navigation system for France. Safran […] More