AECOM‘s URS Federal Services subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $69.4 million contract to provide laboratory support services and help manage operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Work covers lab maintenance, support and operational services as well as professional and technical support for the center’s scientific research and engineering analysis, …
Read More »DHS Extends eGlobalTech’s FOIA Support Services Contract; Joseph Zimmerman Comments
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded eGlobalTech a four-year contract to continue to help DHS’ privacy office manage Freedom of Information Act-related requests and backlogs. Arlington, Virginia-based eGlobalTech said Tuesday it has provided FOIA request support, process improvement, project management, research and data analysis services to DHS since 2015. …
Read More »ManTech Awarded USAF Business, Network IT Support Contract; Bill Varner Comments
ManTech International has won a potential 10-year, multimillion dollar contract for integrated management and business support services to the U.S. Air Force. The contract represents new work for the company and includes network information technology services, ManTech said Thursday. Bill Varner, president of ManTech’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, …
Read More »ARCTEC to Extend Air Force Radar O&M Support in Alaska
ARCTEC Alaska, an ASRC Federal Primus–ATCO Structures and Logistics joint venture, will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage a military radar system installed in Alaska under a $37.9 million contract modification. The modification exercises a 12-month option under the company’s Alaska Radar System operations and maintenance contract with the service branch, …
Read More »Leidos Gets $61M Contract Funds to Help Army Sustain Aerial IED Neutralizer Platform
The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a potential $61 million contract modification to help manage an aerial platform built to help U.S. and international security assistance forces neutralize improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. Leidos will support operations, sustainment and integration of Saturn Arch quick reaction capability systems through Sept. 16, 2018, …
Read More »Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ
Joint Tactics and Technologies has won a potential five-year, $18 million contract to provide cyber support for the U.S. Navy‘s computer network defense efforts. JTT will help the Navy configure and sustain networks as well as analyze, evaluate, integrate and implement security products under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. …
Read More »Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Cloud-Based Networks Key for IoT Mgmt in Federal Sector
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he believes agencies can manage the surplus of data from internet-of-things devices through cloud computing technology. He told MeriTalk in an interview published Thursday agencies should find approaches to mitigate IoT’s potential security threats to federal workforce and missions. “Fully utilizing cloud-based …
Read More »Air Force Taps UDRI for Vehicle Nonmetallic Material R&D Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential seven-year, $43 million contract to the University of Dayton Research Institute for research and development of nonmetallic materials the military branch can use to build, repair and maintain multiple vehicle platforms. UDRI said Monday its research team will perform R&D work on composites, …
Read More »Artel to Provide Telecom Circuits for Defense Info Systems Network
Artel has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to procure circuits for a global telecommunications network the Defense Information Systems Agency uses to facilitate information exchange among mission partners. The company said Monday it will use full-duplex Layer 3 circuits in an effort to deliver a backbone service in support …
Read More »Hughes to Study Wideband Satcom Tech Interoperability Under DoD Contract; Rick Lober Comments
The Defense Department has awarded Hughes Network Systems a contract of an undisclosed value to examine how satellite transports can interoperate for potential use in government wideband communications. Hughes said Monday it aims to produce a wideband communications architecture that will work to facilitate multiple space and ground transports through a design …
Read More »DLA Orders F-16 Cockpit TV Cameras From Elbit Systems Subsidiary
Elbit Systems‘ EFW subsidiary has secured a five-year, $21 million contract to supply cockpit television video cameras for the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 aircraft fleet. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency and runs through July 19, 2022, the Defense Department said Friday. EFW will perform work …
Read More »Leonardo DRS-Moog Team to Develop Counter-UAS Tech for Army MRAPs
A team composed of Leonardo DRS and Moog has secured a $16 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop a technology for soldiers to identify, detect and track unmanned aerial system threats. The team will equip a mobile counter-UAS platform with Leonardo DRS’ surveillance and battlefield reconnaissance equipment, Moog’s reconfigurable …
Read More »Booz Allen Wins $50M Contract to Help Army Manage Chemical Warfare Materials
Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential five-year, $50 million contract to support a U.S. Army directorate focused on the assessment and destruction of recovered chemical warfare materials. The company will provide program management, mission and operational support services to the Army’s Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled …
Read More »General Dynamics to Continue Army Mission Command Network Support
General Dynamics‘ information technology unit has received a one-year, $14.9 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Army manage a mission command network. GDIT will extend its network operations and maintenance services at an Army facility in South Korea through July 31, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The service …
Read More »Technica Lands Air Force Top-Secret Network Support Contract
Technica has secured a potential four-year, $33 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force manage a network that stores top secret/sensitive compartmented information. The company said Tuesday it will support the Air Combat Command’s Program Management Office for Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications Systems and the 625th Air Communications Squadron under …
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