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  • NASA Extends Teledyne's ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Extends Teledyne’s ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract

    A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has received a contract extension to provide ground operations support for the International Space Station through NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center and Johnson Space Center. The company said Tuesday Teledyne Brown Engineering will continue to help the agency prepare missions, train crew and flight controllers crew and manage spaceflight operations requirements under the extended Mission Operations […] More

  • DOI Taps Birdseyeview to Deliver UAS for Land Stewardship Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOI Taps Birdseyeview to Deliver UAS for Land Stewardship Operations

    The U.S. Department of the Interior has selected Birdseyeview Aerobotics to produce 50 fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems built for vertical take off and landing in support of land stewardship operations. The DOI said Tuesday it intends to use the UAS with technologies designed to aid in resource management and emergency response. The aircraft is expected to weigh […] More

  • CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments

    CSRA will compete for task orders to provide information technology engineering support services for the Department of Health and Human Services under a potential eight-year, $139 million blanket purchase agreement awarded in February. The company said Tuesday the Next-Generation IT Services engineering BPA covers unified communications and collaboration, enterprise mobile management, infrastructure, endpoint, email, facilities and print-server engineering […] More

  • DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech

    ForeScout Technologies has received Security Technical Implementation Guide validation from the Defense Information Systems Agency for a technology product designed to help government customers discover, manage and classify multiple devices and applications. The STIG validation for CounterACT follows an agreement signed between ForeScout and the Defense Department through Enterprise Software Initiative program, the company said Monday. DoD’s EIS program helps defense organizations […] More

  • Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security

    Leonardo has tested the resilience of its naval gun weapon system to cyber attacks as part of an extensive vulnerability assessment effort. The company said Tuesday it evaluated the OTO 76/62 Super Rapid gun to identify potential system weaknesses and implement measures to address identified cybersecurity risks. During the evaluation, Leonardo explored attack scenarios that involved voluntary […] More

  • Honeywell Supplies Material for Safariland Group's New Ballistic Shields - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Supplies Material for Safariland Group’s New Ballistic Shields

    Safariland Group has produced a new lightweight ballistic shield using Honeywell‘s  Spectra Shield ballistic-resistant composite material. Honeywell said Tuesday the newest product in Safariland’s X Series line of ballistic shields is designed to weigh up to 20 percent less than traditional ballistic handheld shields, which usually weigh more than 20 pounds. The X Series shield works to integrate the […] More

  • Rick Wagner: ManTech to Back Army INSCOM Through Insider Threat, Forensic Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Wagner: ManTech to Back Army INSCOM Through Insider Threat, Forensic Capabilities

    Rick Wagner, president of ManTech International’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, has said the company will leverage its cyber forensic and insider threat capabilities to support the mission of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and the 902nd military intelligence group through a potential $133 million contract. “INSCOM, like many government partners, faces an […] More

  • ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a three-year task order to provide exercise program support to the U.S. Air Force‘s Eighth Air Force organization headquartered at Barksdale AF Base in Louisiana. ACT I said the order covers planning, scheduling, tasking and monitoring the participation of Eighth Air Force in the chairman of the joint chiefs […] More

  • Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $35.3 million contract to provide operational safety, occupational health, mission assurance services at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will also help manage the center’s safety and mission assurance directorate manage aeronautics and space flight systems and ground support equipment programs. NASA said Wednesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains a 45-day […] More

  • Orbital ATK Unveils In-Space Robotic Vehicle, Mission Extension Pods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Unveils In-Space Robotic Vehicle, Mission Extension Pods

    Orbital ATK unveiled two in-orbit satellite servicing platforms at the Satellite 2018 conference and exhibition. The company said Tuesday the Mission Robotic Vehicle and Mission Extension Pods comprise a system designed to facilitate repairs and extend the life of satellite assets. MRV works to carry out space robotic functions and install MEPs and other payloads on […] More

  • TeraThink Adds Deborah Lee James to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TeraThink Adds Deborah Lee James to Board of Directors

    TeraThink has appointed Deborah Lee James, a 35-year public and private sector veteran, to the federal technology and management consulting firm’s board of directors. The company said Monday James joins the board four months after the Reston, Virginia-based company merged with Dominion Consulting. James said she aims to help government clients improve their operations and business processes as part of a […] More

  • TTEC Holdings' Regina Paolillo Elected to Unisys Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TTEC Holdings’ Regina Paolillo Elected to Unisys Board

    Regina Paolillo, an executive vice president and chief financial and administrative officer at TTEC Holdings, has been elected to join Unisys‘ board of directors. Paolillo brings finance, operations, investments, acquisitions and digital technology experience to Unisys as a board member, the company said Tuesday. She has served as TTEC’s CFAO since 2011 and oversees finance, treasury, accounting, enterprise […] More