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  • ManTech Attains CMMI Level 4 Rating; Bonnie Cook Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Attains CMMI Level 4 Rating; Bonnie Cook Comments

    ManTech has received Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 4 for Development appraisal from a CMMI Institute partner organization for the company’s quantitative project management efforts. Cyber Solutions assessed ManTech’s work to analyze statistical data and predict key performance goals for two U.S. military projects, ManTech said Wednesday. The evaluation involved the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise Accelerator and Defense Medical information […] More

  • Orbital ATK Gets $67M Navy Contract to Produce Additional Target Base Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Gets $67M Navy Contract to Produce Additional Target Base Vehicles

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $67.6 million contract to manufacture an 11th batch of GQM-163A Coyote sea skimming target base vehicles. Orbital ATK will provide 24 full-rate production base vehicles and spares foreign military sales to USN and Qatar as well as deliver D6AC long lead steel to Japan, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The company will receive […] More

  • Kratos Gets State Dept OK to Market Tactical UAS in Europe, Asia Pacific; Steve Fendley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets State Dept OK to Market Tactical UAS in Europe, Asia Pacific; Steve Fendley Comments

    The State Department has authorized Kratos Defense and Security Solutions to market a tactical unmanned aerial system in select countries within Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Mako is designed to operate independently or in conjunction with other UAS platforms to support manned aircraft in a contested airspace environment, Kratos said Tuesday. The UAS has a capacity to carry […] More

  • Iridium Names 6 New Providers of Certus Broadband Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Names 6 New Providers of Certus Broadband Service

    Iridium has unveiled the next batch of six companies that will offer the Iridium Certus satellite broadband service for ground-based mobile operations beginning mid-2018. Certus is powered by the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation and will be integrated with Thales‘ MissionLINK terminal to support the off-the-grid missions of public safety, utility, oil and gas, military and non-government […] More

  • Inmarsat's Tactical Satellite Service Gets MSUA Mobility Innovation Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Tactical Satellite Service Gets MSUA Mobility Innovation Award

    Inmarsat has received recognition from the Mobile Satellite Users Association for the company’s L-band service offering designed to support beyond line-of-sight tactical communications. The company said Wednesday its L-band Tactical Satellite service won the 2018 Mobility Innovation Award in the “Top Government Mobility Satcom Innovation” category. “We are proud to win this award for the third consecutive year as it is a testament […] More

  • Joseph Craver Succeeds Dennis Lauchner as CSS CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joseph Craver Succeeds Dennis Lauchner as CSS CEO

    Joseph Craver, who joined CSS two years ago, has been appointed CEO of the Fairfax, Virginia-based government services provider. He succeeds Dennis Lauchner, who will remain with CSS as vice chairman of its board, and will be the second CEO in the company’s 30‐year history, according to the press release. Craver held a 24-year career at Leidos and Science […] More

  • CenturyLink Obtains DOJ Approval to Sell Level 3 Metro Network Assets to Syringa Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Obtains DOJ Approval to Sell Level 3 Metro Network Assets to Syringa Networks

    The Justice Department has given CenturyLink the green light to sell certain metro network assets of Level 3 Communications in Boise, Idaho, to fiber-optic networking services provider Syringa Networks. Monroe, Louisiana-based CenturyLink said Tuesday the sale is still subject to other customary closing conditions and comes nearly five months after the telecommunications firm completed its $34 billion acquisition of […] More

  • 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