Latest stories

  • SpaceX Completes Falcon Heavy Initial Static Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    SpaceX Completes Falcon Heavy Initial Static Fire Test

    SpaceX on Wednesday carried out the first static fire test of its Falcon Heavy rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its initial launch that CEO Elon Musk said could occur in a “week or so,” Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. The company conducted a hold-down firing test of the rocket’s 27 Merlin 1D main engines […] More

  • Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program

    Galois has received a multiyear, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop methods and tools to secure hardware for consumer, government and commercial use. The company said Wednesday it will lead a team project under the first phase of DARPA’s System Security Integrated through Hardware and Firmware program that seeks to address hardware vulnerabilities exploited […] More

  • Jacobs Develops VR Environment for Welsh Highway Update Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Jacobs Develops VR Environment for Welsh Highway Update Program

    The Welsh government has received a Jacobs Engineering Group-built virtual reality visualization environment which will be used to aid construction work on two sections of the South Wales-based A465 Heads of Valley highway project. Jacobs said Wednesday the VR platform adds to the company’s support for the A465 project which also includes road widening assistance […] More

  • StreetShares Raises $23M in Funding Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    StreetShares Raises $23M in Funding Round

    A round of Series B financing has pulled in $23 million for StreetShares, a financial services provider to government contractors. The company said Wednesday it secured a $20 million investment from Rotunda Capital Partners and a total of $3 million from existing investors, such as veteran-focused venture firm Stony Lonesome Group. Mark Rockefeller, StreetShares CEO, said the investments will […] More

  • Turkey's Aselsan Lands Work for Serial Production of Military Air Defense Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Turkey’s Aselsan Lands Work for Serial Production of Military Air Defense Systems

    Turkey-based Aselsan will begin the serial production of towed guns, air-defense systems, airburst ammunition and a fire-control center for the Turkish military under a contract with the country’s defense procurement agency, Defense News reported Jan. 18. The report said Aselsan’s indigenous air-defense gun system platoon is programmed to perform low-altitude air-defense operations to counter air-to-ground and cruise missiles, […] More

  • Sera-Brynn Signs Agreement to Exchange Information With DHS Branch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Sera-Brynn Signs Agreement to Exchange Information With DHS Branch

    Sera-Brynn has signed a two-year cooperative research and development agreement to facilitate information exchange with a cybersecurity laboratory branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The CRADA serves as grounds in which Sera-Brynn can jointly conduct R&D with DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, seeking to support infrastructure, networks and systems […] More

  • Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in , , ,

    Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO

    A Cisco-built cloud security offering has received an authority to operate at the moderate level from the program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Nick Michaelides, vice president of Cisco’s U.S. federal sales organization, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Cloudlock platform also met eligibility requirements for impact level 2 […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell Secureworks Threat Intell Products, Services to Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Carahsoft to Resell Secureworks Threat Intell Products, Services to Public Sector

    Carahsoft and Dell Technologies‘ Secureworks subsidiary have partnered to offer a suite of threat intelligence products and services to the public sector government contract acquisition vehicles. Secureworks said Wednesday its offerings are designed to help organizations avoid breaches and are now available to agencies through Carahsoft’s positions on the General Services Administration Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract. Carahsoft […] More

  • Lexmark Unveils Self-Service Documentation Kiosk for Govt Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Lexmark Unveils Self-Service Documentation Kiosk for Govt Agencies

    Imaging systems vendor Lexmark has rolled out a kiosk offering designed to help government agencies provide documentation assistance to citizens. MFP Kiosk is a self-service platform that guides citizens through paperwork and documentation processes, Lexmark said Wednesday. The company incorporated its “smart” multifunction tools and an intuitive touchscreen interface into the kiosk system. “The slow, manual processes associated with […] More

  • FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform

    A CSRA-developed online registry platform has helped the Federal Aviation Administration document more than 1 million owners of civilian drones throughout the U.S. CSRA said Wednesday more than 870,000 of the registered drones are from hobbyists while the remaining 122,000 registrations are for individually documented commercial and public drones. The company helped FAA design, build and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in ,

    Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech

    Orbital ATK has received a contract to help the U.S. Navy update the configuration of an extended range variant of an airborne tactical missile system designed to engage and destroy enemy air defenses. The company said Wednesday it aims to mature the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range design ahead of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. AARGM-ER is […] More

  • Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in , ,

    Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $1 million delivery order modification to provide support services to the U.S. Army project manager for tactical networks. The company said Wednesday its command and control technologies group will support communications assets for U.S. expeditionary unit readiness. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO at ComTech, said the company aims to deliver  communications systems to the military’s […] More