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  • Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award

    Leidos will continue to provide engineering services for ground processing of NASA spaceflight cargo under a potential $159 million contract the agency originally announced in mid-September. The Cargo Mission Contract 3 covers the use of multiple technology platforms for the company to pack cargo NASA would send to the International Space Station, Leidos said Thursday. Angie Heise, a […] More

  • BAE Updates C4I Systems of 5,000th Mine-Resistant Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates C4I Systems of 5,000th Mine-Resistant Vehicle

    BAE Systems has updated command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on the 5,000th mine-resistant tactical vehicle that company built for U.S. military and allied forces. The company said Thursday it performed the C4I upgrades through the Tactical Vehicle Engineering and Prototyping Support Services program managed by the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic. The program […] More

  • CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator

    CyrusOne has formed a strategic partnership with GDS Holdings and agreed to acquire an 8 percent stake in the China-based data center operator for approximately $100 million. The agreement seeks to drive synergy between the two companies and allows both parties to exchange strategies in data center design and construction, operations, sales and marketing, and supply chain customer […] More

  • Eric Joseph Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Joseph Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award

    ExecutiveBiz is pleased to name Eric Joseph, Partner-in-Charge at Heidrick & Struggles, as a recipient of its 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award. J. Eric Joseph is the partner in charge in Heidrick & Struggles’ Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Global Technology & Services Practice and serves as the sector leader for […] More

  • General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities

    A General Atomics subsidiary and South Korea-based airborne systems manufacturer  Huneed Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential opportunities for collaboration between the two companies. Both parties seek to identify common manufacturing, technology and strategic interests as General Atomics Aeronautics Systems Inc. considers Huneed as its possible in-country technology supplier, GA-ASI said Wednesday. “We are […] More

  • Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems

    The U.S. Army has announced it plans to buy up to 1,800 units of L3 Technologies-built upgrade kits to modernize the service branch’s mine detection platform. A justification and approval notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Army requires kits to address AN/PSS-14 maintainability, performance, reliability and sustainment requirements. The service branch aims to convert its current mine detection […] More

  • Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected Redwood City, California-based Box to provide a cloud content management platform for FDA’s information technology modernization project. Sonny Hashmi, managing director of Box’s global government business, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the company will help FDA digitize and automate processes that leverage content portal for agency personnel to collaborate and exchange […] More

  • Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments

    Iron Mountain has received a potential five-year, $6.7 million contract to store and manage approximately 4.6 million patent files for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday it will capture, pack and transfer all USPTO records from the agency’s current data repository to an Iron Mountain storage facility built to comply with National Archives […] More

  • Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya‘s government solutions business has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its unified communications product line through a partnership with collab9. The Avaya Aura Communication Manager product portfolio is now available to government agencies as a FedRAMP-compliant offering with an authority to operate at the moderate level, Avaya said Thursday. Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya […] More

  • Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule

    Capt. Emily Grabowski, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, has said the service branch believes Raytheon could supply enough Small Diameter Bomb II units for initial deployment on the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft by 2019, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Grabowski told Bloomberg in an email the company “has worked diligently to address technical discoveries and is implementing the necessary factory infrastructure improvements […] More

  • SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase

    Kinetics Drive Solutions will serve as a subcontractor of Science Applications International Corp. on the production and deployment phase of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Amphibious Assault Vehicle Survivability Upgrade program. SAIC received an initial low-rate initial production contract to deliver additional AAV SU platforms equipped with Kinetics-built MD500 marine drive power-take-off and InfiniDrive HMX3000 transmission […] More

  • Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities

    Leonardo has wrapped up the delivery of a cyber monitoring and response service to multiple NATO locations under an expanded contract. The company said Wednesday it worked with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to deploy the NATO Cyber Incident Response Capability – Full Operational Capability service to approximately 70,000 NATO users. In August 2015, Leonardo received an expansion contract to […] More