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  • DTRA Wants Info on Potential Sources of Chemical & Biological Defense Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTRA Wants Info on Potential Sources of Chemical & Biological Defense Platform

    The Defense Threat Reduction Agency seeks information on vendors that can maintain and update the agency’s chemical and biological defense platform called Biosurveillance Ecosystem, or BSVE. DTRA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice that respondents should provide information on their capacity to maintain BSVE and upgrade the cloud-based system to support the integration of multiple chemical and […] More

  • BAE Gets Army Contract Funds for Armored Vehicle Integration Design Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Gets Army Contract Funds for Armored Vehicle Integration Design Work

    BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received $15.2 million in contract funds to modify an integration design for the U.S. Army‘s future Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle platform. The Defense Department said Monday the company will work to accommodate evolving Army network software and hardware necessary to be integrated into the AMPV design. The service branch […] More

  • AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office

    AE Strategies has won a potential five-year, $20.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of professional services to the Department of the Navy‘s Office of Civilian Human Resources. The company will help DoN OCHR formulate policy and guidance, oversee services and develop and implement information technology plans under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in fiscal year 2020 to design […] More

  • Hill Vet Kevin Cummins Assumes Tech VP Role at PSC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hill Vet Kevin Cummins Assumes Tech VP Role at PSC

    Kevin Cummins, a veteran staffer in the U.S. Senate, has taken a new role as vice president of the Professional Services Council‘s technology practice. Cummins most recently served as senior legislative assistant for Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) and helped craft technology-related legislation such as the Spectrum Relocation Fund Act and Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act. Prior […] More

  • Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum

    Vencore‘s research arm has showcased three internet-of-things technologies to a group of U.S. government engineers, scientists and technologies at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s 2017 Innovators’ Showcase held in McLean, Virginia. Vencore Labs offered insights into its research efforts in IoT areas such as low-power networks, telematics and smart grid during the forum, the company said […] More

  • CSRA's Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption

    CSRA will hold a conference call on July 17 with the investment community and government information technology professionals to discuss cloud adoption within the U.S. federal government. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, will facilitate the conference call alongside federal practice leaders from Microsoft and ServiceNow, CSRA said Monday. The call will be publicly accessible through […] More

  • Noblis Awarded $3B National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis Awarded $3B National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) IDIQ Contract

    Noblis, Inc., a nonprofit provider of science, technology, and strategy services to government agencies, has been awarded a $3 billion (ceiling across all five ProTech domains) IDIQ award contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA.) The contract runs through 2022 with a two- year base period and three one- year options and provides program […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation works to help track the location of commercial aircraft across trans-oceanic routes in support of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Transportation System program, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. Desch said the company has equipped its Iridium NEXT satellites with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receivers designed to enable planes to communicate […] More

  • ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $39 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Combat Direction Systems Activity to help maintain systems on U.S. Navy ships. The company said Friday it will deliver support to NSWCDD’s documentation management function and computer build and installation program under the contract. CDSA works to update and maintain systems on aircraft […] More

  • IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems

    Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM’s federal business, has said the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform works to help the U.S. Army predict mechanical issues in its fleet of Stryker vehicles as part of a pilot program that started in mid-2016. Gordy told FCW in an interview published Friday the Watson supercomputer has helped the service branch […] More