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  • Huntington Ingalls Segment Gets NAVSEA Engineering Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Segment Gets NAVSEA Engineering Support Task Order

    A business segment of Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential five-year, $40 million task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command for engineering support services to NAVSEA’s Combat Direction Systems Activity-Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The company said Monday its technical solutions business will provide global readiness and training engineering services intended to help the […] More

  • DLA Preps Network Infrastructure Upgrade RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Preps Network Infrastructure Upgrade RFP

    The Defense Logistics Agency plans to issue a request for proposals on a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for network modernization support services by July 12. DLA will launch the small business set-aside procurement effort to identify contractors that can help the agency modify and update its telecommunications and network infrastructure, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. The contract will […] More

  • Former DoD Acquisition Chief Frank Kendall Joins Leidos Board; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DoD Acquisition Chief Frank Kendall Joins Leidos Board; Roger Krone Comments

    Frank Kendall, former undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the Defense Department, has been appointed to Leidos‘ board of directors. Leidos said Wednesday Kendall currently serves as executive in residence at Arlington, Virginia-based aerospace and defense advisory firm Renaissance Strategic Advisors. “Frank brings more than 40 years of experience in national security affairs, acquisition, engineering […] More

  • Alan Estevez Joins Deloitte’s Federal Practice; Nathan Houser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Estevez Joins Deloitte’s Federal Practice; Nathan Houser Comments

    Alan Estevez joined Deloitte Consulting LLP’s federal practice as a national security strategy and logistics executive, where he will work with a range of clients to help innovate and transform their acquisition, logistics, supply chain and sustainment operations, the company announced Tuesday. “Estevez’s 36 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Defense and leadership […] More

  • Maximus, Interactions Unveil Virtual Assistant Tech Offering for Federal Sector; Tom Romeo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maximus, Interactions Unveil Virtual Assistant Tech Offering for Federal Sector; Tom Romeo Comments

    Maximus has partnered with Interactions to offer a virtual assistant technology designed to help federal agencies communicate with citizens they serve. The Maximus Intelligent Assistant platform works to facilitate transactions such as general inquiries, appeal status, benefits eligibility, program awareness, authentication, registration and enrollment via a phone, text or the web, Maximus said Tuesday. Interactions’ artificial intelligence-based Adaptive Understanding technology […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit Wins Denmark Armored Patrol Vehicle Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unit Wins Denmark Armored Patrol Vehicle Supply Contract

    Denmark’s defense acquisition and logistic organization has awarded General Dynamics‘ European Land Systems business a contract to supply armored patrol vehicles to the Danish army. GDELS will deliver an initial batch of 36 EAGLE 4×4 vehicles in 2018 in support of Denmark’s APV program, General Dynamics said Monday. The contract includes options for the company to provide electronic […] More

  • Thales e-Security's Wayne Lewandowski: Federal Govt Should Invest in Enterprise Asset Protection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales e-Security’s Wayne Lewandowski: Federal Govt Should Invest in Enterprise Asset Protection

    Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said he believes the U.S. government should shift cybersecurity spending from endpoint or network security to enterprise-wide protection of possible targets such as data. Lewandowski told Federal News Radio in an interview that aired Monday the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report shows cyber budgets increased by 61 […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Communication, IT Governance Key to Agencies’ Tech Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Communication, IT Governance Key to Agencies’ Tech Modernization Efforts

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, has said federal agencies should promote communication and reassess current information technology governance frameworks in an effort to advance technology modernization and comply with the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act. Puvvada wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Monday that the re-evaluation of IT governance structures could help build up the […] More

  • Boeing, Verizon Invest in AI Tech Developer SparkCognition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Verizon Invest in AI Tech Developer SparkCognition

    The venture businesses of Boeing and Verizon have invested in SparkCognition to help the Austin, Texas-based company further develop information technology applications through artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. Boeing said Monday its ventures arm HorizonX joined an investment group, led by Verizon Ventures, to support a $32 million initial funding round for SparkCognition. SparkCognition develops machine learning and analytics tools […] More

  • Lena Furci: Battelle to Help Update Army's Combat Support Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lena Furci: Battelle to Help Update Army’s Combat Support Equipment

    Battelle has received a five-year, $20 million contract to help the U.S. Army update and address sustainment challenges related to its military support technologies. The nonprofit company said Monday it will carry out work for the service branch’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. Warren, Michigan-based TARDEC develops and sustains critical equipment the Defense Department deploys to military […] More

  • Northrop Receives Astro Aerospace-Built Boom Assemblies for NASA’s Webb Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Astro Aerospace-Built Boom Assemblies for NASA’s Webb Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has received the mid-boom assemblies from its Astro Aerospace subsidiary for integration with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Astro Aerospace designed and built two boom assemblies designed to deploy the telescope’s sunshield component once in orbit, Northrop said Monday. Astro Aerospace delivered the assemblies to Northrop’s Redondo Beach, California-based facility after it completed […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Help Army Implement Foreign Language Translation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Help Army Implement Foreign Language Translation Platform

    A Raytheon subsidiary has received a $4 million contract to provide one-year automatic speech and optical character recognition, text-to-speech and machine translation software licenses to the U.S. Army. Raytheon BBN Technologies will also help the Army’s Machine Foreign Language Translation System Program Office field a system for military personnel to communicate with Arabic and Pashto speakers from Iraq as well as understand […] More