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  • Former DOT CIO Richard McKinney Joins AECOM as Enterprise IT Strategy VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DOT CIO Richard McKinney Joins AECOM as Enterprise IT Strategy VP

    Richard McKinney, formerly chief information officer at the U.S. Transportation Department, has joined AECOM’s management services group as vice president of enterprise information technology strategy. McKinney will oversee the delivery of AECOM’s systems engineering and information platforms and services to clients, the company said Wednesday. John Vollmer, president of AECOM’s management services group and an […] More

  • Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium

    Cubic is part of a public-private consortium that has received a 10-year, $41.3 million grant from the government of Australia to develop smart transport and mobility technologies. Cubic said Tuesday it aims to build multimodal systems intended to help address Australia’s transportation challenges through the iMOVE Cooperative Research Center — a consortium comprised of technology companies, academic institutions and government agencies. CRC will focus on […] More

  • Carahsoft Includes Optensity's Incident Response App on GSA Schedule Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Includes Optensity’s Incident Response App on GSA Schedule Contract

    Carahsoft Technology will offer an Optensity application to the government sector via the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 contract vehicle in an effort to help agencies orchestrate incident response and recovery measures for infrastructure and cyber operations. Optensity developed its >rapid response for Splunk app for users to compose custom alert actions meant to facilitate system-wide incident response strategies without the need for […] More

  • Burns & McDonell-Designed C2 Facility to Support Navy's Maritime Surveillance Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Burns & McDonell-Designed C2 Facility to Support Navy’s Maritime Surveillance Operations

    The U.S. Navy has opened a command-and-control complex, designed by Burns & McDonnell, to support broad area maritime surveillance operations at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida Burns & McDonnell said Tuesday the complex houses a tactical operations center for manned P-8A surveillance aircraft and a MQ-4C Triton squadron that supports the Navy’s unmanned aerial vehicle program. The facility is built to comply […] More

  • Vencore Lands $980M NGA Analytical, Technical Support IDIQ Spot; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Lands $980M NGA Analytical, Technical Support IDIQ Spot; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has secured a prime position on a potential five-year, $980 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical support services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The company said Tuesday it will help NGA integrate analytics services and GEOINT sources to track and build up collection strategies as well as simulation and modeling operations under the multiple-award contract for […] More

  • ReedGroup Wins DoD Contract to Provide Clinical Medical Guidelines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReedGroup Wins DoD Contract to Provide Clinical Medical Guidelines

    ReedGroup has won a contract from the Defense Department to provide clinical medical guidelines for all U.S. military branches. The Department of the Navy‘s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery chose ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines offering through a competitive procurement process, the company said Tuesday. Joe Guerriero, senior vice president of ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines business, said the company seeks to help military […] More

  • Accenture to Update TSA Enterprise IT Applications Under Potential $64M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture to Update TSA Enterprise IT Applications Under Potential $64M Contract

    Accenture‘s federal services business has received a potential four-year, $64 million contract to help the Transportation Security Administration update and maintain more than 70 enterprise information technology applications through the use of agile and DevOps methodologies. The company said Tuesday it will provide a range of IT services in support of TSA’s current technology environment and modification efforts on the agency’s core […] More

  • Boeing Receives $50M Navy Super Hornet Service Life Extension Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Receives $50M Navy Super Hornet Service Life Extension Contract

    Boeing has secured a $49.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help extend the service life of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft beyond its original operational life of 6,000 flight hours. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will perform work under the Service Life Assessment Program and Service Life Extension Program through April 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri and […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson 'Hopes' Congress Reaches Agreement Over Fiscal 2017 Defense Budget - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson ‘Hopes’ Congress Reaches Agreement Over Fiscal 2017 Defense Budget

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said during a conference call Tuesday that she expects Congress to reach a defense budget deal for the remaining months of fiscal 2017, Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday. Marco Santana writes Hewson added lawmakers should work to ensure a continuous flow of funds to all military branches. “We, as a nation, need to recognize these threats and […] More

  • Intel, Carnegie Mellon Team Up on Cloud-Based Video Analytics Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel, Carnegie Mellon Team Up on Cloud-Based Video Analytics Research Program

    Intel has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to work on a three-year, $4.1 million program to research and develop analytics tools for public officials, businesses and consumers to obtain insights from large volumes of online video content. The company and CMU will conduct the research program at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud […] More

  • Sensofusion to Develop Counter-UAS Mobile System for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sensofusion to Develop Counter-UAS Mobile System for Marine Corps

    The U.S. Marine Corps and the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental have awarded Sensofusion a contract to further develop a mobile platform designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems. Sensofusion said Thursday its Airfence mobile system will serve as the core of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s mobile counter-UAS system as well as support Marines’ efforts to […] More

  • DARPA Taps PARC-Led Team to Develop Computational Framework for Product Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps PARC-Led Team to Develop Computational Framework for Product Design

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Xerox’s PARC subsidiary to lead a team to create a new computational model designed to eliminate limitations in computer-aided design technology platforms and advance digital manufacturing processes. PARC said Tuesday it will work with Oregon State University and Intact Solutions on the Fabricating with Interoperable Engineering, pLanning, Design […] More