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  • Air Force Picks Harris for B-1 Systems Engineering Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Harris for B-1 Systems Engineering Support IDIQ

    Harris Corp. has received a potential five-year, $9.8 million contract to provide sustaining engineering support services for the U.S. Air Force’s testing laboratory for B-1 reprogrammable electronic warfare systems and defensive avionics platforms. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers support for special test equipment of the service branch’s 53rd electronic warfare group and B-52 electronic warfare mission […] More

  • DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services

    Data Monitor Systems has won a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract from the  Defense Logistics Agency to provide fuel management services to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the contract contains four base years, one five-year option and six months of extension beyond the ordering period. The company is scheduled to finish work by Dec. 31, 2020. DLA received eight bids for the […] More

  • Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force's Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force’s Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems

    Atlantic CommTech Corp. has won a $36.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize the service branch’s Weapon Storage and Security System and Alarm Communication and Display. The Defense Department said Friday the company will perform sustainment upgrades to the WS3 cryptographic platform that works to encrypt the system’s alarm data. ACT-Corp will also replace obsolete components and the […] More

  • Forbes, Bessemer Venture Partners Recognize Cloudera on List of Top 100 Cloud Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forbes, Bessemer Venture Partners Recognize Cloudera on List of Top 100 Cloud Companies

    Cloudera has been recognized in Forbes and Bessemer Venture Partners‘ 2016 top 100 list of private cloud companies that lead the cloud technology revolution as well as the rising stars in the field. Cloudera said Wednesday it has ranked 5th on the Forbes Cloud 100 list due to the company’s revenue growth and its Apache Hadoop-based data management and […] More

  • EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts

    Chantilly, Virginia-based EmeSec has formed an advisory board that consists of information technology, business development and government professionals in the cybersecurity industry. The cloud computing, security and engineering services company said Wednesday its new advisory board will work to provide perspective on market and business development opportunities, macro-economic trends as well as EmeSec’s customer service and go-to-market strategies. “As cloud cybersecurity services and […] More

  • NCEO Lists Janus Global Operations as 16th Largest Employee-Owned Company in US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCEO Lists Janus Global Operations as 16th Largest Employee-Owned Company in US

    Janus Global Operations has landed the 16th spot on the National Center for Employee Ownership‘s list of 100 largest U.S. companies with employee-ownership plans. JGO said Friday the company ranked 41st in 2015 on NCEO’s Employee Ownership 100 list — a ranking of the largest U.S.-based companies according to Employee Stock Ownership Plans or plans wherein 50 percent or […] More

  • OGSystems Lands Spot on 2016 Inc. 500|5000 List; Omar Balkissoon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Lands Spot on 2016 Inc. 500|5000 List; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    OGSystems has been included in the 2016 Inc. 500|5000 list that recognizes the country’s fastest-growing private companies based on percentage revenue growth when comparing 2012 to 2015. OGSystems has been included on this prestigious list for the fifth consecutive year and ranked 2122nd on the list composed of companies that averaged a 433 percent growth rate within a […] More

  • Orbit Logic to Update Planning Software for DigitalGlobe WorldView Direct Access Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbit Logic to Update Planning Software for DigitalGlobe WorldView Direct Access Program

    Orbit Logic has updated its Direct Access Facility Collection Planning Systems software that works to help DigitalGlobe‘s international Direct Access Program partners task and receive imagery from WorldView satellites. The DAF CPS platform has been updated to cover WorldView-4 satellite that is scheduled to launch this month as well as the existing GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, WorldView-2 and WorldView-3, Orbit Logic said Wednesday. Orbit Logic has provided collection planning […] More

  • AECOM to Design Indiana's Truck Parking Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM to Design Indiana’s Truck Parking Info Mgmt System

    AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

  • Cloudera, Niara Enter Cybersecurity Tech Reseller Agreement; Tim Stevens Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera, Niara Enter Cybersecurity Tech Reseller Agreement; Tim Stevens Comments

    Cloudera has enlisted user and entity behavior analytics company Niara as a reseller of the former’s Hadoop-powered cybersecurity platform in an effort to help clients detect advanced threats. As a Cloudera Enterprise reseller, Niara will apply its machine learning models across various dimensions of user behavior and send a forensic record of the affected entities to a security analyst […] More

  • GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts

    The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More