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  • Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia's I-66 Toll System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia’s I-66 Toll System

    Parsons has secured a contract to provide management services for a tolling system design and installation project within a 10-mile segment of Interstate 66 in Virginia. The company said Monday the project encompasses work to install an all-lane system for toll collections from I-495 in the Capital Beltway to U.S. Route 29 in Rosslyn to help address traffic congestion in and out of Washington, […] More

  • Georgia Tech Purchases Marietta Real Estate from Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Georgia Tech Purchases Marietta Real Estate from Lockheed

    Georgia Tech has purchased four buildings and 52 acres from Lockheed Martin‘s south campus in Marietta to function as additional applied research facilities for the university. Lockheed said Monday that the new facilities will help to manage crowding in Georgia Tech’s other five buildings in Cobb County as its research enterprise expands. Tim Lee, Cobb County commission chairman, said the […] More

  • Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Raymond Named Chief Strategy Officer of Octo Consulting

    Mike Raymond, a 37-year government information technology market veteran and former senior vice president at Dynanet Corp., has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief strategy officer of the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based digital services provider. He will oversee Octo Consulting’s business development and growth strategies in his new position and will report directly to CEO and founder Mehul Sanghani, […] More

  • Navy Orders Harris Electronic Warfare Decoy Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Harris Electronic Warfare Decoy Tech; Ed Zoiss Comments

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $27 million in maritime electronic warfare payloads from Harris Corp. in support of a Naval Research Laboratory program to implement decoy technology for the service branch. Harris said Monday that it will present an update to the Nulka decoy used by the Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as provide testing and engineering services in line […] More

  • American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments

    The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded American Systems a five-year, $10 million task order to extend its integrated test, evaluation and analytical support services to the U.S. Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland. American Systems said Monday its serviecs will include program management, operational tests and market research-early acquisition program test support to the Defense Department‘s Operational Medicine […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Lands ScanEagle Drone Support Task Order With Coast Guard; Ryan Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Lands ScanEagle Drone Support Task Order With Coast Guard; Ryan Hartman Comments

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $12.3 million task order to provide support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system to use onboard the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter ship. The Coast Guard awarded the task order under a Naval Air Systems Command multiple-award contract, Insitu said Monday. The contract has a base period of one year worth $4.5 […] More

  • CorasCloud, HumanTouch Deploy Project & Portfolio Mgmt Tool at DISA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CorasCloud, HumanTouch Deploy Project & Portfolio Mgmt Tool at DISA

    CorasCloud has partnered with HumanTouch to implement the former’s CORASManage project and portfolio management platform across the Defense Information Systems Agency to support more than 1,100 users. CORASManage is known as the Management Information and Decision Support system within DISA and works to provide management support for program cost, schedule and performance as well as situational awareness of a program’s […] More

  • Kaspersky Lab Report: 2015-2016 Saw Increase in Ransomware Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaspersky Lab Report: 2015-2016 Saw Increase in Ransomware Attacks

    A Kaspersky Lab report says the total number of people who experienced ransomware-related attacks worldwide between April 2015 and March 2016 climbed by 17.7 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. The company said Wednesday the percentage of users who encountered ransomware more than once reached 4.34 percent in the 2015-2016 period, up from 3.63 […] More

  • NAVSEA Starts New Night Vision Goggle Tech Integration for Expeditionary Combat Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NAVSEA Starts New Night Vision Goggle Tech Integration for Expeditionary Combat Command

    The Naval Sea Systems Command has started to transition a new suite of “Wide Field of View” night vision goggles to personnel within the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. The U.S. Navy said Friday the WFOV NVG units are designed to double view fields of traditional night vision models and support, depth perception, situational awareness and movement speed for warfighters through 80-degree […] More

  • Reuters: India's Defense Agency OKs Proposed $750M Buy of BAE Howitzers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: India’s Defense Agency OKs Proposed $750M Buy of BAE Howitzers

    India’s defense procurement officials have approved a proposal to acquire $750 million in BAE Systems-built M777 Howitzer artillery guns through a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Reuters reported Saturday. Aditya Kalra writes that approximately 120 of the 145 Howitzers that India plans to buy will be assembled in the country. The report said India will send the proposal to the […] More

  • Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments

    Raytheon has conducted a “run for record” test on network connectivity technology for the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellite constellation. The company said Monday it tested the mission capability and cyber control functions of the Black Wide Area Network that is scheduled to be deployed in 2017 as part of OCX blocks 1 and 2. “This latest milestone shows […] More

  • ISS Receives Air Force Software Maintenance Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ISS Receives Air Force Software Maintenance Support Extension

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Intelligent Software Solutions a one-year, $12.2 million task order to continue to help the service branch maintain U.S. military software installed worldwide, the Colorado Springs Business Journal reported Thursday. Amber Baillie writes ISS will also extend its software and maintenance support for the U.S. Central Command, NATO and the Air Force’s Pacific operations. The contract represents the […] More