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  • TSI to Supply Testing Equipment for Army Respiratory Protective Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TSI to Supply Testing Equipment for Army Respiratory Protective Devices

    TSI has received a $13 million contract to supply protection assessment test systems for the U.S. Army to evaluate respiratory protective devices that soldiers use. The company said Thursday it will provide PortaCount 8020M systems to support the donning and fitting of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense gas masks for Army personnel. Troy Tillman, business director of TSI, said […] More

  • Buchanan & Edwards to Provide IT Infrastructure Support to US Library of Congress - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Buchanan & Edwards to Provide IT Infrastructure Support to US Library of Congress

    Buchanan & Edwards has received a contract to provide information technology infrastructure and integration services for the U.S. Library of Congress to support the federal institution’s migration to Microsoft‘s ServiceNow platform. BE said Thursday migrating from the IT Service Management system to ServiceNow will work to help the library simplify its process for managing technology applications. Dennis Kelly, BE president […] More

  • Blue Marble's Geographic Information System Joins USACE Approved Software List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Marble’s Geographic Information System Joins USACE Approved Software List

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has included Blue Marble Geographics‘ geographic information system and light detection and ranging module to the Corps’ list of accredited software products. Blue Marble said Thursday its Global Mapper GIS platform and the accompanying LiDAR module can now be used by USACE military and civilian personnel worldwide. Global Mapper is designed to […] More

  • Unisys Introduces IT Services Suite to Support Agencies’ Digital Govt Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Introduces IT Services Suite to Support Agencies’ Digital Govt Efforts

    Unisys has unveiled a set of software and information technology service offerings designed to support digital transformation programs of government agencies at both state and local levels. The Digital Government Accelerators family of IT services works to help agencies facilitate delivery of digital services to citizens through migration of applications and data to cloud environments and establishment of […] More

  • Elbit Systems Links Air Training Simulators via Cloud-Based Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Links Air Training Simulators via Cloud-Based Environment

    Elbit Systems has tested a cloud-based service that worked to connect two air training simulators through a common simulation environment. The company said Wednesday the synthetic training platform builds on the results of a customer-funded research and development project, where Elbit linked two different types of trainers by providing cloud-based simulation. The new service currently supports real time interaction […] More

  • Esri Partners With Airbus to Enhance Satellite Photos, Online Mapping - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Partners With Airbus to Enhance Satellite Photos, Online Mapping

    Esri has partnered with an Airbus Group business unit to incorporate the latter’s elevation data to Esri’s online maps. Airbus Defence and Space‘s WorldDEM4Ortho elevation data will be added to Esri’s ArcGIS Online Living Atlas of the World to support online end-user applications and app developers who need elevation information, Esri said Monday. Sean Breyer, Esri […] More

  • Steve Gizinski: Inmarsat Develops L-band Offering for In-Flight Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Gizinski: Inmarsat Develops L-band Offering for In-Flight Connectivity

    Inmarsat has entered testing stages for a new modem that will work to provide L-band connectivity in-flight. Steve Gizinski, vice president of special programs at Inmarsat’s government business unit, wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the company expects to demonstrate the WiSL Aero Modem at an operational level “soon.” The modem is designed to […] More

  • DFAS Taps Kearney and Co. to Audit Defense Health Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DFAS Taps Kearney and Co. to Audit Defense Health Program

    Kearney and Co. has won a potential $46.6 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to conduct a financial statement audit of the Defense Health Program. The labor-hour contract has an 18-month base period plus three one-year options, the Defense Department said Thursday. DFAS received two quotes via a competitive acquisition process and […] More

  • Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $50.1 million contract to manufacture nose shell assemblies and transducer arrays for the U.S. Navy‘s MK 48 torpedo. The company said Thursday it will produce 45 torpedo components under the contract’s base term worth approximately $9.6 million. Northrop would build up to 180 additional components over five years if the […] More

  • McAfee Evaluates Unisys-Built Operating System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McAfee Evaluates Unisys-Built Operating System

    A business unit of McAfee has completed a two-month evaluation of a Unisys-made operating system designed to help enterprise clients manage high-volume computing tasks. Unisys said Thursday that McAfee’s Foundstone Services business has rated the ClearPath OS 2200 platform “highly secure” and the resource protection capacity of the system “exceptional.” During the assessment, Foundstone found the software works to […] More

  • NIAP Certifies RSA ID & Access Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIAP Certifies RSA ID & Access Mgmt Platform

    Dell Technologies‘ RSA subsidiary has obtained Common Criteria certification from the National Security Agency-managed National Information Assurance Partnership for the company’s identity and access management platform. RSA said Wednesday its Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.0 platform has met requirements outlined in version 2.1 of NIAP’s Protection Profile for Enterprise Security Management-Identity and Credential Management. The platform is designed to help […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Awarded 5-Year Army Satcom Tech Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Awarded 5-Year Army Satcom Tech Sustainment Contract

    Leonardo DRS has received a potential five-year, $15.7 million contract to sustain a two-way satellite communications system the U.S. Army uses to receive and transmit sensitive data. The company will implement engineering change proposals to address obsolescence and provide engineering logistics services for the service branch’s AN/URC-145A(V) Joint Tactical Terminal-Integrated Broadcast Service, the Defense Department said […] More