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  • August Schell to Help Create Sourcing Vehicle for DON Software Licensing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    August Schell to Help Create Sourcing Vehicle for DON Software Licensing Program

    The Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded August Schell a potential six-year, $41.2 million contract to help establish a strategic sourcing method for the Department of the Navy to procure Axway software licenses and related maintenance services. The Defense Department said Friday the company will support DON’s Enterprise Software Licensing program aimed at simplifying the acquisition and management of ESL agreements […] More

  • Applied Technology Added to Navy Signature Tech Office Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Applied Technology Added to Navy Signature Tech Office Support IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Applied Technology a spot on a potential five-year, $48.5 million contract for scientific, engineering and programmatic research and development services to the military branch’s Signature Technology Office. Work will take place at the company’s facility in King George, Virginia, and at the Naval Research Laboratory through March 4, 2023, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Engility Holds 11th Annual Employee Trade Show; Gay Porter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Holds 11th Annual Employee Trade Show; Gay Porter Comments

    Engility brought together more than 500 professionals to share, discuss, experience and test multiple technology platforms at the company’s employee trade show held Thursday. The company said Thursday its systems engineers along with aerospace, counterterrorism and defense specialists were present during the annual summit that featured Engility’s artificial intelligence technology Synthetic Analyst and data analytics platforms MetaSift and […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed, DoD in Talks Over F-35 Lot 11 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed, DoD in Talks Over F-35 Lot 11

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company and the Defense Department are engaged in a “complex negotiation” over the next contract to build the 11th batch of 130 F-35 fighter jets. “Our government customer needs to understand the cost,” Hewson told CNBC in an interview posted Thursday. “We need to make sure that we […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK and $86.4 million contract to manufacture  armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for Afghanistan’s air force. Orbital ATK will provide AC-208 aircraft under the “pseudo” foreign military sales contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Contract work will occur in Fort Worth, Texas through June 9, 2019. The 645th Aeronautical Systems […] More

  • DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Issues Draft Solicitation for Cloud Procurement Contract

    The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More

  • Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract

    Capco has received a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce two impulse cartridge variants and test aircraft ejection devices. Work covers the production of WA83, CCU-136A/A; WB24, CCU-145A cartridges; and/or production lot testing of ejection devices from aircraft, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has won a potential $19.9 million contract to update the service branch’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and the Next Generation Jammer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers the development of an X-band radar technology, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $1.1 million in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation […] More

  • Report: Google, DoD Partner to Develop AI Tech for UAS Footage Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Google, DoD Partner to Develop AI Tech for UAS Footage Analysis

    Google and the Defense Department have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence technology that would aid analysis of footage collected through unmanned aircraft systems, Gizmodo reported Tuesday. An anonymous Google spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company will provide TensorFlow application programming interfaces to help DoD analysts identify objects in UAS footage as part of the department’s Project Maven. […] More

  • CSRA Gets DoD Provisional Authorization for milCloud 2.0 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Gets DoD Provisional Authorization for milCloud 2.0

    CSRA has received a provisional authorization from the Defense Department to deploy and operate a cloud platform. The provisional Impact Level 5 Systems certification from DoD allows CSRA’s milCloud 2.0 to host military applications and national security platforms that store mission critical data and controlled unclassified information, the company said Tuesday. Larry Prior, CSRA president […] More

  • 3 Firms Win Navy Signature Technology Office Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3 Firms Win Navy Signature Technology Office Support IDIQ

    Devine Consulting, EOIR Technologies and ThermoAnalytics have won spots on a potential $48.5 million contract to support the U.S. Navy‘s Signature Technology Office. All three companies are eligible to vie for scientific, engineering, programmatic, research and development support task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Navy intends to obligate $2,500 in fiscal year 2018 working […] More

  • Lockheed Adopts Remediant Privileged Access Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adopts Remediant Privileged Access Mgmt Platform

    Lockheed Martin has implemented a Remediant-built privileged access management system as part of efforts to comply with controlled unclassified information management and security policies for Defense Department contractors. Remediant said Monday it provided the SecureONE platform to help address Lockheed’s requirement for a PAM system that integrates multifactor authentication and access privileges. SecureONE is designed to limit privileged […] More