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  • Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System

    Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidos’ health business, has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Department’s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining “trouble tickets” received from four test […] More

  • Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois to Develop Hardware Security Tools, Methods Under DARPA Program

    Galois has received a multiyear, $4.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop methods and tools to secure hardware for consumer, government and commercial use. The company said Wednesday it will lead a team project under the first phase of DARPA’s System Security Integrated through Hardware and Firmware program that seeks to address hardware vulnerabilities exploited […] More

  • Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO

    A Cisco-built cloud security offering has received an authority to operate at the moderate level from the program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Nick Michaelides, vice president of Cisco’s U.S. federal sales organization, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Cloudlock platform also met eligibility requirements for impact level 2 […] More

  • Connexta to Help Update Air Force's DCGS Integration Backbone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connexta to Help Update Air Force’s DCGS Integration Backbone

    Connexta has won a potential five-year, $83 million contract to develop a fifth version of the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help the service branch develop DIB software and related software as well as support the DCGS/Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise. DCGS is designed to receive, process, […] More

  • Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $12.5 million contract modification to perform engineering work on U.S. Army‘s fleet of Hunter unmanned aircraft systems The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s technical services business in Sierra Vista, Arizona, will perform work through Jan. 17, 2019. Hunter is designed to help Army personnel collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in the battlefield with […] More

  • Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test

    A Sparton–Ultra Electronics Holdings joint venture has received a potential three-year, $9.7 million delivery order to design representative sonobuoys for qualification and testing by the U.S. Navy. ERAPSCO will also support engineering and development of underwater active multiple ping sonobuoys under the order, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Systems Command will obligate $1.8 […] More

  • Ensco's Boris Nejikovsky Gets DoD Service Member Patriot Award; Scott Goldstein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco’s Boris Nejikovsky Gets DoD Service Member Patriot Award; Scott Goldstein Comments

    Ensco President Boris Nejikovsky has received the “Service Member Patriot Award” from the Defense Department‘s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program for supporting a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve. The company said Wednesday Nejikovsky was nominated by Scott Goldstein, an Air Force reservist and Ensco’s chief strategy and technology officer. Goldstein, an Air Force Reserve brigadier general and mobilization assistant, […] More

  • Ensco to Continue IT Services for Pentagon's CBRNE Warning & Decision Support System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Continue IT Services for Pentagon’s CBRNE Warning & Decision Support System

    Ensco has received a five-year, $8.2 million contract to continue support work on a warning and decision support tool the company built for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s branch for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense. The company said Tuesday it will develop software and provide customization services for the SENTRY application that works to help personnel view data […] More

  • Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract

    Atec has received a potential four-year, $80.3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force repair engine test stands. The company will fix platforms the service branch uses to conduct intermediate maintenance test and evaluation of aircraft units, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will occur in the U.S. and various locations overseas through Jan. 21, […] More

  • Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses

    Telos will continue to carry out system security assessments to support the Defense Department’s cybersecurity authorization process after the U.S. Air Force renewed the company’s licenses. The renewal of the firm’s General Agent of the Security Control Assessor and Special ASCA certifications by the Air Force Space Command’s SCA would allow Telos to test networks, […] More

  • Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center's GPS Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center’s GPS Directorate

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received an $11.1 million contract to support modernized receiver test assets of global positioning systems directorate at the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. Draper Lab will also provide support services for the SMC GPS directorate’s test and verification branch under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The nonprofit research […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Support DoD Enterprise Cloud Migration Initiative

    The Defense Department has selected a Koniag subsidiary to help DoD’s Executive Steering Group and Defense Digital Service manage an enterprise cloud initiative. Eagle Harbor Solutions will assist CESG in efforts to implement a strategy to accelerate the department’s adoption of cloud-based architectures and services, the company said Jan. 16. EHS, which operates under Koniag’s government services sector, will also […] More