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  • BAE's US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $9.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research under DARPA’s Dispersed Computing initiative. The Defense Department said Tuesday the DCOMP program aims to produce software instantations of algorithms and protocol stacks that can use dispersed computing platforms to help boost application and network performance. […] More

  • CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More

  • AAR Elects Air Force Vet Duncan McNabb to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR Elects Air Force Vet Duncan McNabb to Board of Directors

    Duncan McNabb, co-founder and managing partner of Ares Mobility Solutions and a retired U.S. Air Force general, has been elected to serve on AAR‘s board of directors. AAR said Tuesday McNabb commanded the Air Mobility Command and the U.S. Tranpsortation Command before he retired from the military in 2011. “We look forward to benefiting from Duncan’s insights gained over his […] More

  • General Atomics to Help DoD Build Lithium-Ion Battery for Shallow Water Surveillance Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Help DoD Build Lithium-Ion Battery for Shallow Water Surveillance Vehicle

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has received a contract to help the Defense Department produce a lithium-ion battery system for a portable unmanned underwater vehicle designed to support shallow water surveillance missions. The company said Monday it is part of an industry team that currently works with DoD to design, fabricate and test a Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery that will be […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Lands USS Gerald Ford Pre-Commissioning Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Lands USS Gerald Ford Pre-Commissioning Support Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $21.7 million contract modification for production and test engineering services to the pre-commissioning USS Gerald R. Ford carrier unit. The Defense Department said Monday the company will begin work under the modification after it delivers the aircraft carrier to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and will continue work through February 2018. Capt. Thurraya Kent, a spokeswoman for […] More

  • Leidos' Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments

    Leidos subsidiary Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies. Systems Made Simple will develop, expand, update, maintain and plan the implementation of functionalities for the VA/DoD Identity Repository, Veterans Information Solution, Health Data Repository and Administrative […] More

  • Vencore Labs Gets DARPA Contract to Support Dispersed Computing Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs Gets DARPA Contract to Support Dispersed Computing Research Program

    Vencore’s research arm has won a potential four-year, $10.3 million contract to research and develop software platforms in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Dispersed Computing program. The DCOMP program seeks to create software instantiations of protocol stacks and algorithms to build up the performance of networks and applications through the use of dispersed computing […] More

  • Textron Unit to Support Air Force T-6 Aircraft Training System Under $61M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit to Support Air Force T-6 Aircraft Training System Under $61M Contract

    A business unit of Textron has been awarded a four-year, $60.5 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for program management and sustainment engineering services to support the T-6 Joint Primary Aircraft Training System. The Defense Department said Friday that Textron’s Beechcraft Defense business will also provide field service representatives, report deficiencies, request maintenance support under the sole-source contract. Work also […] More

  • DISA Updates VMware vSphere STIG to Add Software-Defined Storage Platform; Bill Rowan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Updates VMware vSphere STIG to Add Software-Defined Storage Platform; Bill Rowan Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has updated its Security Technical Implementation Guide for VMware’s vSphere offering to include the company’s hyper-converged infrastructure platform. DISA’s upgraded STIG seeks to offer cybersecurity policies and guide agencies on how to install the VMware vSAN HCI system in Defense Department-run networks in compliance with the department’s security requirements, VMware said Thursday. […] More

  • Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed, Northrop to Continue MQ-25 Risk Reduction Support to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed, Northrop to Continue MQ-25 Risk Reduction Support to Navy

    Boeing, General Atomics and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have received one-year contract modifications to carry out additional risk reduction activities for the U.S. Navy‘s future unmanned carrier aviation air system. The Defense Department said Thursday that Northrop will refine concepts and develop trade space ahead of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the MQ-25 UCAAS program under a $24.8 million […] More

  • Raytheon to Refresh AMRAAM Guidance Under $65M Air Force Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Refresh AMRAAM Guidance Under $65M Air Force Contract Option

    Raytheon has received a $64.6 million contract option from the U.S. Air Force to update the guidance section of a company-built air-to-air missile system. The Defense Department said Thursday Raytheon will continue to support form, fit, function and refresh efforts for the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile‘s guidance segment. The contract includes foreign military sales to Norway, Turkey, […] More

  • RMS Debuts Property Mgmt System on FedRAMP-Authorized Private Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RMS Debuts Property Mgmt System on FedRAMP-Authorized Private Cloud

    RMS‘ North American subsidiary has introduced a property management system on a Project Hosts-built cloud platform that is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. RMS – The Hospitality Cloud is now available to Defense Department and federal civilian clients via Project Hosts’ Federal Private Cloud, RMS said Wednesday. The system works to help customers manage real estate properties, reservations, dining […] More