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  • Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Help Navy Install C4ISR Systems on USS Truman Carrier; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a 10-month, $18.9 million task order  to install command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. Serco Inc. will support installation of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system on the warship as well as provide satellite communications and C4ISR system modernization services under the order, the […] More

  • Northrop Sponsors Space Camp Attendance for 80 Middle School Students, 48 Science Teachers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Sponsors Space Camp Attendance for 80 Middle School Students, 48 Science Teachers

    Northrop Grumman will sponsor 80 middle school students and 48 science teachers from the U.S., Australia and the U.K.for them to attend Space Camp July 24 through July 29 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Space Camp will feature space shuttle missions simulations, astronaut training simulators and activities such as rocket building and launches for the students, […] More

  • CACI to Help Update Navy's Supply Chain, Logistics IT Infrastructure; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Update Navy’s Supply Chain, Logistics IT Infrastructure; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $60.7 million task order to modernize a set of information technology systems the U.S. Navy uses to manage the military branch’s supply chain and logistics activities ashore and afloat. The company said Thursday it will provide life cycle development and engineering services for the Naval Tactical Command Support System modernization effort. NTSS is […] More

  • Lynn Dugle: Engility to Provide Engineering Support for Navy's Air Cushion Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Engility to Provide Engineering Support for Navy’s Air Cushion Vehicles

    Engility has received a five-year, $29 million contract to perform engineering work on air cushion vehicles the U.S. Navy uses to transport personnel and cargo from ship to shore or across the beach. The company said Tuesday its expeditionary solutions group will provide command, control, communications, computers, navigation and electrical services for the military branch’s Landing Craft Air Cushion-1 Class and Ship-to-Shore Connector […] More

  • Engility to Provide Technical Services for NAVAIR's Flight Safety Program; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide Technical Services for NAVAIR’s Flight Safety Program; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has been awarded a potential four-year, $38 million contract to help the U.S. Navy determine aircraft safety requirements and prepare flight clearances. The company said Thursday it will provide aircraft worthiness recommendations to the Naval Air Systems Command Airworthiness and CYBERSAFE Office as well as convert the flight and technical manuals of the Navy into an electronic format. “This new work builds upon Engility’s long-standing system engineering […] More

  • Jonathan Couch Named ThreatQuotient Strategy VP; John Czupak Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jonathan Couch Named ThreatQuotient Strategy VP; John Czupak Comments

    Jonathan Couch, co-founder and former vice president of iSIGHT Partners, has joined ThreatQuotient as vice president for strategy at the Reston, Virginia-based enterprise security technology company. ThreatQuotient said Wednesday he will work to develop the company’s software roadmap and partnership strategy as well as collaborate with its partners and clients to help them  secure their business operations. “Couch has a deep understanding of the threat […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded ASRC Federal a potential five-year, $190 million contract to help the 71st Flying Training Wing run and maintain the Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma. ASRC Federal said Thursday the contract covers installation, engineering, transportation, communication and inventory and supply management services. The company will also provide operations support for on-site and auxiliary field fire departments. “We […] More

  • DARPA Taps Industry for Battlefield Network Protocols, Algorithms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Industry for Battlefield Network Protocols, Algorithms

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off a project to explore new algorithms and protocols for physically dispersed computing infrastructure, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. According to the report by John Keller, DARPA aims to increase the performance of the U.S. military’s dispersed computing applications and networks through the Dispersed Computing initiative. Keller writes the program will work to […] 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

  • US Air Force Mulls Energy-as-a-Service Model; Mark Correll Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Air Force Mulls Energy-as-a-Service Model; Mark Correll Comments

    The U.S. Air Force is looking into the possibility of using an energy-as-a-service model at its bases in order to keep facilities powered in the event of a cyber attack or a natural disaster, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the model could replace the Air Force’s existing business arrangements that involve enhanced-use leases and energy saving performance […] More

  • CAE Discloses UAE Training Center Development, Simulator Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Discloses UAE Training Center Development, Simulator Contracts; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    The United Arab Emirates has awarded CAE a set of contracts with a combined $111 million base value deliver helicopter simulators and develop a naval training center for the country’s joint aviation command and navy. CAE will design and develop a naval training center with ship simulation-based training suites and maritime aircraft sensor stations designed to conduct individual, team, chip and collective mission training, […] More

  • Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments

    Jeremy Myers, a 25-year information technology veteran, has been appointed IT solutions architect at Reston, Virginia-based tactical C4ISR systems and lifecycle support provider iGov. He will support the company’s business development functions and lead its efforts to design enterprise architecture, assess emerging technology and develop advanced concepts in his new position, iGov said Monday. The company noted he […] More