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  • RS&H to Help Renovate Mobile Launcher at NASA Kennedy Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RS&H to Help Renovate Mobile Launcher at NASA Kennedy Space Center

    Reynolds, Smith & Hills has received a potential five-year, $30 million contract from NASA to provide architectural engineering and design services for a mobile launcher modification effort at the Florida-based Kennedy Space Center. NASA said Saturday RS&H will develop and modify electrical, mechanical and structural systems to help renovate KSC’s mobile launcher platform under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Aquabotix UUV Placed on GSA Contract Vehicle for Govt Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aquabotix UUV Placed on GSA Contract Vehicle for Govt Procurement

    An Aquabotix-built unmanned underwater vehicle is now available for purchase on General Services Administration contract vehicles, Naval Today reported Tuesday. Aquabotix’s Endura UUV platform has been approved for federal, state and local government procurement via the GSA Schedule and GSA Advantage contract vehicles. “Inclusion on the GSA Schedule and in the GSA Advantage catalog now allows for […] More

  • Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services

    HawkEye 360 and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions have inked a memorandum of understanding to integrate the latter’s carrier monitoring, interference detection and geolocation offerings with the former’s planned space-based radio frequency detection and geolocation services. The alliance will look to augment Kratos’ sensor network technologies with HawkEye 360’s RF detection and geolocation offerings to boost the speed and […] More

  • Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Develop Transport Systems for Australia via Public-Private Consortium

    Cubic is part of a public-private consortium that has received a 10-year, $41.3 million grant from the government of Australia to develop smart transport and mobility technologies. Cubic said Tuesday it aims to build multimodal systems intended to help address Australia’s transportation challenges through the iMOVE Cooperative Research Center — a consortium comprised of technology companies, academic institutions and government agencies. CRC will focus on […] More

  • Parsons Co-Hosts Research Workshop at MIT; Biff Lyons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Co-Hosts Research Workshop at MIT; Biff Lyons Comments

    Parsons has collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s civil and environmental engineering department to conduct a day-long workshop on research projects related to infrastructure, smart cities and transportation. The company said Thursday its leadership representatives and the university’s alumni, faculty and postdoctoral scholars examined the parallels between current industry needs and ongoing research efforts during the workshop. “The unique nature of […] More

  • MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract

    M.C. Dean has been awarded a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet. The Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland will determine funds and performance locations with each order. Contract work is scheduled to […] More

  • Washingtonian Magazine Lists Knight Point Systems Among Top 50 "Great Places to Work" in Washington DC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Washingtonian Magazine Lists Knight Point Systems Among Top 50 “Great Places to Work” in Washington DC

    Washingtonian Magazine has named Knight Point Systems as one of the “Top 50 Great Places to Work” in the Washington, D.C. area in 2017 based on a criteria that includes commitment to charity and community, financial stability, growth opportunities and work/life balance. Knight Point Systems said Thursday a Washingtonian panel of editors assessed almost 200 companies […] More

  • CenturyLink to Provide Managed Security Service to FCC IT Center; Erich Sanchack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Provide Managed Security Service to FCC IT Center; Erich Sanchack Comments

    CenturyLink has received a potential five-year, $875,000 task order for the provision of managed security services to the Federal Communications Commission‘s information technology center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The company said Thursday it will provide Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services that offer connectivity to the internet and external networks as well as help customer agencies comply with the Office of Management and […] More

  • Onvia Report Shows Q4 2016 Procurement Growth in Infrastructure-Related Industries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Report Shows Q4 2016 Procurement Growth in Infrastructure-Related Industries

    A new Onvia report revealed that construction and other infrastructure-focused industries emerged as the top growth contracting categories in the state and local government marketplace in the fourth quarter of 2016. The “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q4 2016” showed the construction industry rose by 5.5 percent in Q4 2016 compared with the previous quarter, while […] More

  • Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response

    Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look to respond threats such as […] More

  • London's Heathrow Airport Taps Jacobs for Engineering Services to Support Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    London’s Heathrow Airport Taps Jacobs for Engineering Services to Support Expansion Efforts

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a four-year contract from London’s Heathrow Airport for engineering and planning services to aid the airport’s expansion efforts. Jacobs said Tuesday it will oversee design activities for the airfield, earthworks and highways along with support to the Heathrow Integrated Design Team composed of seven aviation design and planning organizations selected for […] More

  • IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK

    IBM will add four new cloud data centers that possess cognitive intelligence capacities in the U.K. to meet a growing client demand. IBM said Monday the new facilities will triple the U.K.’s cloud center capacity as well as support the company’s commitment to deliver new products and services to the country’s market. The new facilities will provide users […] More