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  • Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia's I-66 Toll System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Help Design, Install Virginia’s I-66 Toll System

    Parsons has secured a contract to provide management services for a tolling system design and installation project within a 10-mile segment of Interstate 66 in Virginia. The company said Monday the project encompasses work to install an all-lane system for toll collections from I-495 in the Capital Beltway to U.S. Route 29 in Rosslyn to help address traffic congestion in and out of Washington, […] More

  • Bechtel to Continue Management Support for 2 Industrial Development Projects in Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel to Continue Management Support for 2 Industrial Development Projects in Saudi Arabia

    Bechtel has secured a five-year contract extension from an autonomous Saudi Arabian government agency to continue to provide management services for two industrial  development projects in Jubail and Ras Al Khair. The company said Monday its contract with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu covers projects to construct residential and educational buildings as well as roads, bridges, […] More

  • Deltek: 2017 Federal Budget Presents Opportunity for Cyber, R&D, Health IT Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: 2017 Federal Budget Presents Opportunity for Cyber, R&D, Health IT Vendors

    Deltek estimates contractor-addressable spending on the U.S. government’s mission-critical programs will increase by $18 billion to about $682 billion in fiscal year 2017 if Congress approves the White House’s latest budget request. The company’s “FY 2017 Federal Budget Request: Challenges and Opportunities” report examines potential business opportunities the $1.14 trillion discretionary spending plan offers to the GovCon sector, Deltek said Thursday. The report forecasts […] More

  • DMI, USDA to Add Features for Food Safety & Inspection Service Agency Mobile App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DMI, USDA to Add Features for Food Safety & Inspection Service Agency Mobile App

    Bethesda, Maryland-based mobile services company Digital Management Inc. and the Agriculture Deparment will incorporate new features into an app operated by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. DMI said Wednesday it looks to release updates for The FoodKeeper mobile app in May and August to add hotline access, multi-lingual support, imperial or metric format measurement display, calendar of events updates, general cooking information, educational videos and […] More

  • Thales' Canada Arm to Develop Ontario Railway Signalling System; Brad Duguid Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales’ Canada Arm to Develop Ontario Railway Signalling System; Brad Duguid Comments

    Thales Group‘s Canada-based subsidiary has partnered teamed up with the Ontario government to develop a new railway signalling system for the province to address transit safety concerns and potentially create new jobs. Thales in Canada and Ontario will work to integrate a new communication-based train control system for mass transit including subways, light rail and commuter rail systems, the company said Wednesday. […] More

  • DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies

    DLT Solutions has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure company SimpliVity in an effort to help federal agencies manage and operate their data centers. The alliance will work to unite all IT infrastructure and services below the hypervisor level and help organizations take control of their networks through virtualized workload protection, DLT said Tuesday. Brian Strosser, DLT’s chief operating officer, said […] More

  • Salient CRGT Lands US Courts Administrative Office IT Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Lands US Courts Administrative Office IT Support Services Contract

    Fairfax, Virginia-based government technology services contractor Salient CRGT has received a $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Courts administrative office’s technology solutions office for research and engineering support services. Salient CRGT said Tuesday the company will also provide IT architecture work to support the administrative office’s tasks that include legislative, legal, financial, technology, management, administrative and program support services. U.S. Courts awarded the twelve month contract with four […] More

  • Siemens Unveils 3 Cybersecurity Ops Centers for Industrial Facility Protection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Unveils 3 Cybersecurity Ops Centers for Industrial Facility Protection

    Siemens has unveiled three Cyber Security Operations Centers located in Milford, Ohio, in the U.S. and in Lisbon, Portugal, and Munich, Germany, for industrial facilities protection. The CSOCs will house industry security specialists tasked to monitor facilities around the globe for cyber threats, send out warnings to companies regarding incidents and coordinate possible countermeasures, Siemens said […] More

  • Executive Profile: Gina Trombley, Parsons Group EVP for Federal Business Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Gina Trombley, Parsons Group EVP for Federal Business Unit

    Gina Trombley serves as group executive vice president of the federal business unit at Parsons. In this capacity, she oversees global sales operations and strategic programs for the federal business unit, which provides engineering and management support services to clients in the defense, security, intelligence, environmental and infrastructure markets. Prior to her current position, Trombley served […] More

  • Autodesk to Offer Infrastructure Modeling Software Access via DoT's 'Smart City' Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autodesk to Offer Infrastructure Modeling Software Access via DoT’s ‘Smart City’ Competition

    The Transportation Department has partnered with Autodesk to offer Smart City Challenge finalists access to a building information modeling platform in an effort to help participating cities develop urban innovation plans, CityLab reported Monday. Eric Jaffe writes DOT has received ideas from more than 78 U.S. cities on how to address mobility and safety problems through technology and will announce five finalists at […] More

  • Michael Johnson to Lead Parsons' Infrastructure Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Johnson to Lead Parsons’ Infrastructure Business

    Michael Johnson, formerly executive vice president and global business development manager at Parsons‘ transportation group, has been named president of the company’s infrastructure business unit. He succeeds Donald Graul, who has served in the role on an acting basis and will now focus on leading the construction unit as its president, Parsons said Wednesday. Johnson will […] More

  • AT&T, Partners Work on Internet of Things-Based 'Smart City' Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T, Partners Work on Internet of Things-Based ‘Smart City’ Framework

    AT&T has partnered with seven other technology companies to produce a smart-city development framework intended to help local government organizations to harness  Internet of Things platforms for management of their cities. Cisco, Deloitte, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have agreed to support AT&T’s strategy to help create more connected  communities, AT&T said Tuesday. […] More