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  • Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments

    Leidos’ Sea Hunter autonomous anti-submarine vessel has passed nearly two years of testing with the U.S. Navy and joined the service’s fleet of warships, CNBC reported Wednesday. The report said almost all of Sea Hunter’s elements are now classified. Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, vice president and Navy strategic account executive at Leidos, stated that Sea […] More

  • Leidos Wins Potential $65M USACE Info Mgmt, IT Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Wins Potential $65M USACE Info Mgmt, IT Support Contract

    Leidos has won a one-year, $64.5 million contract to information management and information technology services across the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enterprise. USACE received four bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online-based solicitation and will obligate $63.3 million in fiscal 2018 revolving funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The company’s innovations business […] More

  • Leidos Makes Military Times 'Best for VETS' Index - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Makes Military Times ‘Best for VETS’ Index

    Leidos has been added to the 2017-2018 ‘Best for VETS’ Index of the Military Times for the company’s support for U.S. military veterans and their families and for three consecutive years on the publications’ rankings for employers of former service members. The company said Thursday it is one of the 36 firms included in this year’s […] More

  • NIH Renews AMRI's Neurotherapeutic Drug Discovery Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Renews AMRI’s Neurotherapeutic Drug Discovery Support Contract

    Albany Molecular Research Inc. has secured a potential 10-year, $39.5 million contract renewal to support a National Institutes of Health program that aims to develop medicines for nervous system disorders. AMRI said Tuesday it will continue to provide medicinal chemistry, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion services to the Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network managed by NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and […] More

  • Intelsat General to Help Leidos Build Satellite Navigation Payload for FAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat General to Help Leidos Build Satellite Navigation Payload for FAA

    Intelsat General, a U.S. subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based satellite services provider, will participate in a Leidos-led consortium that won a potential $117 million task order to Orbital ATK develop a new satellite navigation payload for the Federal Aviation Administration. The industry team will build and operate the Geostationary Earth Satellite 7 as part of FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System […] More

  • Leidos taps Parsons for construction support for National Science Foundation Antarctic operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos taps Parsons for construction support for National Science Foundation Antarctic operations

    Parsons will serve as general contractor for construction support services to help Leidos provide aid in the Antarctic operations of the National Science Foundation. Leidos selected Parsons through a competitive process to provide design, engineering and construction management services for the McMurdo Station refresh efforts, Parsons said Thursday. The more than 60-year old McMurdo Station serves as […] More

  • Australia Adds Microsoft Azure, Office 365 to Certified Cloud Services List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Adds Microsoft Azure, Office 365 to Certified Cloud Services List

    Microsoft’s cloud offerings have received certification in Australia to host data at the protected level. The company said Tuesday the Australian government’s signals directorate has added its Azure and Office 365 platforms to the Certified Cloud Services List. Steven Worrall, managing director of Microsoft’s Australian arm, said the Protected Level certification for Office 365 and […] More

  • Northrop to Help Modernize SSA IT Systems; Erik Buice Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Modernize SSA IT Systems; Erik Buice Comments

    Northrop Grumman will support information technology modernization and transformation activities at the Social Security Administration under a potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in August 2017. The company said Thursday it seeks to help SSA update and engineer software, manage data and database and secure IT platforms through the IDIQ re-compete award. Northrop, CGI’s federal business and Leidos hold positions on […] More

  • Joseph Craver Succeeds Dennis Lauchner as CSS CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joseph Craver Succeeds Dennis Lauchner as CSS CEO

    Joseph Craver, who joined CSS two years ago, has been appointed CEO of the Fairfax, Virginia-based government services provider. He succeeds Dennis Lauchner, who will remain with CSS as vice chairman of its board, and will be the second CEO in the company’s 30‐year history, according to the press release. Craver held a 24-year career at Leidos and Science […] More

  • Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $35.3 million contract to provide operational safety, occupational health, mission assurance services at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will also help manage the center’s safety and mission assurance directorate manage aeronautics and space flight systems and ground support equipment programs. NASA said Wednesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains a 45-day […] More

  • Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies

    Arizona-based organization Ethisphere Institute has selected Dun & Bradstreet as one of the 135 most ethical companies around the world in 2018. D&B said March 1 this is its 10th consecutive year in the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies list. Louis Sapirman, chief compliance officer of Dun & Bradstreet, stated that the company recognizes its responsibility to […] More

  • Leidos, New Zealand-Based Company Develop Air Traffic Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, New Zealand-Based Company Develop Air Traffic Mgmt System

    Leidos has collaborated with Airways New Zealand to develop an air traffic management system designed to facilitate exchange of information between airports, airlines and an air navigation service provider. SkyLine-X works to help ATC personnel monitor aircraft and airspace, manage trajectory-based operations, secure communications and coordinate weather planning activities, Leidos said Tuesday. The system employs a human machine […] More