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  • ASRC Federal's Mission Solutions Business Obtains CMMI Level 5 Rating - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASRC Federal’s Mission Solutions Business Obtains CMMI Level 5 Rating

    ASRC Federal‘s mission solutions business unit has received Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The appraiser, Integrated System Diagnostics, did not discover weaknesses in AFMS’ operations and had no major recommendations for change, AFMS said Thursday. ASRC Federal has operated at CMMI Level 5 for more than […] More

  • Orbital ATK Reveals Test Results of Motor Technology for Orion Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Reveals Test Results of Motor Technology for Orion Spacecraft

    Orbital ATK has analyzed the results of a qualification test on the attitude control motor of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system. The company said Monday results from the test in Elkton, Maryland indicate that the ACM’s HT-11 ‘high thrust’ demonstration was fully successful and the motor can now enter the program’s qualification phase. ACM features a […] More

  • Lockheed Unit to Provide Towed Array Units, Engineering Services Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unit to Provide Towed Array Units, Engineering Services Under Navy Contract Modification

    Lockheed Martin‘s mission systems and training unit has received a nearly $42 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver TB-37 Multi-Function Towed Array production units, accessories, shipping products and engineering services. The Defense Department said Friday the modification exercises options in a previously awarded contract and includes purchases for the Navy and a foreign military sales […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has secured a $43.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce Trident II D5 submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles and carry out support for deployed D5 systems. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Washington, Utah and Virginia through Sept. 30, 2017. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs will obligate […] More

  • Northrop Secures Navy Triton UAS Long-Lead Material Procurement Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Secures Navy Triton UAS Long-Lead Material Procurement Funds

    Northrop Grumman has received a $49.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead components, materials, parts and services required to produce the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Monday work will occur in Maryland, West Virginia, Utah, Texas, California and other locations in the continental U.S. through December 2017. The Naval Air Systems Command will […] More

  • Leidos Secures Follow-On Navy Intell System Support Contract; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Follow-On Navy Intell System Support Contract; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential two-year, $43 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide technical services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s intelligence infrastructure. The follow-on contract covers technical assessment and evaluation, program definition, organization and direction support for the Distributed Common Ground System – Navy family of systems, Leidos said Monday. […] More

  • KeyW Gets ISO Quality Management Certification for Engineering, Technology Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyW Gets ISO Quality Management Certification for Engineering, Technology Services

    National security services provider KeyW has obtained an International Organization for Standardization certificate for the company’s quality management processes at its headquarters and supporting facility located in Hanover, Maryland. Platinum Registration issued the ISO 9001:2015 certification that covers KeyW’s cybersecurity, cloud, data analytics, engineering services and analysis and operations, KeyW said Wednesday. ISO 9001:2015 outlines criteria for quality […] More

  • Cisco to Sponsor NIST's Baldrige Cybersecurity Workshop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Sponsor NIST’s Baldrige Cybersecurity Workshop

    Cisco will sponsor a cybersecurity workshop on April 2 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Maryland in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Baldrige Quest for Excellence Conference. NIST said Thursday the Baldrige Cybersecurity Workshop aims to provide organizations guidelines on evaluating their own cybersecurity programs using the Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder as part of risk […] More

  • Northrop, Digit All City to Develop Cybersecurity Training Program Under DoD Mentor-Protege Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Digit All City to Develop Cybersecurity Training Program Under DoD Mentor-Protege Initiative

    Northrop Grumman and Digit All City have partnered under the Defense Department‘s Mentor-Protege program in efforts to boost the nonprofit small disadvantaged business’ capacity to administer cybersecurity training and testing. Northrop said Monday it will help DAC develop the Cyber Warrior Diversity Program that aims to train, test and certify individuals for cybersecurity careers in accordance with DoD’s Information Assurance […] More

  • Event Promotion: Curio Wellness CEO Michael Bronfein to Lead Fireside Chat At Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Baltimore Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Event Promotion: Curio Wellness CEO Michael Bronfein to Lead Fireside Chat At Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Baltimore Forum

    Michael Bronfein, CEO of healthcare and wellness services company Curio Wellness, will lead a fireside chat session with entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Baltimore Forum on Feb. 28 at the Hilton Baltimore in Maryland. Bronfein is a co-founder of private equity firm Sterling Partners. Event organizers anticipate 350 attendees to include more than 175 company CEOs […] More

  • Raytheon Tests James Webb Telescope's Flight Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests James Webb Telescope’s Flight Operations System

    Raytheon has conducted factory acceptance tests on a flight operations system for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope. The tests occurred at Raytheon’s Aurora, Colorado-based facility and aimed to verify 800 requirements on JWST’s ground control system, the company said Wednesday. Raytheon built the space observatory’s ground control system on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, under a contract […] More

  • DCS to Support Navy Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCS to Support Navy Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation

    DCS Corp. has won a one-year, $10.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of technical services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s air vehicle test and evaluation division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers up to 166,848 man-hours of test engineering, test support, ground and flight test conduct, test […] More