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  • IRS Orders Temporary Suspension of Equifax ID Verification Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Orders Temporary Suspension of Equifax ID Verification Support Contract

    The Internal Revenue Service has decided to temporarily postpone a $7.2 million contract awarded to consumer credit reporting firm Equifax for taxpayer identity verification support services as the agency continues to review the company’s systems, Politico reported Thursday. The decision came weeks after the agency awarded the sole-source contract to Equifax and amid reports that the […] More

  • Equifax Lands IRS ID Verification Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Equifax Lands IRS ID Verification Support Contract

    The Internal Revenue Service has awarded consumer credit reporting agency Equifax a $7.2 million contract for taxpayer identity management and verification support services. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the agency awarded the sole-source contract in order to “cover the timeframe needed to resolve the protest” on a new contract. Jeffrey Tribiano, deputy commissioner for […] More

  • Airbus Lands UK Military Comms Satellite Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Lands UK Military Comms Satellite Development Contract

    Airbus’ defense and space business has received a sole-source contract from the U.K. defense ministry to develop, test and launch a military communications satellite, Defense News reported Monday. The Skynet 6A geostationary spacecraft is expected to enter service by mid-2025 and is designed to replace U.K. military satellites in the Skynet 5 constellation that are near the […] More

  • Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop

    The U.S. Navy plans to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the full-rate production of lots 7 to 11 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The fixed-price contract to be awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command covers 20 aircraft and contains a “variation in quantity” option that could bring the total number of planes to 40, […] More

  • DHA Taps CNTS to Support DoD Health Surveillance Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA Taps CNTS to Support DoD Health Surveillance Mission

    Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions has secured a $17.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide support services to the armed forces health surveillance branch of the public health division within the Defense Health Agency‘s healthcare operations directorate. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contractor will help DHA conduct health surveillance for DoD and assist in the analysis, interpretation and dissemination of […] More

  • Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing

    The U.S. Air Force plans to award a sole-source contract to Boeing to update and sustain the service branch’s F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Monday the proposed indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover software and hardware design, installation of updated kits, product support, structural and subsystem component production, development […] More

  • Textron Systems’ AAI Subsidiary Lands SOCOM Drone ISR Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems’ AAI Subsidiary Lands SOCOM Drone ISR Services IDIQ

    A Textron Systems subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $35 million contract to continue to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services for the U.S. Special Operations Command through mid-endurance unmanned aerial systems. The sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to AAI Corp. has a base term of six months and six option months and contains cost reimbursable and […] More

  • Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Lands 4 Contracts With Intelligence Community; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has received four contracts worth approximately $102 million combined from the Intelligence Community during the first quarter of 2016. Intelligence agencies made the awards in the form of recompete, sole-source and new contracts, Engility said Wednesday. The contracts are in addition to a potential five-year, $82 million contract awarded by the Defense Department to Engility in […] More

  • NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Eyes Cloud Transition Contract Award to Ball Aerospace

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to award Ball Aerospace & Technologies a one-year, sole-source contract to provide design and development support for NGA’s Accelerated Cloud Transition program. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the contract covers data tagging support for the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise’s GovCloud platform and commercial cloud services. Contract […] More

  • NAVAIR Plans 'Friend or Foe' ID Tech Contract Award to BAE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NAVAIR Plans ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Tech Contract Award to BAE

    The Naval Air Systems Command plans to award BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary a sole-source contract to build friend-or-foe identification systems for military aircraft such as the F/A-18 Hornet, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. The contract with BAE Systems Inc. will cover AN/APX-111 Mode 5 combined interrogator transponders, shop replaceable assemblies, kits for conversion of current AN/APX-111s […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Build 2nd Imaging Instrument for NASA's Landsat 9 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Build 2nd Imaging Instrument for NASA’s Landsat 9

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies will manufacture the second Operational Land Imager instrument for NASA‘s Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite under a potential six-year, $19.3 million sole-source letter contract. The company said Thursday it will build Operational Land Imager-2, which works to generate satellite imagery that will support studies on the impact of natural and man-induced activities on Earth’s surface. […] More