AAR has received a $41 million firm-fixed-price contract to convert the B737-700 aircraft into a “FlexCombi” configuration for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. The aerospace and defense aftermarket solutions provider said Monday the reconfiguration is meant to increase NNSA’s fleet size and give the agency the flexibility to convert aircrafts between passenger […] More

NASA is pursuing technology development efforts and partnerships with both private and public sectors to help the government boost aviation sustainability specifically through reduction of carbon emissions. The agency said Friday Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, spoke at a White House-led event and shared how aeronautics researchers are working on new, environment-friendly technologies for aircraft propulsion. […] More

ICF has received a potential five-year, $12 million recompete contract from the Social Security Administration for software development support. The company said Wednesday it will build, support and maintain software applications using the agency’s Security Automated Features and Enhancements platform under the contract to help SSA automate its physical security processes. SAFE is a suite […] More

CeleraPro, a certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone company, has been awarded a potential five-year, $18.9 million follow-on contract by NASA to conduct administrative support work at its two facilities in Alabama and New Orleans. Under the Center Administrative Support Services II contract, CeleraPro will deliver clerical, administrative and record management services to the Office of […] More

ICF has booked $13 million in two five-year orders to help the Federal Transit Administration modernize the nation's database of transit operations. The company said Tuesday it will use Appian's artificial intelligence to automate the National Transit Database, which stores and tracks financial, operational and capital-related data of U.S. transit systems.

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Katy Kale, acting administrator with the General Services Administration (GSA), has received a Wash100 Award for the first time in her career. The Wash100 Award remains the gold standard in the government contracting (GovCon) industry to recognize the level of excellence that drives the elite leaders of the federal and government sectors. 

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The Semiconductor Industry Association has asked President Joe Biden to provide substantial funding for semiconductor research and manufacturing efforts as the administration works on its economic recovery and infrastructure plan. 

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Salesforce has launched a new cloud platform designed to help government agencies, health care institutions and other organizations manage and implement their vaccine programs. Vaccine Cloud could help public health agencies, health care providers and nonprofit organizations schedule vaccination appointments, manage staff training, logistics and inventory, facilitate recipient registration and streamline vaccine outcome monitoring.

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Dave Clark, CEO of worldwide consumer business at Amazon, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden saying the company is willing to help with the country’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Reuters reported Thursday.

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Government affairs leaders at Washington-based technology companies discussed policy issues they expect the Biden administration to address once it takes office and one of those is the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it applies to broadband internet access and workforce, GeekWire reported Tuesday.

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Peter Tao, a former IBM executive, has joined information technology company Digital Management Inc. to serve as vice president for federal civilian, G2Xchange reported Friday. Tao formerly served as IBM's account manager for the State Department and industry-related projects.

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The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) has awarded Accenture Federal Services (AFS) a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to modernize the client case-management system of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services (PPS) System. Under the BPA, AFS will help the AOUSC design, integrate, deploy and support a secure cloud-based client case-management system on a software-as-a-service platform.

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