The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its intent to award a contract to Amazon Web Services to provide commercial cloud services designed to host data classified at the “secret” level. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the proposed contract will cover storage, virtual machines, internet protocol management and network bandwidth services. The company […] More

Cubic‘s mission solutions business unit has opened a new office in Tampa, Florida, in a push to expand support for U.S. military customers. The company said Thursday the office will be led by Lawrence Hollister, executive director of Cubic Mission Solutions, and will aid the delivery of military command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. […] More

Gregory Touhill, former federal chief information security officer, has joined the board of directors of cybersecurity software provider Bay Dynamics. Bay Dynamics said Tuesday Touhill will support the company’s efforts to implement a risk-based cybersecurity approach for commercial and government customers. He has served as president of Cyxtera Technologies‘ federal business group since July. Touhill became the first-ever […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command seeks partners from the academic and commercial sectors to study the cloud migration process through cooperative research and development agreements. A notice posted Nov. 16 on FedBizOpps stated the studies will utilize the Global Air Tranportation Execution System‘s information technology architecture as a baseline case to examine risks and migrate an existing government system to a […] More

A Raytheon subsidiary has secured an $8.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Transportation Command for support work on a transportation modeling and simulation application. The Defense Department said Thursday Raytheon BBN Technologies will continue to support the Analysis of Mobility Platform that works to simulate the Defense Transportation System. DoD added the modification exercises the third option year of the contract and […] More

A business unit of AAR has received a $21.7 million task order from U.S. Transportation Command to provide additional rotary-wing airlift services in Afghanistan under an existing U.S. Central Command support contract. The company said Tuesday its airlift division will supply two helicopters, personnel and flight operations, maintenance and logistics services as part of the nine-month task order. AAR’s helicopter utility services cover external […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command has awarded a potential nine-month, $33.5 million contract extension to an AAR subsidiary to provide rotary-wing services in Afghanistan. Airlift Group will continue to provide maintenance, logistics and flight operations support for four rotary-wing passenger and cargo aircraft of the U.S. Central Command, AAR said Monday. Steven Harrison, AAR Airlift Group president, said the […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to award a potential five-year contract to provide information technology research and consulting support services for the U.S. Transportation Command’s command, control, communications and cyber systems directorate. DISA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Monday potential contractors will work to provide such services in order to help Transcom’s directorate acquire, […] More

GeoDecisions will work with the U.S. Transportation Command to report, view and distribute geospatial data under a $6,848,430 contract. The Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based company will develop geospatial service and information technology applications and perform the work at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois through Sept. 30, 2019, the Defense Department said Monday. Transcom received three proposals for […] More

Earl Matthews is the vice president of enterprise security solutions division for the U.S. public sector at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, he is responsible for managing a team of experts that works to help HP clients manage cybersecurity threats. Matthews is a retired major general of the U.S. Air Force and was the […] More

Phacil has received a task order contract from the U.S. Transportation Command to provide on-site enterprise information technology support for Transcom’s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. The company said Wednesday the performance-based contract includes information assurance, content management, application development, system administration, network infrastructure engineering and other services. Phacil added that contract work covers support for SDDC activities at locations in […] More

Louis Berger has been selected to handle the air terminal and ground of U.S. air bases in South Korea. The company will perform the work at the Kunsan air base and Gimhae Republic of Korea air base for five years under the contract with the U.S. Transportation Command, Louis Berger said Wednesday. “We have a long history of strong partnerships […] More