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  • Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide the the U.K.’s nuclear regulation office with technical support for safety and operations of current and future nuclear facilities under a five-year framework agreement. The company will support ONR’s civil engineering, internal and external hazards, radioactive waste and decommissioning programs, Jacobs said Tuesday. ONR was established in 2011 to oversee the U.K.’s nuclear regulations. More

  • CMS Office of the Actuary's Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS Office of the Actuary’s Rick Andrews Presents at 2014 SAS Global Forum

    Rick Andrews, a programmer and analyst from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has presented at the 2014 SAS Global Forum Executive Conference on the agency’s use of SAS and Teradata software. Teradata said Mar. 20 that Andrews delivered his presentation entitled, “How SAS and Teradata Dramatically Improve Data Analysis at CMS” during a […] More

  • EMCOR Group Subsidiary to Construct Miami Sewer Pump Station; Pat Carr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMCOR Group Subsidiary to Construct Miami Sewer Pump Station; Pat Carr Comments

    An EMCOR Group subsidiary has won a construction contract for Miami-Dade County’s Master Pump Station No. 3 project that aims to expand the capacity of the sewer system in downtown Miami’s Brickell area. Florida-based Poole & Kent Company will construct a multilevel pump station building housing the four centrifugal pumps and a multilevel generator building housing the standby emergency diesel generator, the company said March […] More

  • DNC to Help CDC Assess Anti-Fraud, Abuse Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DNC to Help CDC Assess Anti-Fraud, Abuse Work

    Data Networks Corporation will work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a baseline assessment and form recommendations for a program intended to help detect and prevent healthcare fraud, waste and abuse. DNC will also include risk mitigation in its services in order to comply with the inspector general’s five principles on combating fraud, […] More

  • Mike Sabin: D&B Business Data to Boost SugarCRM Users' Sales, Marketing Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Sabin: D&B Business Data to Boost SugarCRM Users’ Sales, Marketing Efforts

    Dun & Bradstreet will integrate its global business content into SugarCRM as part of a partnership intended to boost the customer relationship management practice with access to information on prospects, customers and opportunities. D&B’s global business data, which covers 230 million companies and 100 million contacts, will be available to Sugar UX users in April, the […] More

  • Steve Overly: Textron Analysis Tool Built for Army to Examine Cultural Cues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Overly: Textron Analysis Tool Built for Army to Examine Cultural Cues

    The U.S. Army‘s Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command has adopted a Textron Systems product for personnel to collect, analyze and share socio-cultural data during missions. “The software has the ability to ingest random, disconnected cultural cues and events and transform them into predictable and actionable portraits of potential activity,” Steve Overly, senior vice president and general […] More

  • Ian Downie: Serco to Help UK Lab Adopt New Business Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ian Downie: Serco to Help UK Lab Adopt New Business Model

    Serco will continue providing management support to Britain’s National Physical Laboratory under a one-year contract extension with the U.K.’s department for business, innovation and skills. The company will work with the department to transition four universities into a government-owned/contractor-operated business model, Serco said Friday. Ian Downie, managing director of Serco’s strategic partnerships unit, said the company will […] More

  • Boeing Picks ETL Systems' RF Tech for Inmarsat Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Picks ETL Systems’ RF Tech for Inmarsat Satellite Constellation

    ETL Systems will provide its radio frequency signal distribution technology for three satellites in Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress constellation. Boeing selected ETL to supply the technology for the satellite, one of which Boeing built with 89 beams and six spot beams, ETL said Thursday. ETL’s Alto line amplifiers and RF splitters/combiners are intended for GX’s ground segment, which work to distribute RF […] More

  • Siemens, Chinese Firms Sign Clean Energy Development Pact; Joe Kaeser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Chinese Firms Sign Clean Energy Development Pact; Joe Kaeser Comments

    Siemens and Shanghai Electric Group have signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese utility company Huaneng Power International to further develop gas turbine, steam turbine and wind power technology. Huaneng intends to bolster its power generation efficiency and sustainability work in the area of clean energy development, Siemens said Friday “We can look back on a long and successful partnership […] More

  • Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies to Support NASA Intelligent Systems R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies to Support NASA Intelligent Systems R&D

    Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies will provide NASA‘s Intelligent Systems division with research and development services under a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $300 million. Greenbelt, Md.-based SGT will also support the NASA division’s technology infusion on missions as part of the contract, which begins April 1, the agency said Wednesday. The R&D work will be performed at NASA’s Ames Research […] More

  • CSC-VMware Team to Push Hybrid Cloud Brokering Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC-VMware Team to Push Hybrid Cloud Brokering Tool

    Computer Sciences Corp. and VMware will jointly offer customers a tool to migrate workloads between both companies’ respective cloud computing platforms and to conduct collaborative technical training for client-facing personnel. The companies said Thursday their hybrid cloud brokering product is intended to help users operate VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service in conjunction with CSC’s BizCloud and CloudCompute through CSC’s ServiceMesh Agility Platform. […] More

  • Alan Weakley: Sterling Global Operations Grows Footprint in Iraq, Kurdistan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Weakley: Sterling Global Operations Grows Footprint in Iraq, Kurdistan

    Sterling Global Operations is seeking to grow its oil and gas, mine clearing and other work in Kurdistan and Iraq by expanding its Kurdish operations center and constructing a regional logistics hub. The new 200,000 sq ft logistics hub near Erbil, capital of the Kurdish region, will be used for equipment storage, employee training and vehicle maintenance services, the stability operations company said Wednesday. According to Alan […] More