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  • Unisys Releases Enterprise App Modernization Offering; Rob Cashman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Releases Enterprise App Modernization Offering; Rob Cashman Comments

    Unisys has released the latest version of its ClearPath ePortal application modernization solution, which includes features for web enablement and mobile access to enterprise applications. ClearPath ePortal 6.0 leverages the Microsoft .NET environment to develop web and mobile features for ClearPath applications, the company said Thursday. “As part of their IT modernization initiatives, ClearPath clients want to give their mobile customers […] More

  • Kenneth Washington: New Lockheed Palo Alto Lab to House Space Payload R&D Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kenneth Washington: New Lockheed Palo Alto Lab to House Space Payload R&D Work

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has opened a new laboratory at the unit’s advanced technology center in Palo Alto, Calif. to host research and development work for emerging technologies. The 82,000-square foot Advanced Materials & Thermal Sciences Center will house 130 staff that perform R&D work in areas such as thermal sciences, nanotechnology and 3-D printing, Lockheed said […] More

  • Jim Myles: DynCorp to Help Maintain Air Force C-5 Aircraft Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Myles: DynCorp to Help Maintain Air Force C-5 Aircraft Engines

    DynCorp International has been awarded a potential one-year, $8.5 million task order to help maintain engines and components for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-5 aircraft. Jim Myles, senior vice president of the DynAviation business, said Wednesday that the company will perform “intermediate level engine overhaul services on one of the largest military aircraft ever built.” The […] More

  • Array-Led Team to Help Operate Air Force Financial Systems; Mark Douglas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Array-Led Team to Help Operate Air Force Financial Systems; Mark Douglas Comments

    Array Information Technology will help the U.S. Air Force operate and manage two financial systems based at Air Force Materiel Command’s headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The company said Wednesday that its team, which includes CACI International, will support at least 1,600 users of the Keystone Decision Support System and Command Management System. “KDSS and CMS represent vital financial […] More

  • Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marcus Collier: General Dynamics to Help CMS Collect, Crunch Medicare Data Sets

    A General Dynamics business unit will provide information technology services to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services‘ Virtual Research Data Center, which contains electronic Medicare data sets. General Dynamics Information Technology will work on data analytics, infrastructure development and maintenance functions, as well as provide training and technical assistance, the company said Wednesday. “CMS is the nation’s […] More

  • CGI, EDP Sign $55M IT Services Contract Extension; Paulo Magro da Luz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI, EDP Sign $55M IT Services Contract Extension; Paulo Magro da Luz Comments

    CGI Group and European energy producer EDP have signed a four-year, $55.1 million contract extension for CGI to continue performing data center, infrastructure management and application operations work. CGI said Wednesday it will also provide local team support to EDP in order to implement application operation and infrastructure management models . “[This] consolidates current data center and infrastructure management agreements into […] More

  • 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

  • TASC's Gary Oleson: Federal Space Sector Must Evolve Amid Budget Cuts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TASC’s Gary Oleson: Federal Space Sector Must Evolve Amid Budget Cuts

    The federal space sector faces a challenge as budget trends point to other priorities and future budget increases appear limited with the current economy and the steadily declining discretionary spending, TASC senior engineer Gary Oleson writes in a March 17 op-ed for Space News. To address this challenge, Oleson writes the sector must choose to either reduce […] 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