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  • ECS to Offer Access to IBM Cloud Platform; John Sankovich Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS to Offer Access to IBM Cloud Platform; John Sankovich Quoted

    ECS has been selected as an authorized provider of IBM’s public, private and hybrid cloud offerings. ECS said Thursday it will utilize its Cloud Center of Excellence platform to provide direct customer access to IBM’s cloud suite, which is integrated with artificial intelligence and advanced data technology. John Sankovich, vice president of cloud solutions at […] More

  • SOCOM Awards Boeing Rotary-Wing Aircraft Order Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOCOM Awards Boeing Rotary-Wing Aircraft Order Modification

    Boeing has received a $42.8M modification on a delivery order covering the production of four MH-47G helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM issued the cost-plus-fixed fee modification to meet an “urgent” aircraft sustainment requirement for heavy-assault, rotary-wing aircraft units, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the U.S. Army’s fiscal 2018 procurement and aircraft procurement funds are being used […] More

  • AT&T to Provide FirstNet Services Procurement Vehicle for California Public Safety Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Provide FirstNet Services Procurement Vehicle for California Public Safety Agencies

    AT&T and the state of California have partnered to create a procurement vehicle for FirstNet public safety broadband network services. The company said Thursday FirstNet will work to help state and local first responders obtain critical data and communicate when they perform tasks or in the event of an emergency. Ken McNeely, president of AT&T’s Pacific Region […] More

  • UTC Unveils High-Res Infrared Imaging Sensor for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC Unveils High-Res Infrared Imaging Sensor for Navy

    A sensor business under United Technologies Corp.’s aerospace systems unit has introduced a new imaging sensor as part of the U.S. Navy’s Spectral and Reconnaissance Imagery for Tactical Exploitation program. The company said Wednesday that its Sensors Unlimited business has delivered four prototypes of the indium gallium arsenide Near Infrared/Shortwave Infrared sensor to the Navy under a […] More

  • PAE Awarded F-35 Construction Site Security IDIQ; John Heller Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Awarded F-35 Construction Site Security IDIQ; John Heller Quoted

    PAE has won a potential 11-year, $35M contract to secure F-35 aircraft facility construction and renovation sites in Lakenheath, England. The 48th Civil Engineering Squadron at Royal Air Force Lakenheath awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers protection, information monitoring and support for sensitive U.S. government projects, PAE said Wednesday. PAE CEO John Heller said the company has developed […] More

  • Octo Consulting Wins $75M NIH IT Support Contract; Jay Shah Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Wins $75M NIH IT Support Contract; Jay Shah Quoted

    Octo Consulting has won an approximately $75M multiyear contract to support the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, which operates under the National Institutes of Health. Octo will provide IT services and ServiceNow cloud implementation support to the CBIIT to help the institute address its IT needs and further its cancer treatment […] More

  • Kevin Chilton Joins Aerojet Rocketdyne's Board of Directors; Eileen Drake Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Chilton Joins Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Board of Directors; Eileen Drake Quoted

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has appointed Kevin Chilton, a 34-year U.S. Air Force veteran and 11-year NASA astronaut, to the company’s board of directors. Chilton’s previous military roles include vice chief of staff and program director for the Air Force and director of politico-military affairs for Asia, Pacific and the Middle East, the company said Tuesday. He […] More

  • Altamira to Help Maintain Navy GEOINT Systems; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira to Help Maintain Navy GEOINT Systems; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted

    Altamira Technologies has received a multiyear, $6M contract from the U.S. Navy to support the maintenance and sustainment of geospatial intelligence systems being used by Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast. The company said Tuesday it will provide on-site technical support for the Geographic Information System and GeoReadiness Explorer platforms. NAVFAC uses the systems in efforts to manage facilities […] More

  • David Brown Named President of BWXT-Aptim JV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Brown Named President of BWXT-Aptim JV

    David Brown, a 35-year nuclear operations veteran, has been appointed president of a joint venture between BWX Technologies‘ technical services group and Aptim‘s federal services unit. He will lead the BWSR business that currently supports decommissioning, demolition and operations at multiple Naval Nuclear Laboratory sites through a contract with Fluor, BWXT said Tuesday. Brown previously served as director of […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Research Teams to Develop AI Tools With Basic Cognitive Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Research Teams to Develop AI Tools With Basic Cognitive Functions

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks participants for a four-year research program aimed at developing “third-wave” artificial intelligence tools that can mimic human reasoning and common sense, Nextgov reported Friday. The Machine Common Sense project is scheduled to commence in June 2019 and will challenge multiple teams to make AI applications understand basic physics, human […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Wins USS O'Kane Destroyer Ship Modernization Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Wins USS O’Kane Destroyer Ship Modernization Contract

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ San Diego shipyard has won a potential $51.5M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship. The project will also include maintenance and repair work on the USS O’Kane as part of fiscal 2019 DDG 77 extended selected restricted availability efforts, the Defense Department said Friday. Naval Sea Systems Command received three offers […] More

  • HII Execs Augustus Collins, Edmond Hughes Named Among Most Influential People in Mississippi - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Execs Augustus Collins, Edmond Hughes Named Among Most Influential People in Mississippi

    Two Huntington Ingalls Industries executives have been selected for Our Mississippi’s 2018 list of most influential African-American people in the state. The publication honored Edmond Hughes, vice president of human resources and administration at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, and company board member Augustus Collins at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the Westin Hotel in Jackson, Miss., the company said said […] More