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  • Northrop Names Cygnus Resupply Spacecraft After Former Navy Officer John Young - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Names Cygnus Resupply Spacecraft After Former Navy Officer John Young

    Northrop Grumman has announced that its automated cargo spacecraft slated to be deployed to the International Space Station will be named after former U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut John Young. The Cygnus spacecraft will be launched aboard Northrop’s Antares rocket on Nov. 15 from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at NASA’s Wallops Flight […] More

  • MIL Corp. Awarded $85M Navy C5ISR Systems Engineering Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp. Awarded $85M Navy C5ISR Systems Engineering Support IDIQ

    MIL Corp. has secured a potential $84.6M contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer products and systems for command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Defense Department said Thursday work covers systems engineering, integration, production, test, evaluation and in-service engineering life cycle support to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The Navy […] More

  • AM General to Support Army's Humvee Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AM General to Support Army’s Humvee Modernization Effort

    AM General has received a delivery order for 740 M1152A1 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles as part of the Army National Guard’s $89M modernization program. The company said Tuesday it will also provide systems technical support services for the family of Humvees under a five-year contract which has an estimated value of $121M and covers […] More

  • Medallia Opens Public Sector Group HQ in Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Medallia Opens Public Sector Group HQ in Virginia

    Customer experience management company Medallia has selected McLean, Va., as the location of its public sector arm’s headquarters facility. Medallia said Wednesday it aims to help government clients integrate public comments and obtain a unified view of citizen experience with a single technology platform. The company designed its Experience Cloud platform to process citizen feedback from surveys or digital engagements […] More

  • CTC's Brandon Hody Earns National Safety Council Recognition; Ed Sheehan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC’s Brandon Hody Earns National Safety Council Recognition; Ed Sheehan Quoted

    The National Safety Council has recognized Brandon Hody, a safety and occupational health professional at Concurrent Technologies Corp., for his leadership in workplace safety programs. He received NSC’s Rising Stars of Safety Award, which honors professionals under age 40 who have demonstrated excellence in safety improvement initiatives, CTC said Wednesday. “Brandon is a valued member […] More

  • Salesforce Helps DC Agency Migrate Non-Emergency Response System to Cloud; Casey Coleman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salesforce Helps DC Agency Migrate Non-Emergency Response System to Cloud; Casey Coleman Quoted

    The Washington D.C. Office of Unified Communications has chosen Salesforce to help the agency transition its system for responding nonemergency calls from a server-based platform to a cloud environment. OUC migrated its 311 system onto the Salesforce Service Cloud equipped with the artificial intelligence-based Einstein Analytics tool in an effort to reduce call hold times and system downtime scenarios, […] More

  • Battelle to Support CDC Lead Surveillance Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Support CDC Lead Surveillance Systems

    Battelle has won a contract to assist the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in efforts to monitor and cut the risk of lead poisoning in children and households. The nonprofit said Tuesday it will provide software development and data management services for CDC’s Healthy Housing Lead Poisoning Surveillance System and Childhood Blood Lead Surveillance platform. The contract […] More

  • Perspecta to Support Navy Ship Signature Program; Mac Curtis Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta to Support Navy Ship Signature Program; Mac Curtis Quoted

    Perspecta has received a potential $36M contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical services to the ship signatures department of Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. The company said Tuesday it will work with the department that conducts research, development, engineering and test of U.S. Navy surface ship, submarine and small craft signatures. Work […] More

  • Insitu Seeks FAA Type Certification for ScanEagle UAS Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Seeks FAA Type Certification for ScanEagle UAS Variant

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has completed an interim board meeting with the Federal Aviation Administration as part of efforts to obtain type certification for the ScanEagle3 unmanned aerial system. Insitu said Tuesday multiple FAA teams visited the UAS maker’s Bingen, Wash., headquarters and examined its “detect-and-avoid” capability plan, model-based engineering process and safety management system. Agency personnel witnessed launch-to-capture […] More

  • Raytheon Intros Cyber Education Program in Kuwait, U.K.; Dave Wajsgras Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Intros Cyber Education Program in Kuwait, U.K.; Dave Wajsgras Quoted

    Raytheon has expanded the geographic coverage of its cyber education and training initiatives to the U.K. and Kuwait. The company said Monday it partnered with Kuwait University, Lancaster University and University of Gloucestershire to conduct workshops aimed at providing students with hands-on experience to recognize and counter network security threats through the Cyber Academy program. “The cyber […] More

  • Engility Books State Dept. Logistics Training Support Order; Scott Whatmough Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Books State Dept. Logistics Training Support Order; Scott Whatmough Quoted

    Engility will provide logistics training services to support the State Department’s Africa Peacekeeping Program under a $12.2M task order awarded through the AFRICAP III  contract vehicle. The task order covers operations, maintenance, quartermaster and technical training efforts in the Central African Republic, Engility said Monday. AFRICAP III, which the company secured a spot on last year, has a ceiling value of $1.5B. […] More

  • DoD Orders Additional Savi-Made RFID Tags - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Orders Additional Savi-Made RFID Tags

    Savi Technology has received orders from two Defense Department agencies to supply more than 48K active radio-frequency identification tags. The company said Monday it will provide the tagging systems as part of the second and final option year under DoD’s potential $102M RFID-IV contract. U.S. and international defense clients have received more than 1M tags from the company […] More