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  • Alion to Help Update Army Engineers' Comms Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion to Help Update Army Engineers’ Comms Infrastructure

    Alion Science and Technology has received a $33M task order to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers modernize, secure and maintain USACE’s ground-based and satellite communications platforms. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop systems for USACE to protect systems used in the event of an emergency from radio frequency interference. Alion will also provide […] More

  • Prescient Edge Wins $65M Contract to Support DIA Counterintelligence Activity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prescient Edge Wins $65M Contract to Support DIA Counterintelligence Activity

    Prescient Edge has won a potential $65.1M contract to assist the Defense Intelligence Agency in threat identification and neutralization efforts. The company will help DIA’s counterespionage division in efforts to address threats to agency missions, information and employees, the Defense Department said Monday. DIA received 20 offers for the small business set-aside contract and will obligate $7.3M […] More

  • Jay Hurt Named Financial Mgmt Practice Managing Director at Grant Thornton's Public Sector Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jay Hurt Named Financial Mgmt Practice Managing Director at Grant Thornton’s Public Sector Arm

    Jay Hurt, former chief financial officer of the Education Department‘s Office of Federal Student Aid, has joined Grant Thornton as managing director of the financial management practice within the company’s public sector business. Grant Thornton said Monday Hurt will be based at its Alexandria, Va., office and will work with federal clients to help them transform and modernize operations. In his […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Coastal Riverine Force Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Coastal Riverine Force Support Contract

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries business unit has secured a potential five-year, $34M contract to help U.S. Navy coastal riverine forces maintain expeditionary equipment. HII said Monday its technical solutions group will provide engineering, logistics, technical and field team support as well as organizational and intermediate-level maintenance services to CORIVFOR groups one and two. The company will also help manage hull, […] More

  • Lynn Dugle: Engility to Offer Technical Research, Analysis Services Through DoD Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Engility to Offer Technical Research, Analysis Services Through DoD Contract Vehicle

    Lynn Dugle, president, chairman and CEO of Engility, has said the company seeks to provide technical research, scientific and analytical support for Defense Department missions via a potential $28B contract vehicle. “DoD has been working on ways to more rapidly deliver needed capabilities to the front line and I’m glad to see this translate to action,” added Dugle, a two-time Wash100  […] More

  • HII Shipbuilding Division Installs Updated Radar Tower on USS George Washington Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Shipbuilding Division Installs Updated Radar Tower on USS George Washington Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division has installed a new radar structure on a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy aircraft carrier as part of a $2.8B refueling and complex overhaul project. Installation of the radar tower indicated that RCOH work on the service branch’s Nimitz-class USS George Washington is 25 percent complete, HII said Friday. The Navy selected […] More

  • Navy Orders $65M in Northrop Triton UAS Sensor Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders $65M in Northrop Triton UAS Sensor Spares

    Northrop Grumman has received a $64.8M delivery order to provide sensor spares for the service branch’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide low-rate initial production 3 spares to support organizational-level maintenance of the Multi-Function Active Sensors, the Defense Department said Friday. The order covers the delivery of six antenna group assemblies, six wideband receivers […] More

  • TSA Orders $70M in Smiths Detection-Made Baggage Screening Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TSA Orders $70M in Smiths Detection-Made Baggage Screening Equipment

    Smiths Detection has received a $70M order from the Transportation Security Administration to deploy computerized tomography imaging systems to airports nationwide. The company said Friday it will provide CTX 9800 systems through 2019 in an effort to help TSA personnel detect and identify explosives in luggage content. The baggage screening platform is designed with 3D CT technology and certified by the […] More

  • US Marshals Service Issues RFI on Cryptocurrency Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Marshals Service Issues RFI on Cryptocurrency Mgmt Services

    The U.S. Marshals Service has issued a request for information on vendors who can store manage and dispose of virtual currency and tokens. USMS aims to determine if there are existing industry sources that can help the law enforcement agency manage its inventory of seized and forfeited cryptocurrency, according to a notice posted Thursday on […] More

  • TAPE Makes List of Largest DC Veteran-Owned Companies; Louisa Long Jaffe Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TAPE Makes List of Largest DC Veteran-Owned Companies; Louisa Long Jaffe Quoted

    Technical and Project Engineering has landed the 25th spot on the Washington Business Journal’s list of largest veteran-owned companies in the greater D.C. region. Louisa Long Jaffe, president and CEO of TAPE, said in a statement released Thursday she hopes the listing provides further evidence to public and private sector organizations that the company can serve as […] More

  • Sikorsky Gets Navy CH-53K Spare Parts Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Gets Navy CH-53K Spare Parts Order

    Lockeed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $58.4M delivery order to provide spare parts for the U.S. Navy‘s CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The service ordered 866 interim spare parts needed to repair and maintain lot 2 CH-53K low-rate initial production units, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur through January 2021 in Connecticut, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada and […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL to Help Air Force Manage Space Asset Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL to Help Air Force Manage Space Asset Portfolio

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory a five-year, $23.8M contract to provide life cycle support for the military branch’s space assets APL will support concept development, design, implementation, transition and management of tactical space and small satellite platforms under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force […] More