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  • State Department Issues RFI on Info Discovery, Awareness Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department Issues RFI on Info Discovery, Awareness Tools

    The State Department has launched a market research effort to identify potential sources of tools that could help DOS monitor sociopolitical events in real-time or “as near to real-time as possible.” A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps says the department looks to increase its ability to discover, track and analyze global events, crises, threats and foreign policy […] More

  • Cubic to Build Urban Operations Training Platform for Canadian Army; Dave Buss Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Build Urban Operations Training Platform for Canadian Army; Dave Buss Quoted

    Cubic has received a potential $27M task order from Canada’s government to develop and incorporate an urban operations training system into the Canadian Weapon Effects Simulation platform. The company said Monday it will deliver the technology to the Gagetown Canadian Forces Base and a maneuver training center at CFB Wainwright. Dave Buss, president of Cubic’s global defense segment, said company-built platforms work […] More

  • Forcepoint to Develop Insider Threat Detection Tool for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forcepoint to Develop Insider Threat Detection Tool for Air Force

    Forcepoint’s federal business has secured a three-year, $9.1M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a tool for the U.S. Air Force to monitor user activity on the service branch’s classified network. USAF asked the cybersecurity firm to develop a user activity monitoring technology that will work to detect, thwart and address insider threats, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • SAP Concur-Led Team to Modernize DoD Business Travel System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Concur-Led Team to Modernize DoD Business Travel System

    A SAP Concur-led industry team has secured a $9.3M “other transaction” agreement to develop a technology platform for Defense Department employees to manage travel bookings. DoD said Thursday SAP Concur will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal services unit, Booz Allen Hamilton and CWTSato Travel to build a prototype for the Defense Travel System replacement effort. More than two million active duty, reserve and […] More

  • NASA, ULA Partner for Cryogenic Fluid Mgmt, Spacecraft Retrieval Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, ULA Partner for Cryogenic Fluid Mgmt, Spacecraft Retrieval Projects

    NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center has partnered with United Launch Alliance to develop systems to manage cryogenic liquid and retrieve space vehicles in midair. The Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture will receive $2 million to demonstrate how very-low cryogenic fuel boil off can support long-duration missions with the Centaur Cryote-3 rocket stage under the Cryogenic Fluid Management Technology Demonstration effort, NASA said Thursday. The agency’s Kennedy Space […] More

  • Former DoD Space Policy Head Doug Loverro Joins ExoAnalytic Solutions Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DoD Space Policy Head Doug Loverro Joins ExoAnalytic Solutions Board

    Doug Loverro, former deputy assistant secretary for space policy at the Defense Department, has joined the board of directors of ExoAnalytic Solutions. He became ExoAnalytic Solutions’ first outside board member and aims to help expand the use of its technology and service offerings across defense and commercial space programs, the company said Wednesday. His three-decade public sector […] More

  • Parsons Gets Recognition for Teaming Efforts With Veteran-Owned Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Gets Recognition for Teaming Efforts With Veteran-Owned Businesses

    Parsons has received the National Veteran Small Business Coalition’s Champion of Veteran Enterprise Award for collaborating with veteran-owned and service-disabled, veteran-owned companies to support federal projects. The company said Wednesday it surpassed the government’s SDVOSB contracting goal of 3 percent in 2017 by awarding 10 percent of subcontractor dollars to businesses that fall under that group. The Pasadena, […] More

  • DLH to Provide Healthcare Services at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLH to Provide Healthcare Services at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth

        DLH Corp. has won a $5 million contract to support healthcare operations at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth,Va. The Atlanta, Ga.-based firm said Tuesday it will provide integrative and comprehensive care to medical home port patients at the NMCP complex and at the center’s Oceana and Virginia Beach facilities. As part of […] More

  • Boeing to Refresh Air Force C-32 Aircraft Interior - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Refresh Air Force C-32 Aircraft Interior

    Boeing has landed a $16.1 million contract to provide engineering services for a U.S. Air Force project to update the interior of the C-32 military passenger transportation aircraft. The company will refresh C-32’s interior appearance to resemble the VC-25A aircraft’s presidential section and replace the double-seat configuration with a triple-seat configuration aft of Door 3, the Defense Department said […] More

  • John Manley Appointed CAE Board Chair; Norton Schwartz Named Independent Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Manley Appointed CAE Board Chair; Norton Schwartz Named Independent Director

    CAE’s board of directors appointed former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley to succeed James Hankinson as chairman after the Montreal-based defense technology manufacturer held its annual shareholder meeting Tuesday. Manley served as the independent director of the company over the past decade and is currently the president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada, […] More

  • DISA, NIST Seek Industry Feedback on Uniform Metrics for Commercial Cloud Acquisition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA, NIST Seek Industry Feedback on Uniform Metrics for Commercial Cloud Acquisition

    The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Procurement Services Directorate and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are seeking information on standardized metrics to streamline service level agreements for commercial cloud contracts. DISA posted a request for information Friday calling for industry feedback on efforts to create a catalog of metrics for accessibility, availability, performance, service reliability, […] More

  • Constellis Selected for 2019 Military Friendly Employers List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Constellis Selected for 2019 Military Friendly Employers List

    VIQTORY, a veteran-owned recruitment marketing firm, has included Constellis in its list of Military Friendly Employers for 2019. The firm chose the winning companies by conducting extensive research on thousands of U.S. federal contractors, administering a survey of over 200 businesses and seeking input from military employees as well as the Military Friendly Advisory Council, […] More