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  • Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has awarded A&D General Contracting a $9.6 million task order to build a combat service support facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. The facility will be built in Camp Pendleton, California and will have operational, maintenance and administrative offices for the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion’s West Coast-based combat service support organization units, NAVFAC said Friday. […] More

  • Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus DS Communications to Deploy Public Safety Call Handling Service in North Dakota

    A subsidiary of Airbus‘ defense and space business will supply the VESTA 9-1-1 call handling service to 11 of 22 public safety answering points in North Dakota under a collective contract through the state’s information technology department. The company said Wednesday Airbus DS Communications will provide the VESTA 9-1-1 system as part of the PSAPs’ effort to deploy a geodiverse regional system […] More

  • ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites

    The United Launch Alliance has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Space Wing to launch the third and fourth Orbital ATK-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites aboard a Delta IV rocket. The Air Force said Friday the launch of the two GSSAP satellites is part of the AFSPC-6 mission to advance space situational awareness. The Air Force Space Command-operated […] More

  • Canadian Gov't Taps Fortinet to Provide IT Infrastructure Security Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Gov’t Taps Fortinet to Provide IT Infrastructure Security Tech

    Canada’s information technology services organization has selected Fortinet to provide a scalable IT infrastructure security service across the country’s government. Fortinet said Thursday Shared Services Canada will utilize the Fortinet Security Fabric that consists of FortiGate enterprise firewalls and the FortiManager security management software. The company added it will work with SSC to deploy the security service that will work to deliver full control […] More

  • Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services

    Booz Allen Hamilton has awarded System High Corp. a five-year subcontract to deliver security services in support of multiple Missile Defense Agency programs nationwide. System High said Wednesday it will provide personnel security, physical security, security operations support, information security, classification management, international security, antiterrorism, insider threat, security reviews, emergency management/continuity of operations and research, development and acquisition security and […] More

  • Esri ArcGIS Mapping Platform to Power Demining Org's Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri ArcGIS Mapping Platform to Power Demining Org’s Info Mgmt System

    Esri‘s ArcGIS mapping platform will power the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining’s risk reduction and information management system for explosive remnants of war. The company said Thursday it will integrate its technology into GICHD’s Information Management System for Mine Action or IMSMA Core and support the organization’s migration of existing functions to the ArcGIS platform. The partnership aims to provide GICHD an […] More

  • Lockheed-Northrop JV to Produce Radar Electronics for Army Apache Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Northrop JV to Produce Radar Electronics for Army Apache Fleet

    A Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman joint venture has received a potential $38.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply radar electronic units for lot 7 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters of the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Thursday it expects Longbow LLC to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by July 31, 2019. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through […] More

  • Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Parsons two “bridge” contracts worth a combined $48 million to provide advisory and assistance services for MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and Space and Directed Energy programs. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will support Ballistic Missile Defense system architecture and engineering activities under the first contract valued at $40.8 million. Work will occur through […] More

  • Siemens Installs Online Monitoring Service for Predictive Maintenance at NASA Armstrong - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Installs Online Monitoring Service for Predictive Maintenance at NASA Armstrong

    Siemens‘ plant data services division has installed an online predictive maintenance monitoring service at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center that works to analyze the condition of critical assets and provide actionable recommendations. The company said Wednesday it implemented the data-based subscription service as well as a data acquisition system at NASA Armstrong to measure data on the condition of assets such […] More

  • Army TRADOC Exercises Year 1 Option in CGI Contract for Operational Environment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army TRADOC Exercises Year 1 Option in CGI Contract for Operational Environment Services

    The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command‘s intelligence directorate has exercised the first option year worth $34.2 million for CGI to provide operational environment option core services under a five-year, $124 million contract award from 2015. The company said Thursday it will provide scenario development tools, a data repository, classroom-ready instruction, combat training center support, mobile training team augmentation services […] More

  • Harris to Distribute Tait Communications Products in North America - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Distribute Tait Communications Products in North America

    Harris Corp.‘s public safety and professional communications business has entered into a partnership with Tait Communications to become an exclusive distributor of the latter’s communications products in North America. The agreement will market the two companies’ public safety and professional communications product lines and combine their dealer networks across more than 250 locations in the U.S., Canada and […] More

  • Raytheon to Manufacture Naval Strike Missile Launchers at Kentucky Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Manufacture Naval Strike Missile Launchers at Kentucky Facility

    Raytheon has been selected to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile at a company facility in Louisville, Kentucky under an initial contract with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems. Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon said Wednesday it will also conduct final assembly, integration and tests of the NSM at a site in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor Lawrence, Raytheon missile systems president, said the contract will help create additional job opportunities while providing launchers […] More