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  • General Dynamics Electric Boat Adds Navy Submarine R&D, Compartment Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Electric Boat Adds Navy Submarine R&D, Compartment Work

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary will perform research and development work for submarine technology areas and manufacture missile compartments for the U.S. Navy under $35.8 million in contract awards, the company said Wednesday. Electric Boat will focus its R&D work on manufacturability, hydrodynamics, acoustics, hull integrity, ship control, logistics and other matters under one $19.8 million contract modification. […] More

  • Jacobs Engineering to Support PennDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems; Randy Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Engineering to Support PennDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract to provide design, system integration and communication network and construction management support services for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s intelligent transportation systems, Jacobs said Tuesday. Randy Pierce, Jacobs group vice president, said the contract continues the company’s relationship with PennDOT. He added that the company has been providing similar services since 2008. Jacobs is […] More

  • Tom Watson: SAIC Aims to Help SSC Atlantic Gain Interoperability Under ISR Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Watson: SAIC Aims to Help SSC Atlantic Gain Interoperability Under ISR Task Order

    Science Applications International Corp. will help the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic manage production engineering and logistics for the branch’s Distributed Common Ground System under a potential one-year, $13 million task order. Tom Watson, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s the Navy and Marine Corps customer group, said Tuesday the company will work on system […] More

  • Sherif Hamoudah: SAP Seeks MENA Mobility Market Growth Presence Through Telecom Deals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sherif Hamoudah: SAP Seeks MENA Mobility Market Growth Presence Through Telecom Deals

    SAP has moved to grow its mobile services market presence in the Middle East and North Africa region by signing agreements with telecommunications companies STC and Etisalat for enterprise mobility and network life-cycle management tools, Gulf Business reported Monday. Aarti Nagraj writes SAP announced the deals with Saudi Arabia-based STC and United Arab Emirates-based Etisalat at […] More

  • Datawatch Data Discovery Products Available on Carahsoft's GSA Schedule; Ben Plummer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Datawatch Data Discovery Products Available on Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule; Ben Plummer Comments

    Carahsoft Technology will offer public sector customers and partners access to Datawatch‘s visual data discovery products through a General Services Administration contracting vehicle. Carahsoft said Monday that Datawatch’s tools work to access and analyze volumes of data from different sources in a visual data discovery environment and are built to help users identify problems, patterns and trends. […] More

  • Leidos Wins Contract to Support Annapolis Md. Facility; Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Wins Contract to Support Annapolis Md. Facility; Sam Gordy Comments

    Leidos has won a five-year prime contract worth an estimated $16 million from Boston Properties and Konterra Realty to support information technology, help desk services, security and facilities management at a multi-tenant facility. Work under the contract, which is part of the Facility Mega Center Operations and Maintenance vehicle, will be performed at Annapolis Junction, Md., Leidos said Monday. Sam Gordy, Leidos group […] More

  • FireEye’s Kenneth Geers: IT Officers Seek Clues as Cyber Attacks Proliferate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye’s Kenneth Geers: IT Officers Seek Clues as Cyber Attacks Proliferate

    Evolving tactics and the speed of how the number of cyber attacks has grown are leaving infrastructure vulnerable as technology officers increasingly scramble for new ways to predict a strike, FireEye Senior Global Threat Analyst Kenneth Geers has warned. “Across the board, we are seeing a global expansion of APTs, malware, CnC infrastructure and the use of publicly […] More

  • Lillian Ryals: MITRE, Air Navigation Org Offer Aviation System Framework Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lillian Ryals: MITRE, Air Navigation Org Offer Aviation System Framework Training

    MITRE Corp. and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation have launched a training program for air navigation service providers, civil aviation authorities and industry partners on the implementation of the Aviation System Block Upgrades framework, both organizations said Monday. Jeff Poole, CANSO director general, said training on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s ASBU methodology is expected to guide the planning and […] More

  • Raydon Gates: Lockheed, Australian Defense Org Forge Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raydon Gates: Lockheed, Australian Defense Org Forge Tech Partnership

    Lockheed Martin Australia and the country’s defense and science technology organization have formed a 10-year alliance to collaborate on research and development work into technology. “We have agreed to undertake joint research in a range of areas including predictive logistics, trusted assurance, the Aegis combat system, over the horizon radar, hypersonics and operational analysis,” Alex Zelinsky, the […] More

  • Dan Allen: Serco to Help Marines Carry Out Training, Simulation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Allen: Serco to Help Marines Carry Out Training, Simulation

    Serco Inc. will help the U.S. Marine Corps hold warfighting seminars, combat rehearsals and simulations under a potential $18 million training systems support contract. The company will deliver support for the Combat Instructor School, collaborative tools, web development, command-and-control systems and training, Serco said Friday. “The Marines mission is critical to our national security and we are proud to support them […] More

  • Report: LTE Spending to Hit $2B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: LTE Spending to Hit $2B by 2020

    Market spending on public safety LTE infrastructure could reach $2 billion per year by 2020 due to increasing demand for the mobile broadband standard, according to new analysis from Reportsnreports.com. The number of installed base stations will hit almost 155,000 at a 60-percent compound annual growth rate between 2014 and 2020, serving close to 4 […] More