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  • VSE Subsidiary to Maintain US Military’s Medical Asset Repository; Maurice Gauthier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Subsidiary to Maintain US Military’s Medical Asset Repository; Maurice Gauthier Comments

    A VSE Corp. subsidiary has been selected to develop and maintain the U.S. military’s joint medical asset repository system under a nearly $14.9 million task order. Akimeka LLC will provide core sustainment for the web-based application that services military logisticians, military planners and healthcare providers, VSE said Wednesday. The contract contains an 11-month base period […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Environmental Tests on NASA’s Mars Lander; Stu Spath Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Environmental Tests on NASA’s Mars Lander; Stu Spath Comments

    Lockheed Martin has kicked off environmental tests on NASA’s InSight Mars spacecraft after the company completed system assembly work. InSight Mars will be subjected to a thermal vacuum test in the spacecraft’s cruise configuration, reverberant acoustic, separation and deployment shock, and electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing at Lockheed’s facilities near Denver, the company said Wednesday. Lockheed […] More

  • ManTech to Develop Intell Systems for US Marine Corps; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Develop Intell Systems for US Marine Corps; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International has been awarded a five-year, $39.8 million contract to develop and integrate intelligence systems for the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it would perform research, engineering, testing and evaluation support on the Marine Corps’ program manager marine intelligence system. “ManTech has provided IT, intelligence, and logistics solutions to the U.S. military for […] More

  • Interior Dept Orders A-T Solutions Field Diagramming Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Interior Dept Orders A-T Solutions Field Diagramming Tools

    The Interior Department has ordered an in-field diagramming tool for law enforcement and emergency response reporting tasks from A-T Solutions. A-T Solutions will provide 1,500 licenses of its V6 Easy Street Draw tool and maintenance services to the department, the company said Wednesday. The tool is designed to help law enforcers and first responders collect […] More

  • CTC Subsidiary Launches Info Mgmt Software Tool; David Davis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Subsidiary Launches Info Mgmt Software Tool; David Davis Comments

    A Concurrent Technologies Corp. subsidiary has introduced a new online information management software product in an effort to help customers share location-based situational awareness data across different domains. Enterprise Ventures Corp. built the web-based TrackerEM application for users to plan their emergency response activities, create and export marked-up maps and operate information sharing situations, CTC said Tuesday. […] More

  • DHS Seeks Proposals for Detainee Telephone Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Proposals for Detainee Telephone Services

    The Department of Homeland Security has launched a solicitation for telephone services for various detention centers nationwide. The solicitation released May 6 seeks proposals for a telephone network for contract detention facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement service processing centers, state and local detention centers, and 72-hour holding facilities. DHS plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More

  • Dynetics, Lockton Form Cyber Risk Assessment Alliance for Clients; Jonathan Whitcomb Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics, Lockton Form Cyber Risk Assessment Alliance for Clients; Jonathan Whitcomb Comments

    Dynetics has agreed to open its executive-level cyber risk assessment service to Lockton Companies customers in an effort to help organizations manage and gain insights into cyber threats. Lockton’s clients in the U.S. and abroad will have direct access to QuickLook, part of Dynetics’ Cyber RiskScope portfolio of cyber risk management services, Lockton said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates US Navy Missile Onto Super Hornet; Hady Mourad Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates US Navy Missile Onto Super Hornet; Hady Mourad Comments

    Lockheed Martin has begun work to integrate the U.S. Navy’s semi-autonomous air-launched missile onto the F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, Electronic Component News Magazine reported Tuesday. Kris Osborn writes the Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency jointly developed the long range anti-ship missile as a surface and submarine-launched missile designed to track and hit targets. […] More

  • DARPA Qualifies General Atomics-Built Laser for Field Tests; Rich Bagnell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Qualifies General Atomics-Built Laser for Field Tests; Rich Bagnell Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has validated a General Atomics-built laser system for a series of field tests after the company and DARPA completed he program’s laboratory development phase. DARPA said Thursday the High-Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System is scheduled for ground-based field testing in summer under joint funds from the agency and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin to Build More Sonar Receivers for US Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin to Build More Sonar Receivers for US Navy

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $27,283,219 modification contract to build additional passive and active sonar receivers for the U.S. Navy and Japan under a foreign military sale agreement. The company will produce seven TB-37 multifunction towed array units, tow cables, electro-optical slip rings, drogues and shipping products, the Defense Department said Friday. Lockheed will perform […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Shares New NGA Tool via GitHub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Shares New NGA Tool via GitHub

    Tony Frazier, senior vice president at DigitalGlobe, has said the company recently posted a tool called MrGeo to source code sharing site GitHub, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes DigitalGlobe developed the tool under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s research and development program. The company also disclosed that it is developing fresh tools intended to help […] More

  • ICF’s Sam Visner: Info Security Analysis Group to Develop New Cyber Defense Methods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF’s Sam Visner: Info Security Analysis Group to Develop New Cyber Defense Methods

    Sam Visner, vice president and general manager for cybersecurity at ICF International, has said efforts to develop new cyber defense methods require the help of an information security analysis organization, GovInfoSecurity reported Friday. Eric Chabrow writes Visner is leading a research and development initiative to create new ways to protect the cyberspace in collaboration with […] More