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  • ICF to Support New York Transportation Corridor Mgmt Project; Anne Choate Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF to Support New York Transportation Corridor Mgmt Project; Anne Choate Comments

    ICF has received nearly $7 million in additional funds to assist the New York Department of Transportation in efforts to manage the state’s corridors in a multimodal manner. The company said Monday it will provide program development, operational, marketing, outreach and customer services to downstate programs and extend these programs across the upstate area. ICF and NYSDOT will also […] More

  • NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract

    Science Systems and Applications Inc. has been awarded a potential $10 million contract to provide support for NASA’s atmospheric science and data assimilation research efforts. NASA said Tuesday the company will support various activities of the Earth Science Division’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Help Army Study Multirole Mission Systems Architecture Designs; Heather Robertson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Help Army Study Multirole Mission Systems Architecture Designs; Heather Robertson Comments

    The U.S. Army has partnered with Rockwell Collins to perform research on system designs and integration processes in an effort to help inform standards and architectures for future vertical lift platforms. Rockwell Collins and the Army will collaborate to study open-system architecture technologies and architectural centric model-based engineering systems required in the design and certification of mission […] More

  • IBM, NVIDIA Partner on New Artificial Intell Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, NVIDIA Partner on New Artificial Intell Tool

    IBM and NVIDIA have partnered to build a new machine learning tool in an effort to speed up how computers operate and help them learn in a human-like manner. The PowerAI deep learning software toolkit operates on the IBM Power S822LC server that incorporates the NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology and four GPUs that run AlexNet with Caffe, a […] More

  • Data Systems Analysts Re-Awarded Navy GIS Sustainment Task Order; Fran Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Data Systems Analysts Re-Awarded Navy GIS Sustainment Task Order; Fran Pierce Comments

    Data Systems Analysts will continue to maintain information management systems at various U.S. Navy facilities in Florida and Cuba under a new task order from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast. DSA said it will continue to collaborate with Critigen to assist NAVFAC SE in the deployment and sustainment of the military branch’s geographic information systems and GeoReadiness Explorer platform. […] More

  • Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership

    Mitre has partnered with BioHealth Innovation Inc. to provide cybersecurity mentorship to startup companies at the Rockville Innovation Center in Maryland. RIC houses BHI’s health technology startup accelerator Relevant Health and aims to graduate early-stage technology firms into the commercial market of Montgomery County through various resources, BHI said Monday. “This arrangement enables each party to focus on […] More

  • Louis Berger Opens New Int'l HQ in London; Thomas Topolski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger Opens New Int’l HQ in London; Thomas Topolski Comments

    Louis Berger has moved its international headquarters from Paris to Richmond, London, as part of the professional services company’s expansion efforts. The establishment of the international HQ aligns with Louis Berger’s reorganization and modernization initiative on top of the company’s three-year business strategy to grow its presence in the U.K. and in Europe, Louis Berger said Monday. Thomas […] More

  • BAE-Irving Shipbuilding JV to Pursue Canadian Naval Support Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Irving Shipbuilding JV to Pursue Canadian Naval Support Program

    BAE Systems and Irving Shipbuilding have formed a new joint venture that will compete on Canada’s Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships and Joint Support Ship In-Service Support contract. Canadian Naval Support Ltd. will combine Irving Shipbuilding’s technologies and BAE’s warship repair and maintenance expertise in pursuit of the AJISS program, BAE said Friday. BAE added that CNS aims to help […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global UAV Market to Reach $21.23B by 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global UAV Market to Reach $21.23B by 2022

    A fresh Research and Markets report suggests a growing demand for data in commercial applications will help buoy the global unmanned aerial vehicle market to reach $21.23 billion by 2022 from $5.97 billion in 2016. The report predicts the global drone market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent from 2016 […] More

  • General Atomics' Extended-Range Avenger RPA Completes 1st Flight; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Extended-Range Avenger RPA Completes 1st Flight; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business completed the maiden flight of an Avenger Extended Range remotely piloted aircraft Oct. 27 at the company’s Gray Butte flight operations facility in Palmdale, California. The Avenger ER aircraft is a variant of General Atomics’ jet-powered Predator C Avenger  and designed to have a 76-foot wingspan and fuel capacity of 2,200 […] More

  • Lockheed, Penn State Forge New Research Partnership Deal; Dan Heller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Penn State Forge New Research Partnership Deal; Dan Heller Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Pennsylvania State University have entered into a new agreement to collaborate on various studies, enhance recruitment and help finance some of the university’s programs. The partnership seeks to develop a framework to drive future research projects focused on computer science, cybersecurity, supply chain and aerospace engineering, Penn State said Thursday. Under the agreement, Penn State students […] More