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  • CertiPath Lands ID Credential, Access Mgmt Contract With GSA; Shawn Hughes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CertiPath Lands ID Credential, Access Mgmt Contract With GSA; Shawn Hughes Comments

    The General Services Administration has awarded CertiPath a contract to provide identity credential and access management services to the federal government. CertiPath said Tuesday it will help GSA analyze, coordinate, define and recommend standards for civilian agencies to implement Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management technology as well as develop functional requirements for physical and logical access control products. Work […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification

    Raytheon will provide seven multi-spectral targeting systems in D configuration to the U.S. Navy under a $19.2 million modification to a previously awarded job order. The Defense Department said Tuesday the MTS airborne sensor works to provide long-range surveillance, high altitude target acquisition, tracking, and range-finding capability to military users. The technology is designed to adapt to future updates and incorporates multiple fields […] More

  • SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments

    SGT has been awarded a three-year, $45 million contract to supply meteorological observational data from non-federal observing networks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA plans to use the observation data to support meteorological, hydrologic and related environmental observing systems that are designed to facilitate local-scale weather event prediction, SGT said Monday. SGT will collaborate with Earth […] More

  • PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development

    PaxVax has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department to produce a commercial vaccine for the chikungunya virus. The company said Thursday it licensed NIH’s virus-like particle vaccine technology for chikungunya and aims to fully commercialize the vaccine through the collaborative effort. NIH currently evaluates the vaccine under a second-phase trial and PaxVax noted it plans […] More

  • Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a potential $45 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide integration, engineering, operations and maintenance support for the Defense Department. The company said Monday it will work to integrate and modify commercial off-the-shelf non-developmental items, perform integrated technology services, manage projects, install hardware and software, update […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for three of the company’s GovCloud service offerings for U.S. government clients. The board issued high baseline certifications for AWS’ Relational Database Service for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgresSQL; Amazon CloudWatch Logs; and AWS CloudTrail, the company said Friday. “We are […] More

  • IHS Markit Predicts Global Unmanned Vehicle Sales Growth Through 2025; Derrick Maple Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Markit Predicts Global Unmanned Vehicle Sales Growth Through 2025; Derrick Maple Comments

    A report from IHS Markit forecasts that sales of unmanned ground, sea and aerial vehicles will increase through 2025 as military organizations increasingly use such platforms to conduct missions. IHS Jane’s predicts 63,000 new unmanned aerial vehicles will be sold from 2016 to 2025 and surpass $82 billion in global sales during the 10-year forececast period, IHS Markit said Monday. […] More

  • Siemens, Omnetric Group, CPS Energy Deploy Microgrid System at San Antonio Military Post; Mike Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Omnetric Group, CPS Energy Deploy Microgrid System at San Antonio Military Post; Mike Carlson Comments

    Siemens, Omnetric Group and CPS Energy have worked together to deploy a microgrid system at Joint Base San Antonio – Fort Sam Houston as part of the Energy Department‘s effort to integrate disparate renewable resources. The system comprises a 20-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array, a 48-kilowatt hour battery, a weather station and a microgrid controller, Siemens said Thursday. The […] More

  • DLT Adds Sqrrl’s Threat Detection Products to GSA Schedule; Jeremy Young Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Adds Sqrrl’s Threat Detection Products to GSA Schedule; Jeremy Young Comments

    DLT Solutions will offer Sqrrl’s threat hunting products to government agencies via the General Services Administration Schedule contracting vehicle. Sqrrl developed its threat detection system to help organizations detect, hunt and disrupt cyber threats through analytics, machine learning, petabyte scalability and link analysis methods, DLT said Thursday. The platform is designed to hunt for security threats that have bypassed other computer  defenses. […] More

  • France Orders Thales Mini Reconnaissance UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France Orders Thales Mini Reconnaissance UAVs

    Thales has been selected to supply up to 210 mini unmanned aerial vehicles to France beginning next year in an effort to help the country’s armed forces access imagery in real time. France’s defense procurement agency asked the company to provide Spy’Ranger  reconnaissance UAVs, ground equipment and related technical support to the French military, Thales said Thursday. Jean-Pascal Arrou-Vignod, […] More

  • Sevatec to Help DHS Manage Homeland Security Info Network; Chris Cole Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec to Help DHS Manage Homeland Security Info Network; Chris Cole Comments

    Sevatec has received a task order to help the Department of Homeland Security operate and maintain an enterprise information network that works to help stakeholders access and share data in a secure environment. The company will provide application and help desk support for the Homeland Security Information Network, the Common Operating Picture and other information sharing systems, Sevatec said […] More

  • AFRL Picks BAE to Deploy Security Systems for Intell Sharing; DeEtte Gray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFRL Picks BAE to Deploy Security Systems for Intell Sharing; DeEtte Gray Comments

    BAE Systems has received a potential five-year, $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to deploy and maintain systems built to secure information sharing across government networks. The data-sharing technologies that BAE is tasked to deliver under the Systems Engineering and Evaluation System Analysis Worldwide Cross Domain contract will work to support the Defense Department, […] More