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  • Booz Allen Receives NATO Training, Program Support Contract; Charlie Hamilton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Receives NATO Training, Program Support Contract; Charlie Hamilton Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential three-year contract to assist in NATO’s training, analysis and program support for several clients. The company will provide implementation, operations and continuous improvement services to the NATO Communications and Information Agency in support of NATO member countries, Booz Allen said Tuesday. Charlie Hamilton, a Booz Allen vice […] More

  • Tim Meehan: GSA Approves CenturyLink’s Cloud, Managed Hosting Contract Extensions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Meehan: GSA Approves CenturyLink’s Cloud, Managed Hosting Contract Extensions

    CenturyLink Inc. has been awarded a three-year contract extension to continue its cloud and managed hosting services to federal agencies under the General Services Administration‘s Networx program. The company’s Networx Universal and Enterprise contracts will proceed through 2020 past their scheduled expiration date in 2017, CenturyLink said Monday. “We’re pleased that GSA has approved CenturyLink’s Networx contract […] More

  • BAE Systems to Develop New Navy Electronic Warfare Tech; Steve Hedges Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems to Develop New Navy Electronic Warfare Tech; Steve Hedges Comments

    BAE Systems has received an $11 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a new electronic warfare technology intended to help detect and determine radio frequency sources. The Full-Spectrum Staring Receiver will work to monitor the battlefield, track emitters, issue threat warning and cue countermeasure methods, BAE Systems said Monday. Steve Hedges, […] More

  • Invincea, Cloudburst Security Form Managed Security Partnership; Anup Ghosh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Invincea, Cloudburst Security Form Managed Security Partnership; Anup Ghosh Comments

    Invincea and Cloudburst Security have formed a partnership to provide managed security, integration and professional services offering to customers. Cloudburst will combine its security monitoring and engineering services with the endpoint security technology from Invincea to deliver managed security to small, mid-size and large businesses, Cloudburst said Monday. “We are pleased to partner with Cloudburst […] More

  • Sivananthan Laboratories Unit, NASA Launch X-Ray Astronomy Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sivananthan Laboratories Unit, NASA Launch X-Ray Astronomy Satellite

    NASA has launched an X-ray astronomy satellite equipped with an imaging technology developed by EPIR Technologies Inc., a Sivananthan Laboratories company. EPIR built the imaging system for ASTRO-H’s soft X-ray spectrometer designed to measure the energy of soft X-rays in order to view astronomical phenomena, Sivananthan Laboratories said Thursday. “We are honored to have worked […] More

  • American Systems Completes First Phase Of Defense Healthcare Mgmt Testing Infrastructure; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems Completes First Phase Of Defense Healthcare Mgmt Testing Infrastructure; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has completed phase one of the testing infrastructure for the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems under a General Services Administration Connections II contract. West Virginia-based Allegany Ballistics Laboratory hosts the testing infrastructure to maintain information technology systems, applications, networks and virtual environments, American Systems said Monday. “American Systems is delighted to be […] More

  • ServiceNow Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Certification; Steve Alfieris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ServiceNow Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Certification; Steve Alfieris Comments

    ServiceNow’s cloud platform offering has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification from the U.S. government. The interagency Joint Authorization Board awarded the FedRAMP provisional authorization to operate to ServiceNow after the company passed the federal risk management process, ServiceNow said Monday. “Given the rigorous requirements to achieve this level of compliance, which […] More

  • Dell Unveils New Threat Protection Offering; Patrick Sweeney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Unveils New Threat Protection Offering; Patrick Sweeney Comments

    Dell has introduced a new advanced threat protection service intended to help customers protect their assets from sophisticated cyber threats. The Dell SonicWALL Capture offering incorporates the VMRay Analyzer threat detection analysis engine and the Lastline breach detection platform to form a multi-layer cybersecurity tool, Dell said Monday. Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product management and […] More

  • State Dept Clears Potential $115M F-16 Engine Repair Deal with Jordan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Clears Potential $115M F-16 Engine Repair Deal with Jordan

    The State Department has approved a potential $115.1 million foreign military sales agreement for Pratt and Whitney to provide F-16 engine repair and sustainment services to Jordan. Jordan intends for the agreement to support the its air force’s efforts to maintain 52 F100-PW-220E engines, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday. Pratt and Whitney will work […] More

  • Jeff Babione: Lockheed Can Handle F-35 Block Buy in FY 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Babione: Lockheed Can Handle F-35 Block Buy in FY 2017

    Lockheed Martin has said it maintains the capability to produce F-35 fighter jets to fulfill a potential block buy from the program’s international partners in fiscal year 2017, Defense News reported Thursday. Jeff Babione, Lockheed’s F-35 program manager, said the Joint Program Office must finalize its decision within the next six months so that Lockheed will be able to […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Standoff Missile into Polish Aircraft; Bob Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Standoff Missile into Polish Aircraft; Bob Adams Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $7.9 million contract to integrate the joint air-to-surface standoff missile into the Polish air force’s F-16C/D aircraft under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Air Force. Work under the contract will support certification and flight activities and will complete in 2018, Lockheed said Thursday. “JASSM’s high reliability […] More

  • FEMA to Adopt Compusearch Acquisition Mgmt System; Reid Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FEMA to Adopt Compusearch Acquisition Mgmt System; Reid Jackson Comments

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency will adopt an acquisition management system designed by Compusearch to act as FEMA’s official contract writing system. FEMA will use the PRISM system to interface with the agency’s financial management system and more than 300 contracting professionals and other acquisition workers at the agency will have access to the tool, Compusearch said Friday. The Department of […] More