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  • ManTech to Design, Maintain Web-Based VA Terminology Tooling Suite; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Design, Maintain Web-Based VA Terminology Tooling Suite; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International has been awarded a potential two-year, $25.6 million contract to develop, deploy and maintain a terminology tooling web service for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company will design VA’s web-based enterprise terminology tooling suite and a computer-based terminology integrated development environment, ManTech said Thursday. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s mission solutions […] More

  • Alion Receives Air Force Spectrum Mgmt Contract; Chris Amos Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Receives Air Force Spectrum Mgmt Contract; Chris Amos Comments

    Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a five-year, $15 million contract to provide spectrum management services to the U.S. Air Force in support of national security needs. Alion will help the Air Force Spectrum Management Office conduct strategic planning and policy recommendations, satellite coordination, spectrum reallocation, research and technical analyses of commercial spectrum sharing […] More

  • Harris to Refresh Air Force Electronic Self-Protection Units; Rich Sorelle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Refresh Air Force Electronic Self-Protection Units; Rich Sorelle Comments

    Harris Corp. has been selected to overhaul the fixed-wing electronic self-protection units installed in the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 bomber and C-130 aircraft in an effort to defend against radio-frequency threats. The Air Force will continue to maintain the use of AN/ALQ-172 electronic warfare system on the B-52 aircraft for RF self-protection through the late 2040s, […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Virtual Training Tools for US Navy; Ryan Kilgore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Virtual Training Tools for US Navy; Ryan Kilgore Comments

    Charles River Analytics Inc. has been awarded a nearly $1 million contract to develop virtual training tools for the U.S. Navy in an effort to help the service meet its training requirements. The Shiphandling Educator Assistant for Managing Assessments in Training Environments tool works to assist instructors in monitoring and engaging with more students, Charles […] More

  • Navy Uses General Dynamics Manpack Radio for Lockheed MUOS Tests; Mike DiBiase Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Uses General Dynamics Manpack Radio for Lockheed MUOS Tests; Mike DiBiase Comments

    General Dynamics‘ manpack radio has connected government users to Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellites during a demonstration conducted by the U.S. Army. The two-channel AN/PRC-155 MUOS-Manpack radio runs the soldier radio waveform and the single-channel ground and airborne radio system waveform with the MUOS waveform, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “These radios connect the […] More

  • PAR Technology Lands $3M Naval Radio Transmitter Maintenance Contract; Matt Cicchinelli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Technology Lands $3M Naval Radio Transmitter Maintenance Contract; Matt Cicchinelli Comments

    PAR Technology‘s Rome Research Corp. subsidiary has received a five-year, $3 million contract from Delta Solutions & Strategies to help operate and maintain telecommunications systems at a Dixon, California-based naval radio transmitter facility. The naval radio transmitter serves as the U.S. Navy’s high frequency global communication systems transmitter facility for the West Coast, PAR said […] More

  • Army Deploys Wireless Connection by HPE's Aruba to Command Posts Worldwide - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Deploys Wireless Connection by HPE’s Aruba to Command Posts Worldwide

    The U.S. Army has begun to field a wireless connection infrastructure developed by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to various command posts worldwide. Command Post Wi-Fi, an 802.11ac wireless infrastructure, is implemented at Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve tactical units as part of the Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 1 communications network, Aruba said […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Anti-Ship Missile Defense for Navy; Rick Nelson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos Anti-Ship Missile Defense for Navy; Rick Nelson Comments

    Raytheon has demonstrated an anti-ship missile defense system built for the U.S. Navy during a live-fire test at China Lake in California. The SeaRAM defense system intercepted an inbound threat using a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 during the exercise, Raytheon said Monday. Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon’s naval and area mission defense product line, […] More

  • Authentic8 Expands into Federal Market, Hires Glen Sharlun as Federal Operations Chief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Authentic8 Expands into Federal Market, Hires Glen Sharlun as Federal Operations Chief

    Glen Sharlun, formerly a federal sales executive at ArcSight and Hewlett-Packard, has joined Authentic8, provider of the cloud-based browser Silo, as head of federal operations. Sharlun’s appointment is part of the company’s efforts to expand into the federal market, Authentic8 said Thursday. “Government employees, perhaps more than employees of commercial enterprises, need a completely secure […] More

  • SAP Gets CBP Automated Commercial Environment Certification; Kevin McCollom Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Gets CBP Automated Commercial Environment Certification; Kevin McCollom Comments

    SAP has received a U.S. Customs and Border Protection certification to operate in automated commercial environments for entry summaries. CBP intends implement electronic single window information technology products in automated commercial environments by the end of 2016, SAP said Monday. “With our commitment to continuous innovation, including the recent announcement for ACE certification, we can help our […] More

  • General Atomics Completes Railgun Projectiles Open Range Tests; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Completes Railgun Projectiles Open Range Tests; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics has completed open range tests on projectiles fired from the company’s 3-megajoule Blitzer electromagnetic railgun designed for a Control and Actuation System. During the tests, the projectiles relayed the performance of prototype components to a ground station via a telemetry link, General Atomics said Friday. The tests were conducted in December 2015 at the U.S. […] More