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  • MCR Awarded $50M NATO Comm, Info Systems Contract; Vince Kiernan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MCR Awarded $50M NATO Comm, Info Systems Contract; Vince Kiernan Comments

    MCR Federal has received a three-year, $50 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform communications and information services for NATO. The company said Monday it will work to design processes, manage quality, handle risks, provide change management and perform other general business services for NATO’s Communications and Information Agency. NATO’s NCI Agency provides communications and information systems for the alliance’s […] More

  • ManTech to Maintain Army ISR System; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Maintain Army ISR System; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International Corp. has been awarded a potential two-year, $31.6 million contract to provide technical services for the U.S. Army’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance work. ManTech will work to maintain software and provide training on the Distributed Common Ground System-Army system, the company said Monday. The contract contains a one-year base period and one 12-month option. […] More

  • NASA Hands Down Small Satellite Contracts; Jim Norman, Michael Freilich Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Hands Down Small Satellite Contracts; Jim Norman, Michael Freilich Comment

    NASA has awarded approximately $17.1 million in contracts to Firefly Space Systems, Rocket Lab USA and Virgin Galactic to launch small satellites — or CubeSats — to low-Earth orbit. Jim Norman, director of launch services at NASA, said Oct. 14 the space agency’s launch services program aims to help transport smaller payloads into orbit through commercial […] More

  • Morpho to Produce Explosives Trace Detector for DHS; Karen Bomba Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Morpho to Produce Explosives Trace Detector for DHS; Karen Bomba Comments

    Morpho has been awarded a nearly $1 million contract to produce explosives trace detector for the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate. Morpho Detection will develop the company’s Itemiser DX Air Cargo detector kit meant to update the threat library for new explosives, Morpho said Wednesday. The prototype kits are scheduled for delivery […] More

  • BAE Systems Invests in Reaction Engines’ New Aerospace Engine; Nigel Whitehead Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Invests in Reaction Engines’ New Aerospace Engine; Nigel Whitehead Comments

    BAE Systems Plc has forged a partnership with Reaction Engines to inject $31.85 million into the latter company’s development work for a new class of aerospace engine. BAE said Monday it will purchase 20 percent of Reaction Engines’ share capital and Reaction Engines will have access to BAE’s industrial, technical and capital resources in order to demonstrate […] More

  • DHS Picks HRL University of Michigan for Automotive Cybersecurity Research; Reginald Brothers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Picks HRL University of Michigan for Automotive Cybersecurity Research; Reginald Brothers Comments

    HRL Laboratories and the University of Michigan have received contracts from the Department of Homeland Security respectively worth $2.5 million and $1.2 million to develop cybersecurity tools for government- and privately-owned vehicles. The HRL team led by David Payton will develop a physical disturbance detection system in order to raise an early warning signal when an […] More

  • Steven Picot: Ascolta Adds Cyber Readiness, Analytics to Threat Response Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Picot: Ascolta Adds Cyber Readiness, Analytics to Threat Response Efforts

    Ascolta, a subsidiary of ViON Corp., has launched to offer cybersecurity products and services as part of efforts to address threats to the government and private sector. Steven Picot, president of Ascolta, said Wednesday the company aims to go beyond the traditional cybersecurity approach “by applying emerging cyber readiness technology, machine analytics and cross-organization collaboration […] More

  • Engineering Services Network Lands Army IT Contract; Douglas Lopez Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engineering Services Network Lands Army IT Contract; Douglas Lopez Comments

    Engineering Services Network Inc. has received a $1 million task order to perform information technology support for the U.S. Army’s Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri-based maneuver support battle laboratory. CEO Douglas Lopez said Thursday the company will work to administer, operate, maintain and repair IT systems for the lab. MSBL performs simulations and analysis as part of […] More

  • SAP NS2, Altamira Form Big Data Analytics Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2, Altamira Form Big Data Analytics Partnership

    A U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP and Altamira Technologies have forged an alliance to combine their big data analytics platforms into a joint offering as the companies seek help clients discover relationships in their data. Altamira said Friday it will incorporate SAP’s in-memory database and computation engine HANA with the former company’s LUMIFY big data fusion, analytic and visualization platform. LUMIFY is designed to help […] More

  • CGI, DB Schenker Extend Logistics Outsourcing Agreement; Par Fors Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI, DB Schenker Extend Logistics Outsourcing Agreement; Par Fors Comments

    CGI and DB Schenker have inked a four-year, $7.6 million outsourcing agreement to develop and manage applications for DB Schenker’s transport and logistics business. CGI will build applications intended to handle DB Schenker’s package and freight, CGI said Wednesday. “We see this new agreement as confirmation of the value we are delivering, and we look […] More

  • GovCon Firms Eye Digital Defense Contracting Activity; Nadia Short Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Firms Eye Digital Defense Contracting Activity; Nadia Short Comments

    Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics are potential bidders on the Defense Department’s $460 million digital services contract in support of U.S. Cyber Command, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Chris Strohm writes the Pentagon has increased spending on cyber over the past two fiscal years even as spending declines on other programs. Nadia Short, vice president and […] More

  • TCS Patents Public Safety, Mapping, Messaging Services; Maurice Tose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS Patents Public Safety, Mapping, Messaging Services; Maurice Tose Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has obtained new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the company’s public safety, mapping, messaging and location-based services. Among the patented systems, the Voice-over Internet Protocol E911 metro street address guide is intended to determine the location of a 911 caller, TCS said Wednesday. The company also obtained a patent […] More