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  • SRI International to Develop Contraceptive Products for NICHD; Toufan Parman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International to Develop Contraceptive Products for NICHD; Toufan Parman Comments

    SRI International has received a $40 million contract to develop new contraceptive products for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development. SRI Biosciences will perform the preclinical development and testing of potential therapeutic products in compliance with Investigational New Drug requirements, SRI said Tuesday. “We are pleased to continue supporting this […] More

  • Intel Launches New Security Strategy, Products; Chris Young Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Launches New Security Strategy, Products; Chris Young Comments

    Intel Security has renewed its strategy to focus on integrated and open security system in an effort to help customers combat cyber attacks. The new corporate strategy is intended to bolster endpoint and cloud security systems by unifying the threat defense lifecycle, Intel said Tuesday. “The rising volume and complexity of attacks present a vicious cycle […] More

  • Cobham to Develop Army Landmine Detector; Tom Garvey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham to Develop Army Landmine Detector; Tom Garvey Comments

    Cobham has received a three-year, $4.17 million contract to produce landmine detection systems for the U.S. Army. The company will develop a demonstrator handheld technology that will work to identify explosive devices buried in the ground, Cobham said Tuesday. “As a result of this program Cobham will deliver enhanced handheld counter-explosive hazard detection systems for […] More

  • AAR Receives Military Sealift Command Vertical Replenishment Contract; Steven Harrison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR Receives Military Sealift Command Vertical Replenishment Contract; Steven Harrison Comments

    AAR has received a one-year, $6.7 million renewed contract from the Military Sealift Command to continue the company’s vertical replenishment services for U.S. Navy helicopters. The company will carry out work for the Navy’s 5th and 7th Fleets in the Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean, AAR said Monday. Steven Harrison, president of AAR’s airlift […] More

  • Bob Day & Associates-WidePoint Team to Pursue Homeland Security, Cyber Markets; Steve Komar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Day & Associates-WidePoint Team to Pursue Homeland Security, Cyber Markets; Steve Komar Comments

    WidePoint and consulting firm Bob Day & Associates have formed a partnership to pursue business opportunities in the homeland security and cyber technology markets. Retired Coast Guard Rear Adm. Robert Day Jr., principal at Bob Day & Associates, will collaborate with WidePoint to seek new homeland security and cyber clients, WidePoint said Tuesday. “We are […] More

  • TeraThink to Maintain Washington Headquarters Services’ Biz Accountability System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TeraThink to Maintain Washington Headquarters Services’ Biz Accountability System

    TeraThink has been awarded a three-year, $18.4 million contract to operate and maintain Washington Headquarters Services’ enterprise business accountability system. TeraThink said Monday the company will work to manage the program and organizational change, integrate systems and support the training for WHS’ business accountability system environment. The company will assist WHS GRC users to monitor […] More

  • US Navy Picks Serco, SAIC for Integrated Systems Installation IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Picks Serco, SAIC for Integrated Systems Installation IDIQ

    Serco Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. have received one-year contracts worth $17,959,283 and $17,113,248, respectively, to install integrated systems ashore or on board the U.S. Navy’s ships. The companies will compete for task orders to assist in the transition, fabrication, integration and procurement of systems under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

  • Moog Hands ORBCOMM Satellite Dispenser to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moog Hands ORBCOMM Satellite Dispenser to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

    Moog has delivered a satellite dispenser for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 satellites to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite dispenser uses Moog’s SoftRide system to protect the payload from shock and vibration during launch, Moog said Monday. Moog will integrate the dispenser and spacecraft assembly at the SpaceX CCAFS facility. These ORBCOMM satellites […] More

  • RSA Adds EyeVerify Biometrics to Authentication Software Development Kit; Angel Grant Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Adds EyeVerify Biometrics to Authentication Software Development Kit; Angel Grant Comments

    RSA has incorporated EyeVerify’s eye biometrics system into the company’s authentication software development kit for mobile applications. The addition of Eyeprint ID to RSA’s offering serves as an extra security layer to RSA’s eye-based biometric authentication, EyeVerify said Monday. “Eyeprint ID gives organizations and their end users a simple authentication option to help secure mobile […] More

  • 18F Kicks Off Micro-Purchasing Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    18F Kicks Off Micro-Purchasing Experiment

    The General Services Administration’s 18F has released a new contract to solicit bids from industry as part of its open-source micro-purchasing experiment. David Zvenyach, 18F’s acquisition management director, wrote in a blog post published Monday that 18F has tagged a micro-purchase product from its product backlog for the contract award labor category. Initial bid for […] More

  • Penguin Computing to Produce High-Performance Computers for Nat'l Labs; Doug Wade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Penguin Computing to Produce High-Performance Computers for Nat’l Labs; Doug Wade Comments

    Penguin Computing has been awarded a $39 million contract to produce high-performance computing systems for use in stockpile stewardship tasks at the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. Lawrence Livermore picked Penguin Computing to provide more than 7 Petaflops of computing as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s tri-lab advanced simulation and computing […] More

  • Symantec, Tata Consultancy Services Form Analytics-Based Security Partnership; Anirban Chakravartti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec, Tata Consultancy Services Form Analytics-Based Security Partnership; Anirban Chakravartti Comments

    Symantec and Tata Consultancy Services have forged an analytics-based security alliance for customers. The companies will combine their respective security technologies in order to establish joint security services offerings, Tata Consultancy Services said Friday. Anirban Chakravartti, head of global alliances at Symantec, said the joint offerings are intended to deliver “technology, intelligence and expertise in areas […] More