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  • Lockheed Orders F-35 Aluminum Flat Rolled Material from AMI Metals; Scott Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Orders F-35 Aluminum Flat Rolled Material from AMI Metals; Scott Smith Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a a five-year, $300 million contract to a Reliance Steel & Aluminum subsidiary to produce aluminum flat rolled materials for the F-35 fighter jet. Brentwood, Tennessee-based AMI Metals will supply aluminum plates to Lockheed partner and subcontractor facilities for F-35, Reliance Steel said Monday. AMI Metals will build the materials between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2021. “AMI […] More

  • CACI Receives $50M Army Intell, Info Warfare Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives $50M Army Intell, Info Warfare Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a two-year, $50 million task order to assist the U.S. Army in the service branch’s work to develop tools and applications for human and signals intelligence operations. The company said Monday it will perform end-to-end lifecycle management, training and maintenance under the Alliant contract vehicle for the Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate. Ken Asbury, […] More

  • SpaceX to Launch Two Satellites in December - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX to Launch Two Satellites in December

    SpaceX will return to flight in December with two scheduled satellite launches onboard the Falcon 9 vehicle, Space News reported Friday. Peter de Selding writes SpaceX plans to send 11 Orbcomm messaging satellites to low Earth orbit in mid-December and later the SES-9 telecommunications satellite into a higher orbit. Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX will test reignition for […] More

  • QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has earned authorization to operate its Richmond and Atlanta-Metro data centers under security requirements based on the Federal Information Security Management Act. Third party assessment organization Veris Group conducted the tests for QTS’ data center and colocation services following the latest version of FISMA, QTS said Thursday. “In this time of increased […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering

    Amazon Web Services has introduced a fresh data transport tool for customers designed to transfer large volumes of data using secure appliances. AWS Import/Export Snowball works to transport up to 50 terabytes of data into and out of AWS and protect the transfer process with secure enclosures, 256-bit encryption and a trusted platform module, AWS […] More

  • CACI Receives Justice Department Content Mgmt Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives Justice Department Content Mgmt Task Order

    CACI International has received a five-year, $22 million task order to implement the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives content management system. The system is designed to capture documents, license explosives, track firearms and process fugitive warrant records, CACI said Thursday. CACI will also develop agile software, maintain software systems, update applications and […] More

  • U.S. Attorney’s Office Picks SAMS for Witness Mgmt, Legal Services; Staci Redmon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    U.S. Attorney’s Office Picks SAMS for Witness Mgmt, Legal Services; Staci Redmon Comments

    Strategy and Management Services has been selected to perform witness management and legal services for the United States Attorney and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. SAMS will work to standardize witness management procedures in order to help the executive office for United States Attorney follow new statutory requirements, SAMS said Tuesday. […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Produce Small Caliber Ammunition for US Army; Kent Holiday Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Produce Small Caliber Ammunition for US Army; Kent Holiday Comments

    Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has been awarded a contract to produce small caliber ammunitions worth $203 million for the U.S. Army. The Army recently placed orders for .30 caliber, .50 caliber, 5.56mm and 7.62mm ammunition under the seven-year contract, the company said Wednesday. Orbital ATK will perform work at its recently updated factory in Lake City. Our commitment to world class […] More

  • Firefly to Test Launch NASA CubeSat; Thomas Markusic, Garrett Skrobot Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Firefly to Test Launch NASA CubeSat; Thomas Markusic, Garrett Skrobot Comment

    Firefly Space Systems has been awarded a $5.5 million contract to test launch NASA’s CubeSat into space in March 2018. Thomas Markusic, Firefly’s CEO, said Wednesday the company developed Firefly Alpha over the last 18 months. Firefly Alpha is designed to lift a 881-pound payload to a 248-mile equatorial orbit. Garrett Skrobot, lead for the educational launch of nanosatellites mission […] More

  • ICF Receives Health Informatics Task Orders from CDC; Randy Rutledge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Receives Health Informatics Task Orders from CDC; Randy Rutledge Comments

    ICF International has received two task orders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worth $21.9 million combined to maintain CDC’s HIV/AIDS surveillance system and analyze health-related data. ICF will operate CDC’s reporting system designed to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. under a $6.9 million task order from the National Center for […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Veterans Educational Benefits Processing System; Horace Blackman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Veterans Educational Benefits Processing System; Horace Blackman Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected Lockheed Martin’s Systems Made Simple subsidiary to update a system the VA uses to process educational benefits for veterans and their families. Systems Made Simple will collaborate with the VA to identify and select beneficiaries, monitor education outcomes and refresh interfaces for the Chapter 33 system, Lockheed said Wednesday. “Lockheed Martin is […] More