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  • BAE Systems, Terma to Continue Pilot Helmet Audio Devt Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems, Terma to Continue Pilot Helmet Audio Devt Efforts

    BAE Systems and Terma will continue their collaboration on helmet audio development efforts after the conclusion of a design review on a joint development agreement product that integrates systems from both companies. Terma said Thursday a joint development agreement covers the integration of Terma’s 3D-Audio/Active Noise Reduction technology with BAE Systems’ Striker II helmet mounted display and aircraft integration and certification tasks prior to […] More

  • Optim to Supply LED Videoscope Tech to Navy's Fleet Logistics Center in San Diego - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Optim to Supply LED Videoscope Tech to Navy’s Fleet Logistics Center in San Diego

    Optim has landed an $860,000 contract to provide a light-emitting diode videoscope system to the U.S. Navy‘s fleet logistics center in San Diego. The service branch will install Optim’s FreedomView LED videoscope in vessels operated by the Commander Naval Surface Force Atlantic, the company said Monday. FreedomView is designed to help gas turbine system technicians perform preventative or corrective maintenance on gas […] More

  • Air Force, Raytheon to Continue GPS Operational Control System Modernization Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Raytheon to Continue GPS Operational Control System Modernization Work

    The U.S. Air Force can continue its program to develop a new ground-based command system for the military branch’s GPS satellite constellation after Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall certified the project to Congress, DoD News reported Friday. Karen Parrish writes Raytheon, the prime contractor on the $5.46 billion GPS Advanced Control Segment, works with DoD procurement officials to address challenges […] More

  • Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments

    An Aethlon Medical-developed medical device designed to eliminate viral pathogens from the circulatory system of infected patients has passed a milestone validation on its capacity to capture the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Aethlon said Thursday it has completed multiple milestones under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract such as the Hemopurifier stage and 29 other checkpoints […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy's Submarine Maintenance Org - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge to Provide IT Services for Navy’s Submarine Maintenance Org

    Trowbridge & Trowbridge has secured a task order under a potential three-year, $11.1 million prime contract to provide information management technology services to the Naval Sea Systems Command’s submarine maintenance, engineering, planning and procurement organization. The company said Wednesday the contract has a one-year base period and two option years and was awarded through the General Services […] More

  • NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees

    NeoSystems has launched a government contractor online resource center for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ potential 10-year, $25 billion Strategic Partner Acquisition Readiness Contract vehicle for information technology services. The company said Thursday its online resource center and lineup of jump-start events will work to prepare SPARC awardees execute and comply with the contract requirements. “Being […] More

  • Lockheed's Canada Arm to Sponsor Joint Economic Development Initiative Mentorship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Canada Arm to Sponsor Joint Economic Development Initiative Mentorship Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Canada-based arm will continue and expand its ongoing partnership with the Joint Economic Development Initiative group on the latter’s training and mentorship program. Lockheed said Wednesday the JEDI Aboriginal Business Accelerator program will work to help participating entrepreneurs in New Brunswick export and create new intellectual property that can be useful to the […] More

  • Cubic, University of Melbourne Partner to Develop Urban Transportation Systems Test Bed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic, University of Melbourne Partner to Develop Urban Transportation Systems Test Bed

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business and the University of Melbourne in Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a national connected multimodal transport test bed. The NCMT platform will use the company’s surface transport management system and support large-scale tests of emerging technology in complex urban environments, Cubic said Thursday. Cubic and the University of Melbourne also seek to explore ways to […] More

  • CloudPassage Gains FedRAMP Ready Status Under Fast-Track Cloud Provider Authorization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloudPassage Gains FedRAMP Ready Status Under Fast-Track Cloud Provider Authorization Program

    CloudPassage has secured a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready status under the first of a three-phase process that cloud service providers go through to receive an authorization to operate. CloudPassage said Wednesday it used the company’s Halo software-as-a-service platform to gain the designation through the FedRAMP Accelerated process. Halo is included on the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors, […] More

  • ULA Updates Atlas V Aerodynamic Configuration for Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft; Gary Wentz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Updates Atlas V Aerodynamic Configuration for Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft; Gary Wentz Comments

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint venture United Launch Alliance has updated the aerodynamic configuration of a rocket designed to launch a crew capsule Boeing is building for NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program. ULA said Thursday the new Atlas V configuration will incorporate an aeroskirt aft of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in efforts to extend the vehicle’s service module cylindrical surface and help manage loads margins to maintain acceptable flight levels. […] More

  • Verizon Introduces Managed IT Service for Federal Agencies; Steven LeFrancois Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Introduces Managed IT Service for Federal Agencies; Steven LeFrancois Comments

    Verizon‘s enterprise solutions business has unveiled a managed information technology service created to help U.S. federal government clients manage IT investments and comply with federal security standards. The Global Enterprise IT Management service offering includes an IT service delivery platform designed to address requirements under the Federal Information Security Management Act, Verizon said Thursday. GEITM comprises an operational framework and a unified […] More

  • Louis Berger to Support US Army Water Research Institute Under 5-Year IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Support US Army Water Research Institute Under 5-Year IDIQ Contract

    Louis Berger will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Institute for Water Research to identify strategies to address water resources management challenges in the country under a potential $47 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Thursday that contract covers most aspects of USACE’s Civil Works missions and extends Louis Berger’s support for the USACE IWR to more than 15 years. […] More