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  • Tri-City Herald: DOE to Extend Pacific NW Laboratory Operations Contract with Battelle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tri-City Herald: DOE to Extend Pacific NW Laboratory Operations Contract with Battelle

    The Energy Department has opted to extend its contract with Battelle for an additional five years to to operate the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and will not hold a competition for a contract to help run PNNL, Tri-City Herald reported Friday. Annette Cary writes that the current contract will expire in September 2017 and DOE looks to continue the five-decade […] More

  • Global Tel Link Secures GSA Contract to Offer Jail Mgmt System in US Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Global Tel Link Secures GSA Contract to Offer Jail Mgmt System in US Public Sector

    Global Tel Link has received a contract from the General Services Administration via the agency’s IT Federal Supply Schedule 70 to offer the company’s in-house developed jail management system in the U.S. public sector. The Offender Management System is available for all federal, state and local government authorized users of IT Schedule 70 to be sold at GSA-approved prices, […] More

  • First European Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Begins Missile Threat Monitoring Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First European Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Begins Missile Threat Monitoring Functions

    The first European Aegis Ashore site has begun scanning for potential ballistic missile threats in the skies of southern Europe. The inauguration of the Aegis Ashore site at Deveselu air base in Romania — which utilizes Lockheed Martin‘s Aegis Combat System — completes phase two of the European Phased Adaptive Approach for allied ballistic missile defense, the company said Thursday. Brendan […] More

  • Intelsat Taps SSL to Deliver a Communications Satellite for Broadband Networking and Video Distribution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat Taps SSL to Deliver a Communications Satellite for Broadband Networking and Video Distribution

    Intelsat has selected Space Systems Loral to provide a high-power communications satellite for broadband networking and video distribution services in Africa, Europe and Asia. The Intelsat 39 will replace the SSL-built Intelsat 902 satellite launched in 2001 and feature both C-band and Ku-band transponders and use the SSL 1300 platform to support various applications such as electric propulsion, […] More

  • ID.me-Salesforce Team to Help Manage Applications for Veteran Employment Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me-Salesforce Team to Help Manage Applications for Veteran Employment Program

    ID.me has teamed up with Salesforce to manage and assess the eligibility of applicants that look to utilize the latter company’s veteran employment program. VetForce provides free access to IT and business certification courses for members of the military community and works to match transitioning veterans with job positions that fit their respective skill sets and qualifications, Salesforce said […] More

  • BAE Systems, VOP CZ Eye Czech Republic Infantry Fighting Vehicle Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems, VOP CZ Eye Czech Republic Infantry Fighting Vehicle Replacement Program

    BAE Systems and Czech Republic-based firm VOP CZ have forged an alliance in efforts to land the country’s BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement program. The team seeks to deliver CV90 infantry fighting vehicle units along with VOP CZ’s experience in design, manufacturing, assembly and engineering to the Czech Republic’s land forces in support of the program, BAE said Wednesday. […] More

  • Tel-Instrument Electronics Receives Army Orders for Test Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tel-Instrument Electronics Receives Army Orders for Test Sets

    The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.3 million order to Tel-Instrument Electronics for the delivery of CRAFT 708 units with scheduled deliveries for the second calendar year quarter. Tel-Instrument Electronics also received orders from the U.S. Navy for four CRAFT 708 test sets for the U.S. Presidential Helicopter program, Tel-Instrument Electronics said Thursday. The company also unveiled […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $40.8 million contract modification to provide engineering support for AN/SQQ-89A surface ship undersea warfare systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract for the development, integration and production of an  AN/SQQ-89A variant. The system is designed to search, detect, classify, localize and […] More

  • NetApp to Support Seminole County Public Schools through Storage & Backup-to-Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp to Support Seminole County Public Schools through Storage & Backup-to-Cloud Services

    NetApp will provide its storage and backup-to-cloud services for data access and application response to more than 40 departments across the public school district of Seminole County, Florida. The company will offer its NetApp FAS8040HA and AltaVault products to assist Seminole County schools in supporting new applications and objectives, meeting workload needs through hybrid storage array and data […] More

  • CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace

    CenturyLink will offer its colocation, cloud and security services to state and local government agencies through the G2G Marketplace online procurement portal. G2G Marketplace works to provide technology services to agencies through its website, which can also facilitate the purchase of technology and professional services with pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Rick Buyens, CenturyLink regional sales vice president, said […] More

  • BMC's Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BMC’s Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification

    BMC‘s cloud-based digital service management application has been certified under the U.S. governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program that makes the product available to federal agencies. The Agriculture Department-sponsored Remedy OnDemand service for federal agencies will use the FedRAMP-certified Amazon Web Services cloud to provide IT service management options to help clients meet mission requirements, BMC said Wednesday. “Security […] More

  • Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat'l Airspace Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat’l Airspace Integration

    A Textron business unit has established a new facility for unmanned aircraft system training and maintenance activities to support research on UAS integration into national airspace. The unmanned systems service and support center houses Textron Systems‘ training and global service operations, the company’s schoolhouse for operators and maintainers and its sustainment operations for the Aerosonde small UAS, Textron said Monday. “With this […] More