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  • SAIC-ST Kinetics Offers TERREX 2 for Marines' Amphibious Combat Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC-ST Kinetics Offers TERREX 2 for Marines’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle Program

    Science Applications International Corp. and its partner ST Kinetics will start the development of 13 prototypes for the engineering, manufacturing and development phase of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Increment 1 program. Under a $121.5 million contract previously awarded by the U.S. Marine Corps, SAIC and ST will build the eight-by-eight wheeled, armored ACV called TERREX 2, which is designed to transport […] More

  • Comtech Subsidiary Gets Satcom Infrastructure Equipment Orders; Stanton Sloane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Subsidiary Gets Satcom Infrastructure Equipment Orders; Stanton Sloane Comments

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has received $1.6 million worth of orders for satellite communications infrastructure equipment to be used in a government network. Stanton Sloane, president and CEO of Comtech, said in a release published Thursday the company hopes to support mission applications through the orders received by Comtech EF Data. The orders include Up/Down Frequency Converters, […] More

  • Raytheon Develops New Software for Weapons Integration on Legacy Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Develops New Software for Weapons Integration on Legacy Aircraft

    Raytheon has unveiled a software system that works to convert legacy weapons interfaces to universal armament interface message sets and link MIL-STD-1760 and the Miniature Munition Store Interface. Envoy, previously called the Interface Bridge, was developed in an effort to create a time- and cost-efficient integration system for new weapons onto legacy aircraft, Raytheon said Wednesday. Raytheon added […] More

  • Nuance Output Manager Receives Army Networthiness Certification; Mike Rich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nuance Output Manager Receives Army Networthiness Certification; Mike Rich Comments

    Nuance Communications has received the U.S. Army’s Certificate of Networthiness for its Output Manager software that works to address the security, compatibility and sustainability requirements to support the service branch’s document workflow. Mike Rich, Nuance executive vice president and general manager, said in a statement released Tuesday the company’s Document Imaging portfolio added 15 military customers that use AutoStore and […] More

  • Jacobs Joins US Space Advocacy Trade Group; Ward Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Joins US Space Advocacy Trade Group; Ward Johnson Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has become a member of an organization that represents U.S.-based industry and nonprofit groups to advocate for government investment in space exploration, the company said Tuesday. The Seabrook, Texas-based Coalition for Space Exploration counts close to 30 aerospace industry companies as members and aims to raise awareness and build support for U.S. space exploration programs. “We share the commitment […] More

  • Zoomdata Signs Deloitte, Northrop & Unisys as Partners for Data Analytics-Focused Federal Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zoomdata Signs Deloitte, Northrop & Unisys as Partners for Data Analytics-Focused Federal Program

    Big data analytics and visualization technology company Zoomdata has formed new federal practice partnerships with Deloitte, Northrop Grumman and Unisys as part of a new program focused on data services to U.S. government agencies. Zoomdata said Tuesday it intends to train users on how to use its technology through the partnerships in an effort to help agencies […] More

  • Endgame Unveils Cyber Operations Platform to Automate Attacker Searches, Defense Mechanisms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Endgame Unveils Cyber Operations Platform to Automate Attacker Searches, Defense Mechanisms

    Endgame will a release new cyber operations platform to the market March 30 in an effort to help enterprise organizations detect, block and disable cyber threats in the early stages of the attack. The company said Feb. 29 it designed the product as a stealth tool with little-to-no detectable persistence, to integrate automated detection methods and give users precision response functions that […] More

  • Air Force Awards Two R&D Space Tech Task Orders to IAI Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Awards Two R&D Space Tech Task Orders to IAI Subsidiary

    A subsidiary of Integrity Applications has been awarded two task orders worth $27.8 million combined for research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. Pacific Defense Solutions will work to develop electro-optical space situational awareness systems and also integrate and produce components under the first task order, Defense Department said Monday. The second task order covers R&D services for […] More

  • GPO Taps Amazon Web Services for Library Mgmt System Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GPO Taps Amazon Web Services for Library Mgmt System Cloud Migration

    The U.S. Government Publishing Office has started to transition its public-facing websites to an Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure. GPO said Thursday it will use company’s services to migrate Integrated Library System web portals in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Cloud First policy. “Moving these sites to the cloud demonstrates our ongoing commitment to leverage the best […] More

  • Abacus Technology to Help Secure C4 Networks at Kirtland AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Abacus Technology to Help Secure C4 Networks at Kirtland AF Base

    Abacus Technology has landed a potential $25.7 million contract to provide command, control, communications and computer services to an Air Force facility in New Mexico. The Defense Department said Monday that Abacus Technology will support network monitoring and the implementation of security tools and patches for Kirtland Air Force Base’s C4 infrastructure under the sole-source contract. The military branch’s 377th Mission […] More

  • Saudi Air Force Receives Two Lockheed-Built Super Hercules Refuelers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saudi Air Force Receives Two Lockheed-Built Super Hercules Refuelers

    Lockheed Martin has handed two KC-130J Super Hercules aerial refuelers to Saudi Arabia’s air force under a foreign military sales agreement that country holds with the U.S. government. Saudi will be the 16th country to use the Super Hercules that is designed to refuel tactical aircraft, helicopters and tilt-rotors for airlift and ground refueling of expeditionary forces during missions, Lockheed said […] More

  • Technavio Names Top 5 Vendors in Global Data Loss Prevention Applications Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio Names Top 5 Vendors in Global Data Loss Prevention Applications Market

    Technavio has compiled a list of the leading vendors in the company’s global data loss prevention applications market report projected to make an impact in a forecast period of 2015 to 2019. The top five companies in the list are EMC, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense that are expected to deliver systems that can provide notifications to users during data […] More