mm

Scott Nicholas

Latest stories

  • Okta Receives 'Moderate' FedRAMP Certification for Identity, Access Mgmt Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Okta Receives ‘Moderate’ FedRAMP Certification for Identity, Access Mgmt Platforms

    Okta has obtained “moderate” Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  certification to provide government customers access to the company’s identity and access management offerings via the Amazon Web Services Cloud. The Justice Department granted an authorization to operate after the company demonstrated its compliance with 300 controls that include business continuity, incident response and vulnerability management applications, Okta said Thursday. “The cloud continues to be […] More

  • iGov Tests Wearable Field Computing Tech at DoD Facility in Nevada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    iGov Tests Wearable Field Computing Tech at DoD Facility in Nevada

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology firm iGov has conducted an operational utility assessment on its field computing device-wearable system during a digitally-aided close air support test at a Defense Department test range in Nevada. The company said Thursday the FCD-W platform was used to transmit CAS 9-lines, Air on Station reports and other digital information to aircraft as part of the […] More

  • SAIC to Integrate C4ISR Tech for Army Tactical Vehicles Under $61M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    SAIC to Integrate C4ISR Tech for Army Tactical Vehicles Under $61M Task Order

    Science Applications International Corp. has received an 18-month, $61 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to perform engineering upgrade and integration work on two types of military vehicle. SAIC said Thursday it will integrate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications and hardware kits for the U.S. Army‘s High-Mobility […] More

  • General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times faster than gravity. The GEU […] More

  • Carbon Black, Air Force Life Cycle Mgmt Center Sign CRADA to Boost Cyber Capacity at Hanscom AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Carbon Black, Air Force Life Cycle Mgmt Center Sign CRADA to Boost Cyber Capacity at Hanscom AFB

    Carbon Black and the electronics systems development division of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have entered a cooperative research and development agreement to strengthen cybersecurity at the Hanscom Air Force Base Collaboration and Innovation Center. The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that the agreement provides an opportunity for Carbon Black to deploy its endpoint security […] More

  • BAE Unit to Extend O&M, Logistics Support for Air Force's Space Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    BAE Unit to Extend O&M, Logistics Support for Air Force’s Space Radar System

    BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business has secured a $48.5 million contract option for management, operations, maintenance and logistical support services to the U.S. Air Force‘s radar system for missile warning and space surveillance operations. The Defense Department said Wednesday that support work on the Solid State Phased Array Radar Systems will occur in Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Greenland […] More

  • Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network

    The Department of Health and Human Services has selected a team composed of Indigenous Technologies and Telos to help operate the Indian Health Service‘s information technology network that supports care services delivery for American Indian and Alaska Native people. The team will host infrastructure engineering and operations services through a Telos facility in Las Vegas and help IHS […] More

  • Cubic to Recruit More Professionals to Develop Learning Tech Platforms for Navy LCS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Cubic to Recruit More Professionals to Develop Learning Tech Platforms for Navy LCS Program

    Cubic‘s global defense segment plans to recruit new employees to support the development of learning products and services for the U.S. Navy at a company facility in Orlando, Florida. The company said Wednesday it secured more than $12 million in contract funds to create game-based courseware for the service branch’s littoral combat ships. Cubic currently employs more than 235 personnel at its Orlando […] More

  • Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System

    Northrop Grumman has turned over a mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial production contract awarded in October 2014. The company said Tuesday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five legacy radars being used by Marines and the system’s architecture works to interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATOR is designed to detect, track and engage a range […] More

  • Buchanan & Edwards to Unveil Chantilly, VA Innovation Center in June; Dennis Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Buchanan & Edwards to Unveil Chantilly, VA Innovation Center in June; Dennis Kelly Comments

    Buchanan & Edwards will open a Chantilly, Virginia-based innovation center next month as part of expansion efforts following the information technology consulting firm’s acquisition of Reports and Requirements Company. BE said Tuesday it signed a five-year lease to occupy office space at 15040 Conference Center Drive in a move to further its strategic development goals in the national security market. The leased […] More

  • Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services

    HawkEye 360 and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions have inked a memorandum of understanding to integrate the latter’s carrier monitoring, interference detection and geolocation offerings with the former’s planned space-based radio frequency detection and geolocation services. The alliance will look to augment Kratos’ sensor network technologies with HawkEye 360’s RF detection and geolocation offerings to boost the speed and […] More

  • Boeing to Provide P-8A Trainers, Support Services to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Boeing to Provide P-8A Trainers, Support Services to Navy

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $42.5 million contract modification to deliver eight deployable mission readiness trainers for the service branch’s P-8A maritime aircraft. Boeing will also provide P-8A mode control panels and program management and engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division obligated the full amount of the […] More