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  • Janus to Help Army Engineers Manage Hazardous Waste at South Korea-Based Installation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janus to Help Army Engineers Manage Hazardous Waste at South Korea-Based Installation

    Janus Global Operations will collaborate with the Army Corps of Engineers on a project to manage hazardous waste and materials at a U.S. Army base located in South Korea. The company said Thursday that it will deploy technical staff with knowledge on hazardous waste management to support Camp Humphreys’ directorate of public works as well as help the installation meet environmental compliance […] More

  • NIC's Jayne Friedland Holland: Fusion Centers Can Help Agencies Combat Hacktivism - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIC’s Jayne Friedland Holland: Fusion Centers Can Help Agencies Combat Hacktivism

    Jayne Friedland Holland, chief security officer at information services provider NIC, has said fusion centers can help government agencies defend against hacktivism and other cyber crimes through intelligence data sharing. Holland wrote in a guest post published Wednesday on GCN the intelligence gathering entities share a similar cybersecurity mission with government, law enforcement and private organizations. She noted that fusion centers are funded through a […] More

  • Battelle to Update Forecast Analytic Tool for Navy Aircraft Capacity Synchronization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Update Forecast Analytic Tool for Navy Aircraft Capacity Synchronization

    Battelle has landed a five-year, $38.6 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update a forecast analytic system designed to synchronize aircraft capacity sets.  The nonprofit research and development company said Thursday it will collaborate with subcontractor Veracity Forecasting and Analysis to update the Naval Synchronization Toolset for use on the service branch’s multiple weapon platforms such as the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. […] More

  • NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT Data has secured a potential five-year, $62 million contract to provide a range of information technology services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The company said Thursday it will host applications, manage cloud systems, store files, monitor operations and perform data center support for CDC under the contract. The IT services are intended to help […] More

  • CSRA Subsidary's Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidary’s Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation

    A plague vaccine being developed by a CSRA subsidiary has received orphan drug status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for pre-exposure prophlaxis of Yersinia pestis infection. CSRA said Wednesday its DynPort Vaccine Company works with the Defense Department on the development of the recombinant rF1V plague vaccine that will be added to the DoD’s medical countermeasures portfolio […] More

  • Navy Extends Sierra Nevada's Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract

    Sierra Nevada has received a one-year, $31 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue to supply and support countermeasure transmitters designed for explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises option year six and extend the ordering period of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AN/PLT-5 electronic jamming systems. Sierra Nevada will produce the systems as […] More

  • CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems

    CGI has secured a potential 20-year, $66.2 million contract from the Colorado government to update payroll systems across 21 state agencies and departments in support of efforts to overhaul the existing enterprise resource planning system. The company said Wednesday it will offer information technology services to transform manual payroll processes into a unified human resource […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Partners to Develop Combat Vehicle Prototypes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Partners to Develop Combat Vehicle Prototypes

    The Army Contracting Command has launched a market research effort to identify potential vendors that can help the U.S. Army develop combat vehicle prototypes. According to a notice posted Monday on the FedBizOpps website, the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Detroit Arsenal Automotive Prototype Project aims to design, demonstrate, engineer, fabricate, integrate, schedule and test vehicle technologies into a set […] More

  • Leidos to Offer Healthcare IT, Cyber Services via GSA Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Offer Healthcare IT, Cyber Services via GSA Schedule 70

    The General Services Administration has selected Leidos to provide healthcare information technology and cybersecurity services to customer agencies via the company’s position on the IT Schedule 70 governmentwide contract vehicle. Leidos said Wednesday the multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract will run through Dec. 12, 2032, and has no price ceiling limit. Gerry Fasano, chief of business development and strategy at Leidos, said the expanded […] More

  • Raytheon Meets Systems Engineering Milestone in Air Force GPS OCX Program; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Meets Systems Engineering Milestone in Air Force GPS OCX Program; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon has completed a systems engineering milestone for the final software iteration of a ground-based operational control system the company developed for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellites. The company said Tuesday it used a DevOps model that combines commercial cloud technologies and new automation and software development processes in the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System program. Raytheon noted the approach will […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Refines US and Australia C-17 Maintenance Training Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Refines US and Australia C-17 Maintenance Training Systems

    A Textron subsidiary has implemented modifications on C-17 aircraft maintenance training equipment for the U.S. and Australian air forces. TRU Simulation + Training made the C-17 MTS changes as part of a contract from L3 Technologies‘ link simulation and training business, which currently serves as the prime contractor for the C-17 Training System. John Hayward, senior vice president and general manager of TRU’s military […] More

  • DoD Tests Info Assurance Capacity of Unify's Enterprise Comm Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Tests Info Assurance Capacity of Unify’s Enterprise Comm Platform

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested the interoperability and information assurance capacity of Unify‘s carrier-grade enterprise communication system. Unify said Tuesday its OpenScape Voice platform is designed to comply with DoD’s Assured Services Session Initiation Protocol and cybersecurity requirements. The Defense Information Systems Agency recommended that DoD include the OpenScape Voice offering on the department’s approved […] More