Industry News

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to propose applied research and basic concepts that could help build and maintain systems designed to facilitate automated knowledge curation, discovery and application. A FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 17 says the Artificial Intelligence Exploration  opportunity focuses on two technical areas: machine-assisted curation and machine-assisted inference. The […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has landed a spot on a potential $980M contract to provide support services to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division. SAIC said Thursday it will compete with 21 other contractors for task orders to design, develop, analyze, integrate, modify and deliver training platforms through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Jim […] More

The General Services Administration has awarded IBM a six-month, $16M contract extension to continue helping GSA update and manage the agency’s online registration platform for government contractors and federal assistance requests. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the company has supported the System for Award Management site over the past eight years under the SAM Architecture and Operations Contract […] More

Unisys has received a potential six-year, $242.4M contract to provide storage, server and data center services to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. VITA said Wednesday it selected the company after the agency and experts from the state’s executive branch units conducted in-depth studies and evaluations of proposals for the project. Virginia Chief Information Officer Nelson […] More

The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded CACI International a potential five-year, $80.4M contract to support operations at DIA’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy located in Quantico, Va. The Virginia Contracting Activity in Washington, D.C received four bids for the labor-hour contract via an unrestricted solicitation process and will obligate $9M in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance […] More

VIQTORY, a veteran-owned recruitment marketing business, has named Cubic as a military friendly employer, citing its efforts to citing its efforts to provide opportunities for the military community. Cubic said Wednesday it received the recognition as a 2019 Bronze Military Friendly Employer, following an evaluation based on a comprehensive survey, as well as publicly available data. […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a request for information on companies that offer design and layout software for microelectromechanical systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says NIST is interested in an electronic design automation technology designed to generate masks for MEMS device production. The agency requires software for creating geometrical figures and hierarchical models, as […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute CloudBees‘s suite of automated software delivery platforms to public sector agencies via a NASA-managed governmentwide acquisition vehicle. Government customers will have access to CloudBees Core, which is based on the Jenkins open source automation server, through Carahsoft’s position on the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract, the company said Tuesday. CloudBees’s product portfolio also includes […] More

Hughes Network Systems has been listed in Fortune magazine’s ranking of companies that have demonstrated a social impact in core business strategies. Fortune placed Hughes in the top 10 of its Change the World List and cited the firm’s efforts to facilitate communications in disaster recovery efforts with technology, the company said Monday. Hughes operated more than […] More

BAE Systems has won a potential $39M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide support services to the U.S. Navy’s multimission airborne detection system. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the Office of Naval Research awarded the contract to BAE’s information and electronic systems unit via a long-range broad agency announcement dated Sept. 29, 2017. ONR will continue […] More