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  • CAE’s German Arm Gets CMMI Level 3 Status for Development; Gene Colabatistto Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE’s German Arm Gets CMMI Level 3 Status for Development; Gene Colabatistto Quoted

    CAE’s Germany-based business has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 appraisal for development from the CMMI Institute. The company said Wednesday CAE Electronik GmbH received the CMMI maturity level 3 rating after an independent appraiser evaluated the firm based on its established and well-characterized processes, tools, methods and standards. “This is a great achievement for […] More

  • Unisys Secures $242M Virginia IT Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Secures $242M Virginia IT Support Contract

    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

  • CACI to Support DIA Counterintelligence Training Operations Under Potential $80M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Support DIA Counterintelligence Training Operations Under Potential $80M Contract

    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

  • Cubic Named as 2019 Military Friendly Employer; Bradley Feldmann Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Named as 2019 Military Friendly Employer; Bradley Feldmann Quoted

    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

  • NIST Seeks Microelectromechanical System Design Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Microelectromechanical System Design Tool

    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 to Distribute CloudBees Software Delivery Suite to Gov't Clients, Resellers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute CloudBees Software Delivery Suite to Gov’t Clients, Resellers

    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 Selected for 2018 Fortune Change the World List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Selected for 2018 Fortune Change the World List

    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 Secures Navy Multimission Airborne Detection Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Secures Navy Multimission Airborne Detection Contract

    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

  • MAG Aerospace Moves to New Fairfax County, Virginia HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MAG Aerospace Moves to New Fairfax County, Virginia HQ

    MAG Aerospace has moved its corporate headquarters from Sterling to Fairfax, Va., and aims to create 120 new jobs through its relocation and expansion efforts at the new site. The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority said Tuesday that Gov. Ralph Northam approved a $500K Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund grant to help the local government secure the project with MAG. […] More

  • Avaya Gets Mitre Certification for Data Mgmt Product Security; Laurent Philonenko Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Gets Mitre Certification for Data Mgmt Product Security; Laurent Philonenko Quoted

    Mitre has certified Avaya as an authoritative body to help customers and other organizations identify vulnerabilities in their data management systems. Avaya said Tuesday it can issue CVE identification documents and inform customers about other weak points of products included through the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Numbering Authority program. “This is an important step in our cybersecurity […] More

  • Grand Sky Drone Park Hosts Approved Launch of BVLOS Large Drone Flights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grand Sky Drone Park Hosts Approved Launch of BVLOS Large Drone Flights

    The Grand Sky Drone Park in North Dakota has hosted the approved launch of beyond-visual-line-of-sight large commercial unmanned aircraft system flights under a two-year certificate of waiver or authorization, Aviation Today reported Tuesday. The COA, which was given to the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, enables General Atomics‘ aeronautical system business to test its MQ-1 Predator […] More

  • Northrop to Support Battlefield Experimentation for Army Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Battlefield Experimentation for Army Training Program

    Northrop Grumman has received a $25M contract modification to help the U.S. Army conduct battlefield experiments as part of the service branch’s Mission Command Training Program. The Defense Department said Tuesday work will take place in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and that the Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command will obligate $20M in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance […] More