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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

Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center have installed a Lockheed Martin-built heat shield technology at the bottom of a crew module designed for the Orion spacecraft. The installation team performed a fit check of the heat cover before securing it on the vehicle to ensure all of the bolt fittings were in their proper position, NASA […] More

Serco’s North American subsidiary has been included in Forbes magazine’s 2018 list of top U.S. employers for women. Female employees comprise approximately 40 percent of Serco Inc.’s workforce, the company said Monday. Serco Inc., which landed the 227th spot on this year’s America’s Best Employers for Women list, has several diversity programs including an affinity group […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a $13.9M bridge contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and assurance support to the Defense Department‘s focal office responsible for overseeing F-35 weapons systems. The Defense Department said Monday that Jacobs’ technology business will continue to help the F-35 Joint Program Office manage IT and IA programs, enterprise architecture, assets, emerging […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $52M task order to help a U.S. Army laboratory facilitate arms experimentation activities via live, virtual and game-based platforms. SAIC said Monday it will support the Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Benning, Georgia, in efforts to manage the service branch’s readiness efforts. “We are excited to […] More

Dominic Delmolino, chief technology officer of Accenture‘s federal services business, has said some government agencies have started considering machine learning and artificial intelligence as potential tools to help personnel analyze data for missions, GCN reported Sunday. The report noted local, state and federal agencies have increasingly considered the possible advantages of the new technologies in data […] More

C2 Technologies will support training programs and systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-17 transport aircraft as part of a potential 6.5-year, $986M contract the service branch awarded to Boeing, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. The report said C2 could receive at least $100M as a subcontractor on the project and plans to help the service branch […] More

Former CSRA CEO Larry Prior, a four-time Wash100 winner, has said the federal government’s spending plans and demand for novel technology platforms will likely drive more mergers and acquisitions among contracting firms, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Prior, who was recently named to the board of analytics firm Novetta, said at a breakfast event Friday there […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $26.1M order from the U.S. Navy to design, build, integrate and test a security tool for an information technology system F-35 operators use to sustain aircraft systems. The company will perform non-recurring engineering work on the security architecture of the F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System and the ALIS Sovereign Data Management platform for the Navy, U.S. […] More