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Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More

Applied Research Associates will help the U.S. Air Force study and create modern detection technologies under a potential $49.6 million contract for the Advanced Laboratories for Analysis of Sensors program. The company will support research and development of electro-optical, multispectral and radio frequency systems, sensors, and test methods and approaches, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a proposer’s day in search of expertise to support Learning with Less Label, a program aiming to reduce amounts of information needed to train machine learning models. The event will run on July 12 at the DARPA Conference Center in Arlington, Va., the agency said Wednesday. “Under LwLL, we are […] More

Science Applications International Corp. plans to hire up to 75 professionals in Richmond, Va., to support the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Virginia Business reported Wednesday. SAIC received a potential $165 million contract in September of last year to help VITA monitor and coordinate multiple IT infrastructure services providers to the state’s executive branch agencies. New hires will […] More

KBR‘s government services business has received a 50-month, $41.7 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering and Management deliver continuing education and research. KBRwyle said Thursday it will analyze, study, advise and construct materials on military and commercial research and development. Services will aim to progress scientific and technical […] More

Bart & Associates has adopted the name B&A and a new corporate logo in a move to reflect the company’s commitment to deliver innovative solutions across integration and analytics, modernization and transformation, operations and enablement, agile delivery, human capital management and certified hosting areas. Jonathan Evans, president and CEO of B&A, said in a statement […] More

NASA has released the final solicitation for the third iteration of the space agency’s potential eight-year Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the ISRDS-3 contract covers R&D work across several domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing and sensors, knowledge-based systems, software verification, quantum computing and data mining. The contract […] More

Iridium Communications has changed its target launch date for a seventh batch of NEXT communications satellites to July 25. The company said Tuesday it rescheduled the Iridium-7 mission in order to give SpaceX more time to prepare the rocket that will carry the satellites into orbit. SpaceX launched the sixth NEXT batch May 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base […] More

A report by the Aerospace Industry Association showed that U.S. defense and aerospace companies performed well last year, stimulating economic activity and providing employment opportunities. The sector generated $865 million in sales, 2.4 million jobs and a trade surplus worth $85.9 billion in 2017, AIA said in its report entitled “2018 Facts & Figures: The […] More