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Report: IT Govt Spending Could Surge as End of Fiscal Year Nears

Federal agencies awarded approximately $1.25 billion in information technology products and services contracts in the last month of fiscal year 2017 through NASAâ€™s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicle, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. BGOVâ€™s analysis shows that approximately one third of all contract obligations made through SEWP V in fiscal 2017 were awarded in […] More

by Jane Edwards May 25, 2018, 8:52 am
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Mike Lawrie: DXC Eyes â€˜Tuck-Inâ€™ Acquisitions

MikeÂ Lawrie, chairman, president and CEO of DXC Technology, has said the company plans to close more â€œtuck-inâ€ acquisitions as part of efforts to build up its digital offerings, CRN reported Thursday. â€œWe have a pipeline of things we are looking at. â€¦ Most of what we do classifies more as tuck-ins that are very consistent […] More

by Jane Edwards May 25, 2018, 5:22 am
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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Reaches ISS for 9th Cargo Resupply Mission

AnÂ Orbital ATKÂ spacecraft has completed berthing maneuvers with theÂ International Space Station as part of the company’s ninth resupply mission with NASA. The company said ThursdayÂ theÂ CygnusÂ spacecraft dubbed “S.S. J.R. Thompson” carried 7,400 pounds of cargo consisting of supplies and experiments to ISS. The spacecraft launched MondayÂ from Wallops Flight FacilityÂ in Virginia aboard anÂ Antares rocket. ISS crew secured the […] More

by Nichols Martin May 25, 2018, 3:40 am
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Boeing Names 8 Potential International Block III Super Hornet Customers

Boeing has named Bulgaria, Canada, Finland,Â Germany, India, Japan, Poland and Switzerland as potential clients for the latest configuration of its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft, National Defense reported Wednesday. Dan Gillian, vice president of F/A-18 programs at Boeing, said Wednesday at a media day in Virginia potential orders from those international customers could be a […] More

by Jane Edwards May 25, 2018, 2:30 am
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Red Hat’s David Egts, Unisys’ Peter O’Donoghue Outline DevOps Challenges in Public Sector

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat‘s public sector business, has said public sector organizations may encounter challenges in adopting DevOpsÂ in their information technology systems due to a culture that focuses on long-term initiatives. TechTarget reported TuesdayÂ that Egts believes the procurement culture in government is used to multiyear programs supported by a waterfall approach. Peter […] More

by Anna Forrester May 25, 2018, 2:29 am
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Northrop Grumman Gets USAF Reimbursement Modification for Satellite Sustainment

Northrop Grumman has received aÂ $7.1 millionÂ U.S. Air Force contract modification for reimbursements concerning satellite sensor sustainment services. The increase stems from an exercised option tasking the company to sustain sensors of theÂ Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbitÂ constellation and raises the contract’s value to $14.1 million, theÂ Defense DepartmentÂ said Wednesday. USAF obligates entire the modification amount that was […] More

by Nichols Martin May 24, 2018, 11:30 am
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United Technologies to Add 35,000 Jobs; Invest $15B in R&D Through 2022

United Technologies has announced it will add 35,000 jobs and invest overÂ $15 billion forÂ research and development, as well as well asÂ capital expenditures, in the United States through 2022. The company said Wednesday it also launched a new websiteÂ www.utcinvestingintheusa.com aimed at highlighting UTC’s U.S. investments. These new investments are intended to boost support for customers in […] More

by Nichols Martin May 24, 2018, 10:17 am
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HII Promotes Scott Weldon as Supply Chain Management VP, Lori Harper Retires

Scott Weldon, previously chief procurement officer at Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been selected to replace Lori Harper in the role of vice president of supply chain management at the company’s shipbuilding division. Weldon will immediately take over the management ofÂ Ingalls Shipbuilding‘s supply chain operations, overseeing sourcing, procurement, material warehousing and inventory control, the company said […] More

by Joanna Crews May 24, 2018, 10:14 am
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Thomson Reuters Announces Keynote Speaker, Panelists at 3rd Annual Government Conference

Thomson Reuters will hold its third annual Government Conference on June 5 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. Derek Benner, acting executive associate director for homeland security investigations at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will serve as a keynote speaker at the event, which will focus on trade-based money laundering and supply […] More

by Jane Edwards May 24, 2018, 3:59 am
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Report: CGI to Add 400 Jobs, Expand IT Center in Louisiana

CGI has announced plans to create 400 additional jobs as part of the expansion of its 50,000-square-foot information technology facility in Lafayette, La., KATC.com reported Wednesday. The expansion of the companyâ€™s Lafayette IT Center of ExcellenceÂ at the University of Louisiana Lafayette Research Park is expected to help bring the total number of CGI employees in […] More

by Jane Edwards May 24, 2018, 2:22 am
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Orbital ATK Wraps Up Casting Process of â€˜OmegAâ€™ Rocketâ€™s 1st Motor Segment

Orbital ATK has completed casting the first motor of the OmegA rocket with approximately 55 600-gallon mixes of inert propellant. The company said Tuesday it wrapped up the casting process in April for the Castor 600 aft segment as part of the Common Boost Segment program for OmegA, previously called Next-Generation Launcher. Orbital ATK built […] More

by Jane Edwards May 23, 2018, 11:44 am
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Report: Proposed Indian Lockheed Aircraft Facility to Access 30-Year, $165B F-16 Market

Vivek Lall, Lockheed Martin‘s vice president of strategy and business development, told the Press Trust of India in an interview published Wednesday that the global market for the sustainment of F-16s would amount to around $165 billion through the next 30 years. “Many air forces are actively engaging with Lockheed Martin about the prospect of […] More

by Joanna Crews May 23, 2018, 10:00 am