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  • General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $50 million option under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for logistics support services to multiple foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Wednesday GDIT will provide the FMS logistics services in support of the Naval Air Systems Command’s Logistics Management Integration Department. Work will take place in various within and […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Missile Guidance Control Sections for Air Force, Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Produce Missile Guidance Control Sections for Air Force, Navy

    Raytheon has received a potential $51.2 million contract to produce 538 laser guidance control sections for Maverick tactical air-to-ground missile systems of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is the contracting activity and obligated the full contract amount from fiscal 2017 and 2018 procurement funds, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Production […] More

  • GSA, DOE Issue Building Mgmt Tech RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA, DOE Issue Building Mgmt Tech RFI

    The General Services Administration and the Energy Department have released a joint request for information on technology platforms that could help increase operational efficiency of federal buildings. GSA said Tuesday it encourages manufacturers and other interested parties to submit information about potential building technologies as part of the FY18 Green Proving Ground Program solicitation notice. Submissions will be […] More

  • Widepoint Gets FEMA Order for Equipment, Professional Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Widepoint Gets FEMA Order for Equipment, Professional Services

    WidePoint has secured a $620,000 task order to provide equipment and telecom life-cycle management services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The company said Wednesday it uses a TM2 framework that covers telecommunication lifecycle, identity and mobility management services to help government customers address telecom security and efficiency. The order falls under DHS’ Cellular Wireless Managed Services blanket […] More

  • CACI Lands CBP Air, Marine Surveillance System Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands CBP Air, Marine Surveillance System Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential four-year, $34.5 million contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to update, operate and maintain the agency’s Air and Marine Operations Surveillance System. AMOSS works to help CBP’s air and marine operations center perform aerial and marine surveillance operations across U.S. borders and other western hemisphere, CACI said […] More

  • CyrusOne Kicks Off Texas Data Center Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Kicks Off Texas Data Center Construction

    CyrusOne conducted a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning to initiate the construction of a data center campus in Allen, Texas. The company said Tuesday the campus will consist of three data centers with more than 100 megawatts of allocated power and bring CyrusOne’s total footprint in the state to more than 1.7 million square feet. The first of three centers […] More

  • Farm Credit Administration Taps Xgility for System Devt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Farm Credit Administration Taps Xgility for System Devt Support

    Information technology provider Xgility has received a task order from the Farm Credit Administration to perform systems development support. Xgility said Tuesday the order was issued through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. The Ashburn, Viginia-based company offers collaboration technologies and on-premise, hybrid and cloud-based IT services to government and commercial clients. Xgility has provided Microsoft services such as […] More

  • PSC States Position on Fiscal 2018 NDAA Provisions; David Berteau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PSC States Position on Fiscal 2018 NDAA Provisions; David Berteau Comments

    The Professional Services Council has asked leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees to consider PSC’s position on some provisions in both chambers’ fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act as conference members begin to reconcile the two versions of the bill. PSC detailed its recommendations through an Oct. 19 letter sent to heads of the congressional […] More

  • Leidos to Continue IT, Engineering Support for TSA Security Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue IT, Engineering Support for TSA Security Equipment

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $17 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to continue to provide engineering, management and information technology security services for transportation security equipment used at airports and TSA facilities. The company said Tuesday it will help TSA manage, redeploy and move Reduced-Size Explosives Detection Systems as well as update the agency’s current […] More

  • Poland Implements CAE, Airbus Co-Developed Simulator for C295 Transport Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Poland Implements CAE, Airbus Co-Developed Simulator for C295 Transport Aircraft

    Poland’s air force has accepted a full-flight simulator developed by CAE and Airbus Defense and Space to help train pilots of the military branch’s C295 transport aircraft fleet. C295 FFS is equipped with CAE’s True six degree-of-freedom electric motion technology, Medallion-6000 visual system and a computer-generated forces tactical environment, the company said Tuesday. The platform also features an architecture based on the […] More

  • Orbital ATK’s Minotaur C Rocket Brings 10 Planet Labs Remote Sensing Satellites Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Minotaur C Rocket Brings 10 Planet Labs Remote Sensing Satellites Into Orbit

    Planet Labs’ 10 remote sensing satellites took off Tuesday aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur C rocket that launched at 2:37 p.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Four Planet’s Dove satellites launched into sun-synchronous orbit approximately 350 miles above the Earth following the deployment of six SkySat spacecraft into space, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. Rich Straka, […] More

  • Battelle Gets DEA OK to Expand Substance Use Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Gets DEA OK to Expand Substance Use Research Program

    Battelle has received a Drug Enforcement Administration license that allows the company’s Centers for Substance Use Research to expand its current program. The company said Tuesday it aims to study the behavioral and physical effects of marijuana on human subjects through the Schedule I Researcher license. DEA classify Schedule I substances as drugs with no proven or […] More