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  • Vectrus Secures Army Contract for Base Operations Support in Qatar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Secures Army Contract for Base Operations Support in Qatar

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a $28.7 million contract to provide base operations services in support of the U.S. Army‘s Area Support Group-Qatar. The Defense Department said Monday that Vectrus’ systems business is scheduled to finish work by Sept. 29, 2017. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated the full contract amount at the […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary to Produce MQ-9 Block 5 Installation Kits for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Subsidiary to Produce MQ-9 Block 5 Installation Kits for Air Force

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has landed a two-year, $12.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to fabricate installation kits for the Block 5 configuration of the service branch’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. The Defense Department said Monday that GA-ASI will produce 10 each of MQ-9 Block 5 extended-range, Barrett Asymmetric Digital Datalink Computer and VORTEX installation kits. GA-ASI […] More

  • Report: Boeing Seeks to Build V-22 Aircraft Modification Hub in Pennsylvania - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Seeks to Build V-22 Aircraft Modification Hub in Pennsylvania

    Boeing has asked the state of Pennsylvania for a $30 million grant to help the company redevelop a vacant industrial building in Delaware County into a modification facility for V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday. Jacob Adelman writes a grant application filed through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and obtained by the Inquirer says that […] More

  • BAE Taps VOP CZ to Supply Components for Beowulf Armored Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Taps VOP CZ to Supply Components for Beowulf Armored Vehicles

    Czech Republic-based company VOP CZ has received a contract from BAE Systems to manufacture components that will be used to build armored all-terrain vehicles. VOP CZ will produce components for 32 BVS10 Beowulf vehicles that BAE’s Swedish  subsidiary is constructing for the Austrian government, BAE said Monday. Both companies signed a partnership agreement in May 2016 to jointly pursue Czech Republic’s BMP-2 Infantry Fighting […] More

  • Coalition to Offer Recommendations for GSA’s Procurement Operations in Light of Trump’s Reorg Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coalition to Offer Recommendations for GSA’s Procurement Operations in Light of Trump’s Reorg Order

    The Coalition for Government Procurement plans to collaborate with the federal government to provide recommendations for the General Services Administration on how to introduce changes to its acquisition channels, operations and programs in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order on government reorganization. Some of GSA-related matters that CGP plans to address include category management, commercial […] More

  • Rivada Offers Alternative Public Safety Broadband Network for State Gov't Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rivada Offers Alternative Public Safety Broadband Network for State Gov’t Customers

    Rivada Networks plans to work with states and territories that want to opt out of the First Responder Network Authority’s wireless public safety broadband network. Herndon, Virginia-based Rivada said Friday it has begun to work with New Hampshire on a potential alternative broadband network strategy in case the state decides to develop a public safety network separate […] More

  • IBM-SecureKey Alliance to Create Digital Identity & Attribute Sharing Network for Consumers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM-SecureKey Alliance to Create Digital Identity & Attribute Sharing Network for Consumers

    IBM has partnered with SecureKey Technologies to develop a blockchain-based digital identity and attribute sharing network for consumers. The network will work to help consumers instantly validate their identity for services such as new bank accounts, driver’s licenses and utilities, IBM said Monday. Marie Wieck, general manager of IBM’s Blockchain service, said IBM and SecureKey work with members of Canada’s […] More

  • Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Seeks Open GPS Tech Ideas via Plug Fest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Seeks Open GPS Tech Ideas via Plug Fest

    The U.S. Air Force has introduced an open-source initiative to gather input from interested companies on how to modernize the service branch’s Global Positioning System, Space News reported Friday. Phillip Swarts writes Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy for acquisition at the Air Force, said the Plug Fest program seeks potential traditional and nontraditional partners that can help the […] More

  • Red Hat Gets NIST Certification for Open-Source Security Compliance Scanner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Gets NIST Certification for Open-Source Security Compliance Scanner

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has approved Red Hat‘s open-source security content automation protocol scanner for deployment on the U.S. government’s Enterprise Linux 6 and 7-based systems. Red Hat said Friday that NIST certified the OpenSCAP 1.2 platform’s capacity to analyze and evaluate security automation content as well as address functionality and documentation requirements in security-conscious environments. OpenSCAP was developed […] More

  • ULA's Delta IV Rocket Launches 9th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Launches 9th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Space

    United Launch Alliance launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit Saturday aboard a Delta IV rocket to provide military communications support for the U.S. military and six of the country’s allies. The ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite with  updated digital channelizers that are designed to nearly double the bandwidth of earlier satellites in the WGS system, Boeing said Saturday. Boeing is contracted to build 10 WGS […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Qualtrics Experience Mgmt Tool to GSA Schedule 70, NASA SEWP V Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Qualtrics Experience Mgmt Tool to GSA Schedule 70, NASA SEWP V Contracts

    Carahsoft Technology and Qualtrics have partnered to offer the latter’s experience management technology platform to the public sector through Carahsoft’s spots on two contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Wednesday it will sell the Qualtrics XM Platform to federal agencies via the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 and NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicles. Qualtrics XM Platform is […] More

  • CBP Posts Border Wall Prototype Design, Construction RFPs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CBP Posts Border Wall Prototype Design, Construction RFPs

    The Customs and Border Protection seeks industry proposals for the design and construction of prototypes for President Donald Trump’s planned U.S.-Mexico border wall. CBP said Friday it intends to award multiple contracts, acquire numerous wall designs and build multiple prototypes through two requests for proposals published on the FedBizOpps website. The agency issued RFPs for a solid concrete border wall as well […] More