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  • Navy Taps ICF to Assess Potential Infrastructure Risks at US Military Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps ICF to Assess Potential Infrastructure Risks at US Military Facilities

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential five-year, $34 million contract to ICF International to help the Defense Department identify strategies to increase the resiliency of DoD assets as well as examine potential risks to infrastructure at various U.S. military installations worldwide. ICF said Tuesday it will perform risk assessments on physical and cyber systems at DoD facilities globally, conduct studies on the resilience […] More

  • Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Water Energy Technologies have jointly developed a laundry system designed to help reduce water consumption for commercial laundry operations. The treatment system processes and recycles 90 percent of grey water from laundry operations through an integrated ozone technology and water recycling system, CTC said Thursday. “We look forward to combining the […] More

  • CSRA Extends Support for Joint Integrated Air & Missile Defense Org Under $53M Recompete Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Extends Support for Joint Integrated Air & Missile Defense Org Under $53M Recompete Contract

    CSRA has won a five-year, $53 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance services to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization. The company said Monday it will continue to perform analysis, assessments, technology demonstrations, wargames and exercises meant to help the agency shape concepts, requirements and operational architectures under the recompete contract. “The Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense’s challenge […] More

  • Jeremy Burton: Dell Technologies Aims to Help Clients Realize Digital Transformation Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Burton: Dell Technologies Aims to Help Clients Realize Digital Transformation Goals

    Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

  • Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support

    A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

  • Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers

    Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More

  • Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

  • AECOM to Design Indiana's Truck Parking Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM to Design Indiana’s Truck Parking Info Mgmt System

    AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

  • GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts

    The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

  • Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Lifts Off for Asteroid Sampling Mission

    NASA launched a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on a mission to explore and collect a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Wednesday the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft separated from the Atlas V 411 rocket nearly an hour after launch, then autonomously deployed […] More

  • Report: Blue Origin to Test ‘New Shepard’ Rocket’s Abort System in October - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Blue Origin to Test ‘New Shepard’ Rocket’s Abort System in October

    Blue Origin plans to carry out an unmanned flight test in October to evaluate its New Shepard rocket’s abort system, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes the in-flight abort test of the Blue Origin-built suborbital vehicle will occur at the company’s test site in West Texas and aims to demonstrate how the crew capsule would fire its […] More