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  • Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities

    A joint venture of Cardno and Amec Foster Wheeler has landed a five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to evaluate the state of U.S. Marine Corps-operated buildings. The Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV will use the Defense Department‘s BUILDER Sustainment Management System to conduct building condition assessments on USMC facilities worldwide, Cardno said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Construction […] More

  • Horace Blackman: Lockheed to Support VA Health Benefits Enrollment System Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Horace Blackman: Lockheed to Support VA Health Benefits Enrollment System Modernization

    Lockheed Martin‘s Systems Made Simple subsidiary has been awarded a 39-month, $33.3 million task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs update and maintain VA’s Enrollment Health Benefits Determination system. The subsidiary will provide technical architecture analysis and design and management services to the EHBD program as well as develop enrollment platforms and VistA electronic health records systems for the department, Lockheed […] More

  • CMS Posts Collaborative Web Platform RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS Posts Collaborative Web Platform RFI

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants information from vendors that can provide and operate a website to facilitate collaboration between CMS contractors, healthcare providers, beneficiaries and taxpayers. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated CMS seeks a contractor-run website designed with collaboration and communication tools that work to help users find, store, retrieve and share media files. The agency looks […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder

    NASA wants industry information on a solid state data recorder to support a conceptual design of the agency’s future wide field imaging observatory platform. A notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps stated the data recorder will become a component of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope‘s payload command and data handling subsystem. The recorder will work to store science data packets […] More

  • Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site

    Google‘s parent company Alphabet will test an autonomous delivery service at one of six Federal Aviation Administration-approved unmanned aircraft system test sites in the U.S., Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Alan Levin writes the White House said Tuesday that Alphabet’s Project Wing drone delivery demonstration aims to lay the groundwork for the approval of the use of UAS to safely deliver packages. Dave […] More

  • NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1

    NASA has asked industry to submit proposals for the initial phase of a program that seeks to develop novel platforms designed for future aerospace missions. The space agency said Wednesday it will award $125,000 in grants over a nine-month period to selected projects under Phase 1 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. NASA will select up to […] More

  • Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract

    Harris has been awarded a potential $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform the first phase of a research and development program. The Defense Department said Tuesday DARPA will obligate $22.3 million in fiscal  year 2015 and fiscal 2016 R&D funds at the time of award. Ninety percent of contract-related work will occur in Palm Bay, Florida and the […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Modification for DDG 51 Destroyer Design Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Modification for DDG 51 Destroyer Design Update

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $30.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide design update services for the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The Defense Department said Tuesday the Flight III modernization effort includes the replacement of the Lockheed Martin-built SPY-1D radar technology with the Raytheon-made SPY-6 air and missile defense radar system on DDG 51. […] More

  • Spider Strategies to Support Army's Business Transformation Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spider Strategies to Support Army’s Business Transformation Office

    Alexandria, Virginia-based software company Spider Strategies has secured a potential five-year, $42 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to support the military branch’s office of business transformation. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will offer its services to the OBT’s Strategic Management Support Program Office through August 3, 2021. The Army Contracting Command has awarded the […] More

  • Alan Williams: Canada Should Hold Open Competition to Replace CF-18 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Williams: Canada Should Hold Open Competition to Replace CF-18 Fleet

    Alan Williams, former assistant deputy minister of materiel at the Canadian defense department, has said he believes Canada’s CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft fleet should be replaced through an open competition among vendors, the Toronto Star reported Tuesday. “If you really think that there is some kind of urgency and there is a capability gap, the fastest […] More

  • EnPro Industries Subsidiary to Build Navy Oiler Ship Propulsion Diesel Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EnPro Industries Subsidiary to Build Navy Oiler Ship Propulsion Diesel Engines

    The U.S. Navy has selected a subsidiary of EnPro Indutries‘ to deliver main propulsion diesel engines for the USNS John Lewis replenishment oiler ship. EnPro’s Fairbanks Morse subsidiary said Monday it will build two FM-MAN 12V 48/60 CR engines in its Beloit, Wisconsin facility and provide propulsion control systems, auxiliary equipment and commissioning services under the Navy order. Fairbanks Morse will design the engines […] More

  • Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation

    The U.S. Air Force has amended its solicitation for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program to include options for full-rate production following a series of protests and legal action. The service branch said Monday the 3DELRR contract is now comprised of engineering and manufacturing development, low-rate initial production, interim contractor support and full rate production phases. Lockheed Martin, Northrop […] More