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  • Northrop Completes Cannon Production Hub Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Completes Cannon Production Hub Expansion

    Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems sector has completed the expansion of a Mesa, Ariz., facility built to manufacture Bushmaster medium-caliber cannons for the military sector. The company said Wednesday it will hire up to 60 new employees to support manufacturing, program management and engineering efforts at the 36K-square-foot facility. The expansion project almost doubled the site’s production capacity. Lisa […] More

  • NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program

    NASA has released a draft funding opportunity that seeks new planetary studies to support the space agency’s Discovery Program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to allocate $500M for up to five projects in fiscal year 2019. The Discovery Program offers flight opportunities to science investigations that could help expand the agency’s understanding of planetary […] More

  • George Korch to Lead Battelle-Operated Nat'l Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Korch to Lead Battelle-Operated Nat’l Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center

    George Korch, former commander at the U.S. Army‘s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has joined Battelle as lab director for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center. Battelle said Tuesday Korch succeeds Patrick Fitch, who will transition to a new role as associate lab director for chemical, earth and life sciences at the Triad National Security-managed Los […] More

  • DLH Achieves Joint Commission Certification for VA Healthcare Services; Kevin Wilson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLH Achieves Joint Commission Certification for VA Healthcare Services; Kevin Wilson Quoted

    The Joint Commission has given DLH a Gold Seal of Approval that certifies the quality and safety of the company’s clinical healthcare operations. The Atlanta, Ga.-based healthcare firm said Tuesday it was selected for its healthcare staffing services in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy program. DLH went through onsite reviews that […] More

  • Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted

    Hyperconverged secondary storage vendor Cohesity saw the number of its public sector clients increase by nearly 200 percent during its fiscal third and fourth quarters. Cohesity said Monday it added 24 new federal customers in Q4 alone and the company attributes the growth of its government customer base to agencies’ data center consolidation initiatives. “IT modernization initiatives are […] More

  • SAIC to Guide IronArch in Business Pursuits via DoD Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Guide IronArch in Business Pursuits via DoD Mentor-Protege Program

    Science Applications International Corp. and IronArch Technology have entered into an agreement that allows the service-disabled, veteran-owned company to receive business guidance and counsel through the Department of Defense‘s protege-mentor program. SAIC will help IronArch pursue new business opportunities, establish a corporate infrastructure and implement cloud and cybersecurity technologies, the companies said in a joint statement released Monday. […] More

  • CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Named to NDIA Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Named to NDIA Board

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has joined the board of directors of the National Defense Industrial Association. CTC said Tuesday Sheehan is one of the 16 newly elected board members at NDIA. Richard McConn, board chairman of NDIA, said Sheehan’s experience in manufacturing and professional services sectors will help the association carry […] More

  • AECOM Opens Augusta Office; Earl Johnson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Opens Augusta Office; Earl Johnson Quoted

    AECOM held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for its new office that is situated close to the Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta Chronicle reported Tuesday. Earl Johnson, a senior vice president at AECOM, oversees the new facility where employees will work to pursue new business opportunities with Army Cyber Command and Cyber Center of Excellence at Fort Gordon. Johnson […] More

  • Nlyte to Help Automate DOE IT Monitoring Process; Andrew Ryan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nlyte to Help Automate DOE IT Monitoring Process; Andrew Ryan Quoted

    Nlyte Software has secured a contract to help the Department of Energy and its national laboratories implement software designed to automatically monitor information technology systems and devices. The company said Tuesday it will provide the Data Center Infrastructure Management platform to the department under an enterprise agreement. DCIM employs artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches intended […] More

  • Iron Mountain-QualX-TDEC Team to Help Army War College Digitize Military Records - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain-QualX-TDEC Team to Help Army War College Digitize Military Records

    A team composed of Iron Mountain, QualX and TDEC will provide records digitization and preservation services to the U.S. Army War College’s Heritage and Education Center under a potential five-year, $30M contract. The three companies will help USAHEC process, move and store a collection of the military branch’s artifacts, manuscripts, photographs and audio-visual items in a […] More

  • Leidos to Open Tech Center in West Virginia; Drew Formica Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Open Tech Center in West Virginia; Drew Formica Quoted

    Leidos plans to consolidate its two facilities in Monongalia County, W. Va., into a new technology center that will be established at Westridge business park, WV News reported Monday. The company is scheduled to open the Agile Center of Excellence within a year and expects to accommodate approximately 250 people there. Drew Formica, site manager at Leidos, […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build Missile Enterprise Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build Missile Enterprise Mgmt System

    The U.S. Air Force has released a sources sought notice on design, engineering and development services intended to help the military branch produce an enterprise management platform for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, the Air Force said it looks to integrate JASSM administrative functions that include terminal area model tasking, workflow […] More