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  • Northrop to Sponsor 11th Navy Littoral Combat Ship Commissioning - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Sponsor 11th Navy Littoral Combat Ship Commissioning

    Northrop Grumman, the mission package integrator for the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship program, will serve as a “captain level” sponsor to the commissioning of an 11th LCS. The company said Thursday it provided mission modules, minehunting systems, integrated bridge and navigation equipment and an MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system for the USS Sioux City. Northrop […] More

  • HighPoint Plans Digital Business Expansion in Indianapolis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HighPoint Plans Digital Business Expansion in Indianapolis

    HighPoint Global expects to create 60 jobs over the next three years as part of a push to expand operations of its digital subsidiary in Indianapolis, Ind. The company said Thursday it will hire instructional design, project management, systems administration and media development professionals in the coming months to help government clients transform citizen service delivery with digital technology. […] More

  • Jacobs Receives $62M Contract for Connecticut City Wastewater Infrastructure Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Receives $62M Contract for Connecticut City Wastewater Infrastructure Modernization

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a potential 10-year, $62M contract to modernize, manage and sustain wastewater facilities in Waterbury, Conn. The contract’s scope of work includes modernization of the city’s watershed system, adjustment of treatment and waste collection processes and planning of long-term fixes, Jacobs said Thursday. Waterbury approached the company after the local community experienced […] More

  • Serco Reaches USPTO Patent Application Processing Milestone; Tom Watson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco Reaches USPTO Patent Application Processing Milestone; Tom Watson Quoted

    Serco Inc., the British contractor’s North American arm, has processed 4M patent applications for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday its intellectual property team has helped USPTO analyze drawings, specifications and claims from applicants, as well as assign domestic and international classification symbols representative of invention proposals since 2006. To date, Serco personnel have examined more […] More

  • ViON's Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON’s Liz Anthony Gets Public Sector Marketing Award; Tom Frana Quoted

    Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, has received the Government Marketing University’s 2018 Gainer for her leadership in the company’s marketing efforts across the public sector. ViON said Thursday the award recognizes its One Is All You Need campaign aimed to promote MarketPlace, a single access point for sourcing, evaluation, procurement and management of information […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unit to Help Manage Navy, Marine Platforms

    General Dynamics‘s information technology business has won a potential five-year, $64.6M contract for project management and engineering services to land, sea and air systems of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will aim to help both service branches gather, detect, evaluate, identify, exploit, neutralize and distribute technologies for […] More

  • DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev't Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Allocates $98M for 40 Energy Tech Dev’t Projects

    The Energy Department has announced 40 projects that will share up to $98M in total funds to build technology platforms that would update the U.S. energy system. DOE said Thursday the funding support is part of the OPEN 2018 program managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Companies, universities and nonprofit organizations proposed projects focused […] More

  • Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov't Customer Continuity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity

    Dan Jablonsky, president of DigitalGlobe, has said the National Reconnaissance Office‘s move to extend a satellite imagery services contract with the company can serve as evidence that the government favors “continuity” amid an influx of entrants into the industry, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies business, received a potential $900M contract extension to provide commercial imagery to […] More

  • DLT Named Red Hat Public Sector Partner for 2018; Brian Strosser Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Named Red Hat Public Sector Partner for 2018; Brian Strosser Quoted

    Red Hat has selected DLT Solutions as its Public Sector Partner of the Year in recognition of the Herndon, Va.-based tech firm’s contributions to the former’s business efforts. DLT said Tuesday it provides government agencies with resale access to open-source technologies such as Red Hat’s cloud, middleware and Linux software offerings. The company has provided services in support […] More

  • ACC Names Tom McCabe Outstanding Chief Legal Officer of the Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACC Names Tom McCabe Outstanding Chief Legal Officer of the Year

    Tom McCabe, senior vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of BWX Technologies, has been named as Outstanding Chief Legal Officer of the Year by the Association of Corporate Counsel’s National Capital Region chapter. McCabe received the award in the large company category. ACC recognized his leadership role in the merger of […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Opens Offices in Australia, UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Opens Offices in Australia, UK

    In-Q-Tel has set up new offices in Sydney and London to gain access to startups with novel commercial technologies that can aid intelligence and national security missions of the U.S. and international partners. Peter Tague, an executive vice president at IQT, will oversee international efforts, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Tague is former vice chairman and co-head […] More

  • Tech Companies Intel, IBM, Oracle, Raytheon Look to Offer AI Tools to DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Companies Intel, IBM, Oracle, Raytheon Look to Offer AI Tools to DoD

    Intel, IBM, Oracle and Raytheon have expressed interest in joining a potential competition to provide the Defense Department with artificial intelligence technologies that would support the U.S. military, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The four companies are among 42 businesses that hope to join an AI demonstration event hosted by the Army Research Lab, DoD’s Joint Artificial […] More