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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Secures DARPA Propulsion Tech Development Contract

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $13.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop propulsion systems for a ground-launched tactical weapon platform. The contract was awarded in support of DARPA’s Operational Fires program that aims to build new mobile missile technologies, the company said Tuesday. The OpFires initiative seeks to meet the […] 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

  • MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA, Navy Demo Lockheed’s Updated Aegis Combat System in On-Land Missile Defense Test

    The Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy have conducted an on-land test to demonstrate the capability of Lockheed Martin’s latest Aegis Combat System to detect and counter an intermediate-range ballistic missile threat. Aegis Baseline 9.B2.0 or BMD 5.1 intercepted an IRBM target using ground-based remote sensor data derived from the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system during […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom's Collaboration Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Immersive Wisdom’s Collaboration Tech

    Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Immersive Wisdom to further develop the latter company’s virtual and intelligence platform for government applications. Immersive Wisdom designed its software to help users access information in real time and view live 3D maps through a shared virtual workspace, IQT said Tuesday. The technology employs virtual, mixed and […] 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

  • NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, General Dynamics Test Updated Space Network Ground Systems; Manny Mora Quoted

    A General Dynamics business unit and NASA have completed a laboratory assessment of new ground infrastructure systems designed to help the agency manage a constellation of tracking and data relay satellites. General Dynamics Mission Systems supported the final system acceptance test at a facility in Scottsdale, Ariz., as part of the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment project, the company […] 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

  • Perspecta Awarded CDC Public Health Data Analysis Support IDIQ; Mac Curtis Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta Awarded CDC Public Health Data Analysis Support IDIQ; Mac Curtis Quoted

    Perspecta has secured a potential five-year, $40M contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention address public health threats with the use of spatial data analysis and communication tools. The company said Tuesday it will combine geospatial statistics, epidemiology and environmental models with information technology methods in efforts to analyze location and health data […] 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

  • Deloitte to Help Update Medicaid IT Systems in Four States - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte to Help Update Medicaid IT Systems in Four States

    Deloitte has received contracts to provide a cloud-based enterprise information technology platform for the integration of new modules into the Medicaid systems being used in Montana, Ohio, Virginia and Wyoming. The company said Tuesday it will help state agencies implement the HealthInteractive Platform to address system modularity and interoperability requirements. The platform is based on IBM‘s Cloud technology that uses […] More