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  • Australian Agency Selects Data#3 as Microsoft Licensing Services Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australian Agency Selects Data#3 as Microsoft Licensing Services Provider

    Data#3 has won a contract from Australia’s digital transformation agency to provide Microsoft software licensing services to the country’s government. The company said Friday it offered a platform to address DTA’s requirements and demonstrated the company’s technical and consultative skills to win the competitive tender process. Contract work will support Australian agencies at the federal, state and territory levels. […] More

  • CACI to Open Oklahoma-Based Shared Services Center; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Open Oklahoma-Based Shared Services Center; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has announced it will establish a shared services center in Oklahoma City to expand its business operations and workforce in the state. The company said Thursday it aims to consolidate some of CACI’s transactional functions into the Oklahoma-based SSC in an effort to simplify the delivery of services to customers. CACI President and […] More

  • Lockheed-MBDA JV to Pursue Germany's Integrated Air & Missile Defense System Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-MBDA JV to Pursue Germany’s Integrated Air & Missile Defense System Program

    Lockheed Martin and MBDA have formed a joint venture to negotiate a contract to develop the German armed forces’ TLVS integrated air and missile defense system. The TLVS GmbH joint venture is slated to become the prime contractor of the deal, which is under negotiations with Germany’s military procurement office, MBDA said Thursday. MBDA representative Dietmar Thelen and […] More

  • Report: SOCOM Briefs Industry on Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: SOCOM Briefs Industry on Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle Program

    The U.S. Special Operations Command held an industry day in February to discuss with vendors its performance specifications and technical requirements for the Purpose Built Non-Standard Commercial Vehicle program, The Drive reported Wednesday. The PB-NSCV program seeks to facilitate the procurement of a purpose-built vehicle with a common chassis and drivetrain designed to replace SOCOM’s fleet […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Provide Afghan Air Force ISR Aircraft Under $86M USAF Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK and $86.4 million contract to manufacture  armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for Afghanistan’s air force. Orbital ATK will provide AC-208 aircraft under the “pseudo” foreign military sales contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Contract work will occur in Fort Worth, Texas through June 9, 2019. The 645th Aeronautical Systems […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Unveil In-Orbit Robotic Servicing Platform at Satellite 2018 Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Unveil In-Orbit Robotic Servicing Platform at Satellite 2018 Conference

    Orbital ATK will launch its in-orbit satellite servicing platform on March 13 at the four-day Satellite 2018 conference and exhibition slated to kick off Monday in Washington, D.C. David Thompson, Orbital ATK president and CEO, will join Tom Wilson, president of SpaceLogistics, to introduce the robotic servicing system – Mission Extension Vehicle – at the event, […] More

  • Accenture Helps Politico Create Global AI Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Helps Politico Create Global AI Forum

    Politico has selected Accenture to be the founding partner of a global artificial intelligence forum that aims to educate business and government leaders on the impact and use of AI technology. Accenture said Thursday the program will involve a series of AI summits and roundtable discussions across Europe and U.S., with the first summit scheduled for March 19 and […] More

  • Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO

    Steve Grewal, formerly deputy chief information officer at the General Services Administration, has joined Cohesity as chief technology officer of federal and Eastern U.S. business at the San Jose, California-based data storage vendor. The 15-year government information technology veteran will lead Cohesity’s expansion efforts expansion efforts in the federal market, Cohesity said Wednesday. Prior to his two-year tenure at GSA, Grewal worked at […] More

  • Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow

    Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary and acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has been named a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. She will work with APL’s technical professionals to help inform policy and technology decisionmaking in the U.S. government and military, the laboratory said Tuesday. Disbrow managed nearly 660,000 airmen and USAF’s […] More

  • CAE USA to Build Seahawk Helicopter Training System for Brazilian Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE USA to Build Seahawk Helicopter Training System for Brazilian Navy

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received a foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Navy to build a training system for the Brazilian navy’s S-70B Seahawk helicopter crew. The company said Wednesday it intends to produce a fixed-base operational flight trainer and weapons tactics trainer that can function independently or operate together as a tactical operational flight training platform. S-70B OFT […] More

  • CIS Offers Securely-Configured Virtual Images via AWS' U.S. Govt. Cloud Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CIS Offers Securely-Configured Virtual Images via AWS’ U.S. Govt. Cloud Marketplace

    The Center for Internet Security has added its “hardened” virtual images to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud marketplace for U.S. government customers. CIS said Wednesday its CIS Hardened Images are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) marketplace and have been accessible to other customers through the AWS Marketplace since 2015. CIS Hardened Images are types of Amazon Machine Images […] More

  • DXC Unveils Applications Security on Demand Testing Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC Unveils Applications Security on Demand Testing Service

    DXC Technology has launched its consumption-based applications security testing service that can identify and address vulnerabilities during the app development lifecycle. The DXC Applications Security on Demand is based on Micro Focus‘ software and makes DXC the first global provider of the former’s Fortify on Demand app security managed service, DXC said Wednesday. Applications Security on Demand […] More