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  • Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected Redwood City, California-based Box to provide a cloud content management platform for FDA’s information technology modernization project. Sonny Hashmi, managing director of Box’s global government business, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the company will help FDA digitize and automate processes that leverage content portal for agency personnel to collaborate and exchange […] More

  • Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Secures USPTO Data Storage, Mgmt Contract; Michael Lewis Comments

    Iron Mountain has received a potential five-year, $6.7 million contract to store and manage approximately 4.6 million patent files for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday it will capture, pack and transfer all USPTO records from the agency’s current data repository to an Iron Mountain storage facility built to comply with National Archives […] More

  • Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya‘s government solutions business has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its unified communications product line through a partnership with collab9. The Avaya Aura Communication Manager product portfolio is now available to government agencies as a FedRAMP-compliant offering with an authority to operate at the moderate level, Avaya said Thursday. Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya […] More

  • Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule

    Capt. Emily Grabowski, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, has said the service branch believes Raytheon could supply enough Small Diameter Bomb II units for initial deployment on the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft by 2019, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Grabowski told Bloomberg in an email the company “has worked diligently to address technical discoveries and is implementing the necessary factory infrastructure improvements […] More

  • SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase

    Kinetics Drive Solutions will serve as a subcontractor of Science Applications International Corp. on the production and deployment phase of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Amphibious Assault Vehicle Survivability Upgrade program. SAIC received an initial low-rate initial production contract to deliver additional AAV SU platforms equipped with Kinetics-built MD500 marine drive power-take-off and InfiniDrive HMX3000 transmission […] More

  • Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities

    Leonardo has wrapped up the delivery of a cyber monitoring and response service to multiple NATO locations under an expanded contract. The company said Wednesday it worked with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to deploy the NATO Cyber Incident Response Capability – Full Operational Capability service to approximately 70,000 NATO users. In August 2015, Leonardo received an expansion contract to […] More

  • Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia’s Immigration and Border Protection Unit

    Unisys has secured a potential three-year, $60.4 million contract extension to provide managed end-user computing and infrastructure support services for staff members of Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection around the world. The company said Wednesday that it will continue to offer first level service desk, immigration systems and infrastructure support for the DIBP’s […] More

  • NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide on how […] More

  • VSE Reports Additional Navy FMS Maritime Support Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Reports Additional Navy FMS Maritime Support Orders

    VSE secured $35.6 million in new delivery orders from the Naval Sea Systems Command last month for the provision of maritime program support to U.S. allied navies. The orders awarded under a foreign military sales contract encompasses logistics, planning, repair and maintenance management, procurement, technical assistance, training and engineering services to four FMS customers, VSE said Wednesday. […] More

  • MIL Corp Lands Second ISO Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp Lands Second ISO Certification

    MIL Corp. has obtained a second certification from the International Organization for Standardization that recognizes quality management at the company’s command, control, communications and computer engineering business. The ISO 901:2015 certification came after International Quality Registars evaluated and validated quality management processes at MIL’s engineering integration facility,  MIL said Monday. The audit covered areas such as cyber, solution, software and […] More

  • SPA Gets ISO Quality Mgmt Certification; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Gets ISO Quality Mgmt Certification; William Vantine Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has received certification from the International Organization for Standardization following an independent audit of the company’s quality management system. SPA said Wednesday the ISO 9001:2015 certificate validates its efforts to manage customer satisfaction, workplace efficiency and quality control processes. William Vantine, SPA president and CEO, said the company aims to further improve its internal […] More

  • ARServices to Support Navy Business Transformation Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARServices to Support Navy Business Transformation Initiative

    The Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations’ department of capabilities and resources has selected ARServices to support ongoing business transformation efforts under the Operational Effectiveness Initiative. ARServices said Wednesday it will offer business transformation services personnel to support the U.S. Navy‘s N8 department on a mission to reevaluate current organizational structures and procedures. The […] More