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  • Cubic to Help Migrate Atlanta's Fare Collection System to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Migrate Atlanta’s Fare Collection System to Cloud

    A Cubic business unit has received a potential $6.5 million contract to help the  Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority implement a cloud-based back office system to process transit fare payments. Cubic Transportation Systems partnered with Microsoft to migrate the city of Atlanta’s Breeze Card automated fare collection system to the Azure cloud platform,  Cubic said Tuesday. CTS will also leverage the NextFare central […] More

  • SPA Opens New DC Satellite Office; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Opens New DC Satellite Office; William Vantine Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has opened a Washington, D.C.-based satellite office for the company’s strategic operations and security division. The company said its new office is close to the Washington Navy Yard and features a storage room for classified material as well as a conference room equipped with touch screen monitors and projectors to display data. “SPA continues […] More

  • Navigant Research: DoD’s Annual Spending on Microgrid Deployments to Reach $1.4B in 2026 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navigant Research: DoD’s Annual Spending on Microgrid Deployments to Reach $1.4B in 2026

    A new study from Navigant Research predicts the Defense Department’s annual spending on microgrid implementation efforts to hit $453.4 million this year and grow to $1.4 billion over the next nine years. Navigant Research said Tuesday DoD has begun to explore microgrids in an effort to build up its cyber energy security and reduce dependence […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Help Deploy Planet's Earth Imagery Satellites Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Help Deploy Planet’s Earth Imagery Satellites Into Orbit

    Orbital ATK is scheduled to launch Planet‘s Earth imaging satellites at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Tuesday at 2:37 p.m. Pacific time. Orbital ATK said Monday its Minotaur C rocket will carry a total of 10 SkySat and Dove remote sensing satellites, which will work to collect medium- and high-resolution multispectral Earth imagery for commercial […] More

  • ICF to Administer National Tobacco Survey Under CDC Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF to Administer National Tobacco Survey Under CDC Task Order

    ICF has received a potential five-year, $13 million task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to administer a national survey that will collect information about the prevalence of tobacco use among youth. CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health commissioned ICF to help the agency examine  behaviors and attitudes of students in grades six to 12 […] More

  • DynCorp to Deliver Equipment Related Services for Army TACOM Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp to Deliver Equipment Related Services for Army TACOM Services

    DynCorp International has received a potential $14.5 million contract to deliver equipment related services in support of U.S. Army TACOM Strategic Services Solutions. The contract entails the company to contribute qualified personnel, general mechanics tool kits and site supervision to Army TRADOC training locations in Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia, DynCorp said Monday. The order holds a one-year […] More

  • SSL Lands Comms Satellite Delivery Contract With Embratel Star One - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL Lands Comms Satellite Delivery Contract With Embratel Star One

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL business has received a contract to deliver a communications satellite to Brazil-based Embratel Star One. SSL said Monday the Star One D2 satellite will work to provide broadband coverage and information services to businesses and clients in Central America, Mexico, South America and other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. The satellite is […] More

  • Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter

    Orbital ATK has won a potential $34 million contract to provide a secondary payload adapter for the U.S. Air Force‘s long-duration propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The Defense Department said Monday the contract will also extend the Air Force Space Command’s standard rideshare service policy and build on previous development efforts for EELV secondary payload adapter technology. Orbital ATK will perform work […] More

  • DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Service Provider has reached out to industry to gather ideas on how JSP can implement a software-defined network technology to modernize network infrastructure at the Pentagon. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 20 said JSP aims to simplify and update the DoD network infrastructure with the use of orchestration, routing and virtualization tools. The organization […] More

  • Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos ‘Denied GPS’ Aerial Navigation Software With Air Force, Navy

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated its navigation platform designed to guide military aircraft and aerial weapon systems to maritime and ground targets without using GPS signals. The company said Monday it teamed up with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to test the capability of its All Source Adaptive […] More

  • Lockheed to Design Undersea Vehicle for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Design Undersea Vehicle for Navy

    Lockheed Martin has won a potential $43.2 million contract to design an underwater platform as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program. The Navy seeks an XLUUV platform equipped with a reconfigurable payload bay that will work to help the service branch launch, recover, operate and communicate with the system from a home […] More

  • CAE to Lease Space at BAE's Aviation Training Facility in Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Lease Space at BAE’s Aviation Training Facility in Australia

    BAE Systems has signed an agreement to lease a portion of its flight training center in New South Wales, Australia, to CAE‘s Oxford Aviation Training Academy. CAE will use leased space at BAE’s Tamworth facility as a training ground for commercial pilot trainees, BAE said Tuesday. “We are working collaboratively with local community leaders to consider options for the site […] More