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Kearney and Co. has won a potential $46.6 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to conduct a financial statement audit of the Defense Health Program. The labor-hour contract has an 18-month base period plus three one-year options, the Defense Department said Thursday. DFAS received two quotes via a competitive acquisition process and […] More
The U.S. economy added 222,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate held at 4.4 percent, according to a government report Friday. Job growth has averaged approximately 180,000 per month in 2017, slightly above the 187,000 mark in 2016.Wages remained stagnant, rising only a sluggish 0.2 percent. Hourly earnings on an annualized basis grew 2.5 […] More
An Independence-variant littoral combat ship built by Austal USA for the U.S. Navy has completed a maiden voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to a naval base in San Diego, California. USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) underwent combat ship qualification trials, crew certification training and scheduled equipment and system checks during the vessel’s expedition, the Navy said Thursday. Austal USA […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot-fire tests on a power processing unit for an electric propulsion system that the company currently developed for NASA. The company said Thursday it tested the Advanced Electric Propulsion System‘s power processing unit at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, together with the agency’s technology development unit thruster and a xenon flow […] More
A new IBM study says 73 percent of global CEOs said they believe cognitive computing will play a role in the future of their businesses. The company said Thursday it surveyed at least 6,000 CEOs across industries worldwide and found that 50 percent of respondents said they plan to implement cognitive computing systems by 2019. […] More
A MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates subsidiary has received a firm-fixed-price contract to build satellites for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView Legion satellite constellation designed to collect Earth imaging data. Space Systems Loral will produce the low-Earth orbit satellites at its Palo Alto, California-based facility, SSL said Thursday. Richard White, president of SSL’s government systems business, said the contract seeks […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a potential $50.1 million contract to manufacture nose shell assemblies and transducer arrays for the U.S. Navy‘s MK 48 torpedo. The company said Thursday it will produce 45 torpedo components under the contract’s base term worth approximately $9.6 million. Northrop would build up to 180 additional components over five years if the […] More
A business unit of McAfee has completed a two-month evaluation of a Unisys-made operating system designed to help enterprise clients manage high-volume computing tasks. Unisys said Thursday that McAfee’s Foundstone Services business has rated the ClearPath OS 2200 platform “highly secure” and the resource protection capacity of the system “exceptional.” During the assessment, Foundstone found the software works to […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a conference on July 26 to provide information on a new agency program that aims to help developers and architects use cryptographic techniques to build distributed applications. IARPA said the conference will take place in Washington and will field inquiries from potential vendors on the Homomorphic Encryption Computing […] More
Orbital ATK has received a five-year, $53.6 million contract modification to supply an undisclosed number of M1156 precision guidance kits to the U.S. Army. The full obligated amount at the time of award is from the service branch’s fiscal 2017 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur at an Orbital ATK facility in Plymouth, […] More
A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has secured approximately $6.9 million in cybersecurity training orders from multiple federal government and commercial enterprise customers. TeleCommunication Systems received the orders through Comtech’s command and control technologies group, which is part of the company’s government solutions arm, Comtech said Thursday. The command and control technologies group provides mobile command, control, […] More
Judith Bjornaas, chief financial officer of ManTech International, has been named to the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce for calendar years 2017 and 2018. The Northern Virginia Chamber said Thursday it also appointed officers and members of the organization’s executive committee for 2017-2018. Bjornaas previously served as senior vice president of […] More
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