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  • DSA Holds Spot on $37B Army RS3 IDIQ Contract; Fran Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Holds Spot on $37B Army RS3 IDIQ Contract; Fran Pierce Comments

    Data Systems Analysts is one of the 55 companies that will vie for task orders under the U.S. Army‘s potential 10-year, $37.4 billion Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract awarded in May. DSA said it will offer research, development, test and evaluation, acquisition, strategic planning, logistics, training, education and engineering services to the Defense Department  and other […] More

  • Virtustream, Pivotal Forge Cloud-Based App Deployment Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virtustream, Pivotal Forge Cloud-Based App Deployment Partnership

    Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has teamed up with Pivotal to deliver an enterprise-grade cloud service offering to clients that use the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform to build and field applications in hybrid cloud environments. Kevin Reid, president and chief technology officer at Virtustream, said in a statement released Wednesday the Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service offering […] More

  • SAIC's Tony Moraco Expects Increased Govt Contracting Activity for Fiscal 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC’s Tony Moraco Expects Increased Govt Contracting Activity for Fiscal 2017

    Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., has said he expects an increase in government contracting activity as federal agencies move to obligate funds for the rest of fiscal year 2017, FCW reported Wednesday. Moraco, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told investors and analysts during SAIC’s fiscal 2018 first-quarter earnings call that he observed many agencies looking to […] More

  • Report: DARPA, Boeing to Test, Launch Reusable Spaceplane at Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DARPA, Boeing to Test, Launch Reusable Spaceplane at Cape Canaveral

    Rick Weiss, a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said Cape Canaveral in Florida will serve as the site for flight tests and launch operations for a hypersonic aircraft to be developed under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. DARPA partnered with Boeing in May to build an unmanned reusable spaceplane – […] More

  • 2 Boeing Subsidiaries Partner for VIP Flight Services to Air Mobility Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2 Boeing Subsidiaries Partner for VIP Flight Services to Air Mobility Command

    A team composed of Boeing subsidiaries Tapestry Solutions and Jeppesen has secured a potential five-year, $28 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide  executive airlift flight dispatch services to the Air Mobility Command. Tapestry said Wednesday the team will help AMC transport very important persons such as the U.S. president, vice president, first lady, cabinet leaders, Congress members, senior military leaders […] More

  • Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments

    Gigamon has launched its visibility platform on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud environment to help public sector organizations manage and secure sensitive data and regulated workloads. Gigamon said Tuesday the availability of the Visibility offering builds on the company’s push to offer first-to-market services in the AWS Cloud as well as efforts to achieve a public sector […] More

  • MDA Seeks Industry Info on High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Seeks Industry Info on High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS

    The Missile Defense Agency has posted a request for information on a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system that can provide support in the 2023 timeframe. MDA said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that the UAS should be able to carry a high energy laser system payload to high altitudes to mature boost phase intercept, or the capacity to destroy missiles while […] More

  • Varley Group to Help Build Portable Ground Facilities for Deployed Air Force F-35 Support Crews - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Varley Group to Help Build Portable Ground Facilities for Deployed Air Force F-35 Support Crews

    Varley Group has received a $37.5 million contract to collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the design and development of portable ground facilities for U.S. Air Force  personnel deployed overseas to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Varley Group said Thursday it will build ground facilities that can expand thrice the size of a shipping container as well as house the F-35 aircraft’s Autonomic […] More

  • NIST Picks 33 Research Projects to Advance Communication Tech Devt for First Responders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Picks 33 Research Projects to Advance Communication Tech Devt for First Responders

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected 33 projects to research and develop broadband communications tools designed for public safety operations through multiyear grants worth $38.5 million combined. NIST selected the projects after the evaluation of 162 proposals from industry, academia and other organizations both in the U.S. and overseas as part of the […] More

  • VSE to Repair, Maintain Ground Equipment at USAF Facility in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE to Repair, Maintain Ground Equipment at USAF Facility in Japan

    VSE has received a potential three-year, $22.3 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force repair and maintain aerospace ground and support equipment at the service branch’s Kadena Air Base in Japan. The company said Wednesday it will also work to prevent and treat corrosion on equipment operated by the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Group, […] More

  • AWS Unveils 'City on a Cloud' Innovation Challenge Winners; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Unveils ‘City on a Cloud’ Innovation Challenge Winners; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has selected 19 winners for its 2017 AWS City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge to highlight local and regional governments’ contribution to develop technologies for citizens around the world. The company said Wednesday it named winners across the Best Practices, Dream Big and Partners in Innovation categories during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Teresa […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Provide Navy E-2D Hawkeye Tactics Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Provide Navy E-2D Hawkeye Tactics Trainer

    Rockwell Collins‘ simulation and training solutions business has secured a $34.2 million contract to deliver a training system for the U.S. Navy‘s E2-D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform aircraft-to-simulator concurrency updates; implement aircraft change directives/engineering change proposals; and integrate and test software applications under the E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training Systems III […] More