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  • UL Receives DARPA Grant to Test Internet-of-Things Gateway Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UL Receives DARPA Grant to Test Internet-of-Things Gateway Security

    Northbrook, Illinois-based security company UL has secured a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to perform cybersecurity tests of internet-of-things gateways designed for industrial control system applications. UL said Wednesday it aims to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that can affect the cybersecurity of an ICS as well as data that traverses the gateway outside the ICS. […] More

  • Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Indigenous Technologies-Telos Team to Help Manage Indian Health Service IT Network

    The Department of Health and Human Services has selected a team composed of Indigenous Technologies and Telos to help operate the Indian Health Service‘s information technology network that supports care services delivery for American Indian and Alaska Native people. The team will host infrastructure engineering and operations services through a Telos facility in Las Vegas and help IHS […] More

  • Law Enforcement Agencies Aim to Locate Missing Persons With Special Needs Via Lockheed Indago UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Law Enforcement Agencies Aim to Locate Missing Persons With Special Needs Via Lockheed Indago UAS

    Sheriff’s agencies in New Jersey and Virginia have begun to deploy a Lockheed Martin-built quadrotor unmanned aircraft system designed to facilitate search-and-rescue missions as part of a program that seeks to find missing individuals with special needs. Lockheed’s Indago small UAS is integrated with an electronic equipment from Project Lifesaver International to help first responders locate missing […] More

  • James Willis, Steve Fitz-Gerald to Join QinetiQ in Managing Director Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Willis, Steve Fitz-Gerald to Join QinetiQ in Managing Director Roles

    James Willis, currently head of defense and security at Vodafone UK, and Steve Fitz-Gerald, formerly CEO of Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, will join QinetiQ as managing directors for two different business areas. QinetiQ said Tuesday both appointees will also serve on the company’s executive committee and report directly to CEO Steve Wadey. “James and Steve have proven track records of growth in […] More

  • Mary Tabb Howard Named Buchanan & Edwards Strategic Capture Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Tabb Howard Named Buchanan & Edwards Strategic Capture Director

    Mary Tabb Howard, former senior proposal manager at Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary, has joined Buchanan & Edwards as director of strategic capture. BE said Tuesday Howard will oversee efforts to grow the company’s contract opportunities in the national security market. “We’re extremely excited Mary is joining our team to help us expand our support to agencies […] More

  • Cubic to Recruit More Professionals to Develop Learning Tech Platforms for Navy LCS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Recruit More Professionals to Develop Learning Tech Platforms for Navy LCS Program

    Cubic‘s global defense segment plans to recruit new employees to support the development of learning products and services for the U.S. Navy at a company facility in Orlando, Florida. The company said Wednesday it secured more than $12 million in contract funds to create game-based courseware for the service branch’s littoral combat ships. Cubic currently employs more than 235 personnel at its Orlando […] More

  • Interior Dept Taps AT&T to Provide Mobile Device Mgmt Platform; Mike Leff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Interior Dept Taps AT&T to Provide Mobile Device Mgmt Platform; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T will deliver IBM‘s mobile device management platform to the Interior Department to help DOI protect and manage 27,000 mobile devices. AT&T, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, said Tuesday it will provide IBM’s Maas360 mobile device management platform to DOI as an authorized reseller. Mike Leff, vice president of AT&T’s global public sector business for civilian agencies, said the […] More

  • Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System

    Northrop Grumman has turned over a mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial production contract awarded in October 2014. The company said Tuesday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five legacy radars being used by Marines and the system’s architecture works to interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATOR is designed to detect, track and engage a range […] More

  • Buchanan & Edwards to Unveil Chantilly, VA Innovation Center in June; Dennis Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Buchanan & Edwards to Unveil Chantilly, VA Innovation Center in June; Dennis Kelly Comments

    Buchanan & Edwards will open a Chantilly, Virginia-based innovation center next month as part of expansion efforts following the information technology consulting firm’s acquisition of Reports and Requirements Company. BE said Tuesday it signed a five-year lease to occupy office space at 15040 Conference Center Drive in a move to further its strategic development goals in the national security market. The leased […] More

  • Lockheed Showcases Autonomous Tech for Military & Commercial Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Showcases Autonomous Tech for Military & Commercial Customers

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a range of autonomous and unmanned technologies for reporters at the company’s Grand Prairie, Texas-based Missiles and Fire Control facility. The technologies include the Indago quadrotor unmanned aerial system, LM XE small UAS; Hydra Fusion Tools three-dimensional reconstruction software, Squad Mission Support System autonomous vehicle and Site Shuttle transport system, Lockheed said Tuesday. Chris Van Buiten, […] More

  • CGI to Provide Cloud Hosting, Digital App Services for LA Govt's Financial Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Provide Cloud Hosting, Digital App Services for LA Govt’s Financial Systems

    CGI has secured a 10-year, $43 million contract to provide cloud-hosting and managed digital application services for Los Angeles City’s accounting, budgeting and financial reporting systems. CGI said Tuesday it will deliver its Managed Advantage offering, which serves as the company’s managed service for its CGI Advantage enterprise resource planning system. Managed Advantage is designed to provide a single-vendor […] More

  • Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, HawkEye 360 Sign MoU to Integrate Geolocation, RF Services

    HawkEye 360 and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions have inked a memorandum of understanding to integrate the latter’s carrier monitoring, interference detection and geolocation offerings with the former’s planned space-based radio frequency detection and geolocation services. The alliance will look to augment Kratos’ sensor network technologies with HawkEye 360’s RF detection and geolocation offerings to boost the speed and […] More