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  • MTSI to Assist Navy, MDA in Kinetic Energy Weapon Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MTSI to Assist Navy, MDA in Kinetic Energy Weapon Evaluation

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a five-year, $8 million task order to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and the Missile Defense Agency in efforts to assess kinetic energy weapons designed to counter ballistic missile threats. MTSI said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e contract vehicle and calls for the […] More

  • HighPoint Global’s John Loughlin: Agencies Need ‘Balanced Scorecard’ to Measure Citizen Experience Performance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HighPoint Global’s John Loughlin: Agencies Need ‘Balanced Scorecard’ to Measure Citizen Experience Performance

    John Loughlin, director of business insights at HighPoint Global, has said government agencies should implement a “balanced scorecard” to measure performance in their efforts to build up citizen experience and satisfaction with government services. Loughlin wrote in a Federal News Radio commentary piece published Monday that such a scorecard works to divide “critical performance measures” […] More

  • Andy Wright: BAE Adopts Collaborative Strategy to Support Defense Tech Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Wright: BAE Adopts Collaborative Strategy to Support Defense Tech Devt

    BAE Systems has worked with small and medium enterprises, academia and government entities to support the development of emerging and disruptive technologies. Andy Wright, strategic technical director at BAE, wrote in a blog post published Monday that organizations and academic institutions should combine skill-sets and expertise to help create new technologies for military customers and governments. “Bringing […] More

  • Northrop to Overhaul Air Force KC-10 Extender Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Overhaul Air Force KC-10 Extender Engines

    Northrop Grumman‘s technical services business has won a $16.9 million delivery  order from the U.S. Air Force to overhaul engines of the service branch’s KC-10 Extender  tanker and cargo aircraft. The Air Force received two offers for the delivery order through an “adequate price” competition and will use fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds to cover the full […] More

  • COMSAT Lands Contract to Deliver Inmarsat Global Xpress Satcom Service to DoD Users in Africa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    COMSAT Lands Contract to Deliver Inmarsat Global Xpress Satcom Service to DoD Users in Africa

    COMSAT has received a contract to provide Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communication services to Defense Department personnel in Africa. COMSAT runs a Multiprotocol Label Switching network that uses Global Xpress to support Non-classified Internet Protocol Router/Secret Internet Protocol Router services, Inmarsat said Monday. Inmarsat partners with COMSAT and other value-added resellers to deliver Global Xpress as a […] More

  • NIST Seeks Info on Virtual Electrode Sources for Human Body Comms-Based Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Info on Virtual Electrode Sources for Human Body Comms-Based Systems

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun its search for potential industry sources of virtual electrodes that will work to facilitate the development of technology platforms designed to use the human body as a means to establish communications among wireless devices. NIST said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday the electrodes will work […] More

  • Eagle Hill to Offer Human Capital Services via GSA Schedule 738X - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eagle Hill to Offer Human Capital Services via GSA Schedule 738X

    Eagle Hill Consulting has been awarded a spot on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 738X contract vehicle to offer human resources support services to federal agencies. The company said Monday it will provide organizational development, workforce planning, human capital strategy, organizational design, position classification, diversity and inclusion and employee engagement and communications services through Schedule 738X. GSA created the schedule as […] More

  • L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has secured a $37.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver multioption and point detonating/delay fuzes to Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said Tuesday L3’s fuzing and ordnance systems business will supply 38,284 M734A1 and 165,426 M783 mortar fuzes under the foreign military sales contract. Work will occur in Cincinnati, Ohio, through May 31, 2019. The Army Contracting Command received […] More

  • Paul Wooster: SpaceX, NASA Identify 4 Potential Mars Landing Sites for Red Dragon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Wooster: SpaceX, NASA Identify 4 Potential Mars Landing Sites for Red Dragon

    SpaceX has started to collaborate with NASA to determine potential landing sites for the firm’s Red Dragon space vehicle and future manned missions on Mars, Space News reported Monday. Jeff Foust writes Paul Wooster, spacecraft guidance, navigation and control systems manager at SpaceX, said at a symposium held Saturday in Texas that SpaceX and NASA’s […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Defense Tech Modernization Programs Spur US Foreign Military Sales - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Defense Tech Modernization Programs Spur US Foreign Military Sales

    A Frost & Sullivan report predicts the Defense Department‘s foreign military sales program will experience a compound annual growth rate of 3.4 percent through 2021 as international government customers move to increase defense spending, update military equipment and respond to regional tensions. The research firm said Monday it found that ground-based air defense, fighter aircraft and tactical vehicle systems are the most requested and delivered […] More

  • Naval War College Team Wins Top Prize in Cyber Policy Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval War College Team Wins Top Prize in Cyber Policy Competition

    A team of U.S. Naval War College students has won first place at the Atlantic Council-sponsored Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge in Washington. The U.S. Navy said Monday the three-day contest was held at the American University’s Washington College of Law and drew 48 college teams from 32 schools across the world. Participants were required to write a policy brief in […] More

  • Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation

    Tony Scott, former federal chief information officer and administrator of the Office of Management and Budget‘s e-government and information technology unit. is set to join Washington-based Baldrige Foundation in April as a member of the board of directors. Al Faber, president and CEO of the Baldrige Foundation, said in a statement released Tuesday that Scott played a key role […] More