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  • Fulcrum Launches 2 New Defense Customer Support Offices in Virginia, North Carolina - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Launches 2 New Defense Customer Support Offices in Virginia, North Carolina

    Fulcrum has established two offices in northern Virginia and North Carolina to offer support services such as training and logistics to defense agencies and other local customers. The company said Feb. 1 its new Fayetteville, N.C., facility will accommodate the U.S. Special Operations Command and clients within Fort Bragg. Fulcrum’s northern Virginia branch will serve the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization. Both offices have conference rooms, communication […] More

  • 16 SAIC Employees Land Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Tony Moraco Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    16 SAIC Employees Land Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Tony Moraco Comments

    Sixteen employees of Science Applications International Corp. have received numerous awards at the 31st annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards’ science, technology, engineering and math conference in Washington. SAIC CEO Tony Moraco said in a statement released Friday that he is honored to recognize the company’s employees in their efforts to encourage younger generations to […] More

  • BAE Launches New San Diego Floating Dry Dock - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Launches New San Diego Floating Dry Dock

    BAE Systems has unveiled a new floating dry dock the company built to provide maintenance and repair services to U.S. Navy ships stationed in San Diego. The company said Friday the 950-foot-long platform is designed to lift up to 55,000 tons and will be paired with another dry dock to help maintain the service branch’s fleet. BAE dedicated its new dry dock at […] More

  • MEADS Team Pursues Dev't of Turkey's 1st Air & Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEADS Team Pursues Dev’t of Turkey’s 1st Air & Missile Defense System

    MEADS International, a joint venture between MBDA‘s German and Italian units and Lockheed Martin, has proposed a customized partnership with Turkey to develop the country’s first long-range air and missile defense system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes MEADS representatives have visited Turkey in previous months for preliminary talks and anticipate formal contract negotiations […] More

  • Austal, Navy to Christen 'Tulsa' Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal, Navy to Christen ‘Tulsa’ Littoral Combat Ship; Sean Stackley Comments

    Austal‘s U.S. subsidiary will host a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Independence-variant littoral combat ship at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The USS Tulsa, designated LCS 16, is the second Navy ship that honors the same-named city in Oklahoma and built to support the service branch’s near-shore environment and open-ocean operations. Tulsa is designed to eliminate asymmetric “anti-access” […] More

  • MRIGlobal to Evaluate Tech, Specimen Processes for NIH Tuberculosis Research Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MRIGlobal to Evaluate Tech, Specimen Processes for NIH Tuberculosis Research Initiatives

    A National Institutes of Health division has awarded MRIGlobal a potential $ 13.7 million contract to provide evaluation services in support of research initiatives on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The company said Feb. 1 it will work to analyze Mtb tools and specimen processes for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clinical investigations under the Mtb Quality Assessment requirement. […] More

  • Parsons Awarded NASA JPL Office Upgrade Support Contract; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Awarded NASA JPL Office Upgrade Support Contract; Carey Smith Comments

    Parsons has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide program management services for an office upgrade project at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The company said Thursday it will also provide architectural design and construction management support at JPL, which the California Institute of Technology.manages for the space agency. Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said the […] More

  • Blumberg Capital Survey: 72% of US Adults Rank Foreign Espionage as Top Govt Cybersecurity Concern - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blumberg Capital Survey: 72% of US Adults Rank Foreign Espionage as Top Govt Cybersecurity Concern

    Seventy-two percent of 1,012 U.S. adults who responded to a Blumberg Capital-backed survey have rank foreign espionage as the biggest cybersecurity threat facing the U.S. government. The 2017 State of Cybersecurity survey was conducted in collaboration with Researchscape and examined adults’ perception of cybersecurity challenges agencies, businesses and consumers face, Blumberg Capital said Wednesday. Twenty-three percent of respondents said they […] More

  • Microsoft, Missouri Enter Criminal Justice Information Services Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Missouri Enter Criminal Justice Information Services Agreement

    Microsoft and the state of Missouri have entered into an agreement to help law enforcement agencies protect criminal justice information through the use of the company’s cloud platform. Rochelle Eichner, director of risk and compliance for Microsoft’s Azure Government engineering team, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the company has signed Criminal Justice Information Services agreements with 26 states […] More

  • Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech Team Integrates New Terminal With AEHF Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech Team Integrates New Terminal With AEHF Payload

    A team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Comtech Telecommunications has integrated and tested a new terminal platform with an engineering model of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency payload. The Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech team developed the Low Cost Terminal in a push to address a demand for terminals that can offer mobile access to the AEHF military satellite communications network’s […] More

  • Advanced Optical Technologies May Use AFRL Instrumentation Under CRADA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Advanced Optical Technologies May Use AFRL Instrumentation Under CRADA

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s directed energy directorate and Advanced Optical Technologies have signed a five-year agreement that will allow the latter to use AFRL instrumentation at its Sandia Science & Technology Park facility. AFRL said Sunday the cooperative research and development agreement will help transition and introduce AOT’s laser sensors and metrology products to the aerospace, […] More

  • Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments

    The U.S. Army Mission Command has awarded Systematic a multimillion-dollar contract for the deployment of the company’s commercial off-the-shelf command, control, computing and communications software. Systematic said Feb. 3 its SitaWare platform will work to bolster situational awareness and cooperation of warfighters across the military branches. Rafael Torres, Systematic president, said SitaWare is designed to address the U.S. […] More