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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order in Wisconsin Tuesday that will order a review of the H-1B highly-skilled worker immigration visa program, a move that the White House says will encourage tech companies to hire American workers instead of cheaper foreign labor. The “buy American, hire American” directive does not make any immediate changes […] More
Leidos will offer global technical services and field support to the U.S. Army‘s tactical unmanned aircraft systems, universal ground control stations and universal ground data terminals through the company’s position under a potential $900 million contract awarded earlier this month. The company said Wednesday it will vie for contract work in the areas of non-repetitive development, analysis and corrective action, […] More
Steve Ballmer, a former CEO of Microsoft, has launched an initiative that aims to boost the accessibility of government data on tax revenues, expenditures and spending outcomes. The USAFacts project works to collect data from approximately 130 government statistical databases to create products such as a document modeled after the 10-K form that companies file with the Securities […] More
Seventeen years ago, Evan Scott decided to focus on what he really loves, recruiting, and create ESGI, a firm that specializes in the federal contracting business. Although he had spent the previous 21 years building an executive search firm primarily in the commercial sector, Scott thought that the post 9/11 world provided a unique opportunity. […] More
A business unit of VSE has received a potential five-year, $16.6 million contract to overhaul, modify and repair engines in the State Department‘s fleet of 85 UH-1H “Huey” helicopters. Prime Turbines will perform work on T53-L-703 engines in support of the aviation office at DoS’ Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the company said Tuesday. Paul Goffredi, president and chief operating officer of VSE’s aviation […] More
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on plans to transition small agencies and tribal government customers from expiring telecommunications and network services contracts to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement vehicle. GSA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it has created an approach to help small agencies and native American tribes complete their shift from […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, said in an interview aired Monday on Federal News Radio that commercial satellite communications services play a critical role in military communications amid delays and other challenges facing military satcom programs. Cowen-Hirsch told Federal Tech Talk host John Gilroy that a commercial satcom service is designed […] More
BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $9.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research under DARPA’s Dispersed Computing initiative. The Defense Department said Tuesday the DCOMP program aims to produce software instantations of algorithms and protocol stacks that can use dispersed computing platforms to help boost application and network performance. […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More
Orbital ATK launched a Cygnus spacecraft Tuesday as part of the company’s seventh operational cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract. The company said Tuesday the spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. John Glenn, lifted off at 11:11 a.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket on a mission […] More
Centennial, Colorado-based electronic surveillance services provider Subsentio has secured clearance from the U.S. government to export a cloud-based virtual surveillance platform to a customer in Europe. The company said Tuesday its Subsentio cloud-based virtual lawful intercept platform meets the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s technical requirements. Steve Bock, Subsentio president and CEO, said the approval reflects the […] More
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded CSRA a potential $58 million contract to provision, maintain and support EPA’s high-performance computing environment and laboratory projects related to environmental modeling and visualization. CSRA said Tuesday it will also provide technical support for scientific computing projects and visualization platforms under the contract. “We are thrilled to secure this new contract […] More
