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  • Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support

    A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

  • Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers

    Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More

  • Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos Bluefin-21, Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drones at Navy Tech Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos Bluefin-21, Bluefin SandShark Underwater Drones at Navy Tech Exercise

    General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit demonstrated its autonomous underwater vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Naval Technology Exercises held in August at the service branch’s Narragansett Bay test facility in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Friday a Bluefin-21 AUV deployed two Bluefin SandShark micro-AUVs to perform target imagery transmission and data collection simulations in one […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Army Contract Modification for Gray Eagle Test, Evaluation Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Army Contract Modification for Gray Eagle Test, Evaluation Support

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $17.3 million contract modification to provide final operational test and evaluation services for the U.S. Army’s Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will deliver such services to support the deployment of the drone’s software 4.3.4 version, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur […] More

  • Air Force Picks Harris for B-1 Systems Engineering Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Harris for B-1 Systems Engineering Support IDIQ

    Harris Corp. has received a potential five-year, $9.8 million contract to provide sustaining engineering support services for the U.S. Air Force’s testing laboratory for B-1 reprogrammable electronic warfare systems and defensive avionics platforms. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers support for special test equipment of the service branch’s 53rd electronic warfare group and B-52 electronic warfare mission […] More

  • DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services

    Data Monitor Systems has won a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract from the  Defense Logistics Agency to provide fuel management services to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the contract contains four base years, one five-year option and six months of extension beyond the ordering period. The company is scheduled to finish work by Dec. 31, 2020. DLA received eight bids for the […] More

  • Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force's Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force’s Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems

    Atlantic CommTech Corp. has won a $36.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize the service branch’s Weapon Storage and Security System and Alarm Communication and Display. The Defense Department said Friday the company will perform sustainment upgrades to the WS3 cryptographic platform that works to encrypt the system’s alarm data. ACT-Corp will also replace obsolete components and the […] More

  • Forbes, Bessemer Venture Partners Recognize Cloudera on List of Top 100 Cloud Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forbes, Bessemer Venture Partners Recognize Cloudera on List of Top 100 Cloud Companies

    Cloudera has been recognized in Forbes and Bessemer Venture Partners‘ 2016 top 100 list of private cloud companies that lead the cloud technology revolution as well as the rising stars in the field. Cloudera said Wednesday it has ranked 5th on the Forbes Cloud 100 list due to the company’s revenue growth and its Apache Hadoop-based data management and […] More

  • EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EmeSec Unveils Advisory Board of Cybersecurity Leaders to Support Expansion Efforts

    Chantilly, Virginia-based EmeSec has formed an advisory board that consists of information technology, business development and government professionals in the cybersecurity industry. The cloud computing, security and engineering services company said Wednesday its new advisory board will work to provide perspective on market and business development opportunities, macro-economic trends as well as EmeSec’s customer service and go-to-market strategies. “As cloud cybersecurity services and […] More

  • NCEO Lists Janus Global Operations as 16th Largest Employee-Owned Company in US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCEO Lists Janus Global Operations as 16th Largest Employee-Owned Company in US

    Janus Global Operations has landed the 16th spot on the National Center for Employee Ownership‘s list of 100 largest U.S. companies with employee-ownership plans. JGO said Friday the company ranked 41st in 2015 on NCEO’s Employee Ownership 100 list — a ranking of the largest U.S.-based companies according to Employee Stock Ownership Plans or plans wherein 50 percent or […] More

  • OGSystems Lands Spot on 2016 Inc. 500|5000 List; Omar Balkissoon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Lands Spot on 2016 Inc. 500|5000 List; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    OGSystems has been included in the 2016 Inc. 500|5000 list that recognizes the country’s fastest-growing private companies based on percentage revenue growth when comparing 2012 to 2015. OGSystems has been included on this prestigious list for the fifth consecutive year and ranked 2122nd on the list composed of companies that averaged a 433 percent growth rate within a […] More