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  • DoD Picks 160 University Researchers to Receive Instrumentation Acquisition Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Picks 160 University Researchers to Receive Instrumentation Acquisition Funds

    The Defense Department has awarded $47 million in total grants to 160 university researchers at 84 institutions to help them purchase equipment for defense research and student research training. DoD said Thursday its service research offices received 685 proposals for the fiscal 2017 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program and selected meritorious submissions that tackle science and engineering research to support national defense efforts. Dale […] More

  • NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data Awarded $62M CDC IT Support Contract; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT Data has secured a potential five-year, $62 million contract to provide a range of information technology services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The company said Thursday it will host applications, manage cloud systems, store files, monitor operations and perform data center support for CDC under the contract. The IT services are intended to help […] More

  • CSRA Subsidary's Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidary’s Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation

    A plague vaccine being developed by a CSRA subsidiary has received orphan drug status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for pre-exposure prophlaxis of Yersinia pestis infection. CSRA said Wednesday its DynPort Vaccine Company works with the Defense Department on the development of the recombinant rF1V plague vaccine that will be added to the DoD’s medical countermeasures portfolio […] More

  • Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems

    Rockwell Collins has been chosen to provide integrated flight displays, communications, navigation, surveillance, networking and flight control systems for KC-46A tankers that Boeing will build for the U.S. Air Force. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins said Wednesday its Remote Vision System  comprises two- and three-dimensional vision technologies that will work to aid the KC-46A aircraft’s refueling function. RVS is designed to […] More

  • Navy Extends Sierra Nevada's Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract

    Sierra Nevada has received a one-year, $31 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue to supply and support countermeasure transmitters designed for explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises option year six and extend the ordering period of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AN/PLT-5 electronic jamming systems. Sierra Nevada will produce the systems as […] More

  • CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Nabs Potential $66M Contract From Colorado State to Update Payroll Systems

    CGI has secured a potential 20-year, $66.2 million contract from the Colorado government to update payroll systems across 21 state agencies and departments in support of efforts to overhaul the existing enterprise resource planning system. The company said Wednesday it will offer information technology services to transform manual payroll processes into a unified human resource […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded a $3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force design and build an airborne wind profiling portable radar prototype. QNA said Wednesday the WiPPR unit will be designed to demonstrate wind measurement in near real-time. The Air Force will use the radar to help the service branch’s C-130 and C-17 aircrews drop supplies accurately to […] More

  • 4 Firms Win Navy Cyberspace Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Firms Win Navy Cyberspace Support Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies separate five-year contracts that cover cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration support services. Avanti Technologies, Millennium, Sentar and Vector Planning and Services can vie for task orders to perform technology assessment and development; rapid software development and prototyping; training; security engineering; and cybersecurity risk management services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Avanti won […] More

  • HII Division Lands Chem-Bio Defense Acquisition Technical Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Division Lands Chem-Bio Defense Acquisition Technical Support Contract

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has received a contract to continue to provide acquisition technical support services to the Defense Department’s joint program executive office for chemical and biological defense. HII’s technical solutions division secured four procurement technical support task orders under JPEO-CBD’s Omnibus Program, Engineering and Technical Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, HII said Tuesday. HII Technical […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Partners to Develop Combat Vehicle Prototypes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Partners to Develop Combat Vehicle Prototypes

    The Army Contracting Command has launched a market research effort to identify potential vendors that can help the U.S. Army develop combat vehicle prototypes. According to a notice posted Monday on the FedBizOpps website, the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Detroit Arsenal Automotive Prototype Project aims to design, demonstrate, engineer, fabricate, integrate, schedule and test vehicle technologies into a set […] More

  • Report: India's Navy Eyes $1.5B Procurement of Short-Range Surface-to-Air Missile Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: India’s Navy Eyes $1.5B Procurement of Short-Range Surface-to-Air Missile Systems

    India’s navy has issued a request for information for a program that seeks to purchase approximately $1.5 billion in short-range surface-to-air missile platforms in an effort to replace its Israel-made Barak-1 air defense systems, Defense News reported Wednesday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes the Indian navy plans to release a tender after six months through the Make […] More

  • Leidos to Offer Healthcare IT, Cyber Services via GSA Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Offer Healthcare IT, Cyber Services via GSA Schedule 70

    The General Services Administration has selected Leidos to provide healthcare information technology and cybersecurity services to customer agencies via the company’s position on the IT Schedule 70 governmentwide contract vehicle. Leidos said Wednesday the multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract will run through Dec. 12, 2032, and has no price ceiling limit. Gerry Fasano, chief of business development and strategy at Leidos, said the expanded […] More