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  • Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans' Training Institute Under DOL Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans’ Training Institute Under DOL Contract

    The Labor Department has awarded Management Concepts a contract for classroom, virtual and online training support services to the National Veterans’ Training Institute. Management Concepts said Tuesday it will provide professional training and administrative support to workforce development professionals and supervisors of the State Workforce Agency under the NVTI program. The company will also train federal employees who represent the departments of Veterans Affairs, Justice, […] More

  • CSRA Holds Hacking Competition for Employees in Facet of 'Customer Zero' Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Holds Hacking Competition for Employees in Facet of ‘Customer Zero’ Strategy

    CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) kicked off its first internal “Hack-A-Thon” competition Wednesday morning at its Falls Church, Va. headquarters for employees as part of the company’s push to gain status as “Customer Zero” for the federal government regarding technology adoption and integration. That distinction as Customer Zero — or “Client Zero” — would put forth CSRA as a primary resource […] More

  • Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool

    Qualtrics has been selected to provide a new customer insights system to the General Services Administration as part of GSA’s efforts to measure and manage the quality of its services. GSA will implement the enterprise-grade platform to collect, analyze and distribute customer feedback in real time through web-based, mobile-responsive collection tools, Qualtrics said Thursday. The system will […] More

  • GSA Wants Industry Input on EIS Transition of Regional Telecom Service Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Wants Industry Input on EIS Transition of Regional Telecom Service Customers

    The General Services Administration is asking for comments from industry on GSA’s plans to transition customer agencies from expiring regional telecommunications service contracts to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement vehicle. GSA also seeks feedback on a proposed acquisition strategy wherein the agency will conduct fair opportunities, issue task orders and manage regional telecom services on behalf of customers, according to a […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Continues Mentorship of Accurate Machine and Tool Under DoD Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Continues Mentorship of Accurate Machine and Tool Under DoD Program

    Lockheed Martin continues to work with Accurate Machine and Tool in efforts to boost the latter’s capacity to serve more potential customers as well as create opportunities for government work as part of the Defense Department‘s Mentor-Protege Program. Lockheed said Wednesday it secured a three-year deal with the Missile Defense Agency to help update AMT’s manufacturing and management processes and provide […] More

  • IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech

    IBM‘s Watson Health unit and the Food and Drug Administration have entered into a two-year research agreement to study the use of blockchain technology to facilitate a secure exchange of health data. The company said Wednesday the partnership will initially focus on oncology-related information and look into the exchange of owner-mediated data from sources such as electronic medical records, clinical […] More

  • Accenture White Paper Examines Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Care Delivery, Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture White Paper Examines Use of Patient-Generated Health Data in Care Delivery, Research

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology seeks public comments on Accenture‘s draft white paper that explores the capture, use and exchange of patient-generated health data. Accenture said Wednesday its federal services subsidiary created the report as part of a two-year contract with ONC to determine opportunities and challenges related to the capture of PGHD by […] More

  • BAE-Built 3D Radar Completes Sea Trials Aboard UK Type 23 Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Built 3D Radar Completes Sea Trials Aboard UK Type 23 Frigates

    A BAE Systems-built radar system has completed three years of sea-based trials on the U.K. navy’s Type 23 frigates and has been integrated onto a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, landing platform dock assault ship and landing platform helicopter assault ship. BAE said Wednesday it has also installed the company’s Artisan 3D radar at the U.K. ministry of defense’s land-based test site in Portsmouth, […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Put Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile Through 2 Flight Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Put Tomahawk Block IV Cruise Missile Through 2 Flight Tests

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have wrapped up two flight tests of the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile at the Naval Air Systems Command’s sea test range off the coast of Southern California in order to demonstrate how service personnel can plan missions against time-sensitive enemy targets. The service branch launched a pair of Tomahawk missiles with warheads from […] More

  • GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GAMA-1 Holds Spot on Potential $2.5B NOAA IT Contract Vehicle

    GAMA-1 Technologies has been awarded a prime position on a potential a $2.5 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers information technology support services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s strategic IT planning and management effort. GAMA-1 said Tuesday task orders under the NOAALink Small Business contract are  categorized into customer care, infrastructure management, business management, information security and risk management. […] More

  • Rockwell Collins, 4 Partners Form Industry Team to Advance Maritime Simulation Tools Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, 4 Partners Form Industry Team to Advance Maritime Simulation Tools Devt

    Rockwell Collins has collaborated with four other companies to establish an industry team that seeks to provide simulation and training platforms to maritime organizations. The company said Tuesday it partnered with Appri Custom Technology, Global Simulation, Knud E Hansen A/S and Saint James Marine to form the Maritime Advanced Simulation Team. MAST will work to provide vessel […] More

  • Sevatec Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Tanusree McCabe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Joins AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Tanusree McCabe Comments

    Amazon Web Services has added Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services provider Sevatec to AWS’ Public Sector Partner Program in the government category as part of an extended partnership between the two companies. Sevatec said Monday it seeks to offer cloud architecture, development and migration services to federal government customers through the program. The AWS Public Sector Partner Program recognizes companies that work to […] More