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  • MBDA to Provide Corvette Ships, Logistics Support to Qatar Naval Force; Antonio Perfetti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Provide Corvette Ships, Logistics Support to Qatar Naval Force; Antonio Perfetti Comments

    MBDA’s Italian subsidiary will supply Qatar’s naval units with four corvette ships, two patrol vessels and a landing platform dock under a contract with the country’s naval force. MBDA said Thursday the contract is part of an agreement that Italian defense minister Roberta Pinotti and Qatar’s defense chief Khalid Bin Muhammad Al-Attiyah signed in Rome Thursday. […] More

  • PARC, DZYNE Technologies Land Contracts Under DARPA’s Vanishing Air Delivery R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PARC, DZYNE Technologies Land Contracts Under DARPA’s Vanishing Air Delivery R&D Program

    Xerox’s PARC subsidiary and DZYNE Technologies have been awarded separate contracts under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at developing a “vanishing” air delivery platform. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted June 10 DZYNE Technologies will receive $2.9 million under the initial phase of the Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems program and $3.2 million under […] More

  • Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9 million Small Business Innovation Research phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Nimbis Services for continued research and development services on a cloud-based Defense Department silicon integrated circuit design environment. DoD said Thursday Air Force Research Laboratory will obligate $749,468 from fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds for the first cost-plus-fixed-fee task order in the sole-source IDIQ […] More

  • GSA Taps LexisNexis Special Services for ID Intelligence Data, Tech & Analytics Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Taps LexisNexis Special Services for ID Intelligence Data, Tech & Analytics Strategies

    LexisNexis Special Services Inc. has landed a position in a multiple-award General Services Administration Schedule contract for identity intelligence data, technology and analytics strategies to help government agencies address fraud, waste and abuse risks. LNSSI said Wednesday the five-year GSA Financial and Business Solutions Schedule 520 contract has three additional five-year options and covers auditing, financial management and financial asset, business […] More

  • Lockheed Artillery Rocket Launcher Production Resumes; Frank St. John Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Artillery Rocket Launcher Production Resumes; Frank St. John Comments

    Lockheed Martin has restored its mobile artillery rocket launcher to the production lines along with the system’s tactical missile for the United Arab Emirates, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Frank St. John, Lockheed’s tactical missiles and combat maneuver systems vice president, said at the Eurosatory land warfare conference that the company reopened the Highly-Mobile Artillery […] More

  • Defense Security Service Recognizes ASRC Federal Subsidiary with Achievement Award; Mark Gray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Security Service Recognizes ASRC Federal Subsidiary with Achievement Award; Mark Gray Comments

    The Defense Security Service has bestowed the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award to ASRC Federal‘s Primus Solutions subsidiary. ASRC Federal said Thursday DSS gives the Cogswell Award to industry contractors that have implemented and maintained a security program that complies with and exceeds National Industrial Security Program requirements. Mark Gray, ASRC Federal president and CEO, said the […] More

  • NSGIC Names Molly Schar Executive Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSGIC Names Molly Schar Executive Director

    Molly Schar, a nonprofit sector veteran, has been appointed as the first executive director of the National States Geographic Information Council. Her appointment is effective June 20 and she will support the council’s efforts to promote geospatial coordination among U.S. states and drive national geospatial policy initiatives, NSGIC said Wednesday. Schar has helped multiple nonprofit organizations to expand […] More

  • DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT to Feature Cloud Consulting Offerings at AWS Public Sector Summit

    DLT Solutions will feature its Amazon Web Services offerings and cloud consulting services during the AWS Public Sector Summit from June 20 to 21 in Washington D.C.’s Washington Marriott Wardman Park. The public sector technology provider will showcase how it works to help government clients determine their Cloud Readiness Factor and how its managed services offering supports the AWS platform, DLT said Thursday. […] More

  • Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, ShoreTel Join CompTIA's State, Local Govt & Education Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, ShoreTel Join CompTIA’s State, Local Govt & Education Council

    The Computing Technology Industry Association has added cloud communications company ShoreTel and government contracts law firm Rogers Joseph O’Donnell to CompTIA’s State and Local Government and Education Council. The council plays a key role in CompTIA’s public sector practice and comprises executives from multiple technology firms and other organizations focused on the state and local government and educational markets, the […] More

  • Chemring Group Names Jim Batina as Chemring Ordnance Business Development Vice President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring Group Names Jim Batina as Chemring Ordnance Business Development Vice President

    Jim Batina has been appointed by the Chemring Group as business development vice president for its Chemring Ordnance subsidiary and will handle the business development efforts of that unit and Chemring Military Products. Batina started at COR in 2012 under its business development group and has since worked in the areas of defense business capture, manufacturing and research and development, COR […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts the unified communication as a service market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent beginning in 2016 through 2022. The report indicates that telecommunications, information technology and retail applications currently dominate the market and that banking, financial services and insurance and logistics will drive the […] More