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  • Army Engineers' Water Resources Institute Seeks Analytics, Navigation Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Engineers’ Water Resources Institute Seeks Analytics, Navigation Support Sources

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a $48 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for analytical and professional navigation support services to the USACE’s Institute for Water Resources. USACE IWR issued a sources sought notice in search of potential industry partners  currently registered on the System for Award Management database, U.S. Federal Contractor Registration said Monday. The multiple-award […] More

  • Microsoft Signs ViON as Azure Govt Cloud Managed Service Provider; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Signs ViON as Azure Govt Cloud Managed Service Provider; Tom Frana Comments

    Microsoft has signed up ViON as the newest managed service provider of the former’s cloud computing system for government agencies. ViON said Tuesday it can offer hybrid cloud platforms along with services intended to help customer agencies monitor and manage information technology systems as a Microsoft Azure Government MSP. Tom Frana, ViON CEO, noted that the company seeks […] More

  • Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service

    Collab9 has secured a contract from the state of Utah to offer the company’s unified communications-as-a-service platform to participating U.S. states under the NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization. The company said Monday its Cisco-powered UCaaS cloud service works to facilitate voice and video calls; provide mobility, customer care applications and E911 functionality; and support integration with Microsoft 365, Skype […] More

  • GE Secures Army Aircraft T700 Engine Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Secures Army Aircraft T700 Engine Support Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded General Electric‘s aviation subsidiary a potential five-year, $45.8 million contract for support work on T700 engines that currently power various multiple aircraft platforms. GE Aviation will perform work under the indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through Sept. 24, 2021, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Okta ID, Mobility Mgmt Tools to GSA, NASA GWAC Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Okta ID, Mobility Mgmt Tools to GSA, NASA GWAC Vehicles

    Carahsoft Technology has added the identity and mobility management offerings of Okta to Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule to help public sector customers deploy new applications in a secure environment. As Okta’s master government aggregator, Carahsoft will also offer the former’s cloud-based products to agencies and channel partners via NASA’s SEWP V contract vehicle, Carahsoft said Tuesday. The partnership aims to […] More

  • Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director

    Luke Tenery, former associate managing director of Kroll’s cybersecurity and investigations practice, has been appointed as senior managing director for the cybersecurity practice at Ankura Consulting Group‘s risk, resilience and geopolitical group. Ankura said Monday Tenery will be based in the company’s Chicago office and brings 15 years of cyber incident investigations and forensics, data privacy and […] More

  • Retired Gen. Jack Keane Named AM General Exec Chairman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Gen. Jack Keane Named AM General Exec Chairman

    Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army and a retired four-star general, has joined AM General as executive chairman of the military and commercial vehicles manufacturer. AM General said Tuesday he will collaborate with President and CEO Andy Hove as well as the company’s parent corporation MacAndrews & Forbes to implement strategic growth initiatives. Hove said that […] More

  • ThreatConnect, Symantec Partner to Advance Threat Intelligence & Management Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThreatConnect, Symantec Partner to Advance Threat Intelligence & Management Platform

    ThreatConnect will install Symantec Cyber Security Services‘ reputation data feeds on the former’s intelligence-driven defense platform in an effort to advance threat intelligence and management functions for users. The ThreatConnect platform will work to provide access to Symantec’s DeepSight Intelligence data feeds, provide insight on threat intelligence data and allow users to operate on the intelligence within […] More

  • Navy Sec. Ray Mabus Meets With LCS Sailors, Shipbuilders at Marinette Shipyard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Sec. Ray Mabus Meets With LCS Sailors, Shipbuilders at Marinette Shipyard

    U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has visited the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin and met with the shipbuilders and sailors of the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship program. Mabus saw the six LCS ships currently in construction under the Lockheed Martin-led team during his tour of the shipyard, the company said Monday. The team has delivered four Freedom-variant LCS to the Navy […] More

  • Deloitte Says Defense Acquisition Program Cost Overruns Hit $468B in 2015; Robin Lineberger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Says Defense Acquisition Program Cost Overruns Hit $468B in 2015; Robin Lineberger Comments

    A Deloitte report says the total cost overrun for initiatives under the major defense acquisition program portfolio rose from $295 billion in 2008 to $468 billion in 2015. The consulting firm said Monday the Defense Department’s MDAP portfolio in 2015 recorded a 48.3 percent growth in cost with nearly 30 months in average schedule delays. The report is […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands $174M NASA Contract to Build Upper Stage Engines for SLS Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands $174M NASA Contract to Build Upper Stage Engines for SLS Rocket

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential eight-year, $174 million contract to develop, test and certify RL10 upper stage engines for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. NASA said Saturday the contract will run through Feb. 29, 2024 and covers the production of 10 RL10C-3 engines and two spare engines in support of the SLS rocket’s second and third space flights […] More

  • Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments

    Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More