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  • Navy Taps Capstone for Operational Contracting Support Services; John McNally Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Capstone for Operational Contracting Support Services; John McNally Comments

    Capstone has received a competitive task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command to provide operational contracting support services the Joint Staff Director of Logistics. The company said Thursday this award made under NAVSUP’s Joint Force Development Support Services vehicle will cover integration of OCS in joint training and lessons, development and validation of systems and OCS development through operationalized concepts. Joint […] More

  • Report: Oracle to End Use of GSA’s IT Schedule 70 Contract Vehicle, Third-Party Software Resellers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Oracle to End Use of GSA’s IT Schedule 70 Contract Vehicle, Third-Party Software Resellers

    Oracle will no longer use the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 acquisition vehicle and third-party resellers to directly sell its software platforms to government agencies, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Oracle’s decision seeks to reduce litigation risks associated with the False Claims Act as well as address concerns over compliance with the Transactional Data Reporting rule […] More

  • Irving Burton Associates to Continue Support for Army Health Informatics, Telemedicine Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Burton Associates to Continue Support for Army Health Informatics, Telemedicine Programs

    Irving Burton Associates has received a five-year, $10 million contract to provide research, scientific, management and technical services to the Joint Program Committee-1 at the U.S. Army‘s Medical Research and Material Command. IBA said the contract covers support for JPC-1 in the areas of health information technology, informatics, medical modeling and simulation, systems engineering, logistics, communications and program management. Karthik Srinivasan, […] More

  • LinQuest Awarded Air Force Satellite Test and Engineering Services Contract; Greg Young, Leon Biederman Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LinQuest Awarded Air Force Satellite Test and Engineering Services Contract; Greg Young, Leon Biederman Comment

    LinQuest Corp. has been selected for a recompete contract to carry out engineering and operational services on research and development satellites for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. LinQuest will support the center’s pre-launch, launch and early orbit, mission planning, on-orbit operations and anomaly resolution operations at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, LinQuest said Thursday. […] More

  • NASA Posts Call for Asteroid Redirect Mission Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Posts Call for Asteroid Redirect Mission Partnerships

    NASA has released a broad agency announcement on an umbrella for partnerships to support the Asteroid Redirect Mission and work to boost technologies, capacities and spaceflight experience for continued human exploration. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday says the space agency wants subsequent awards from the BAA to foster partnerships between U.S. and international partners for commercial, scientific, exploration technology and planetary defense ARM […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils Initial F-35A for Japan Air Self Defense Force; Marillyn Hewson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils Initial F-35A for Japan Air Self Defense Force; Marillyn Hewson Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Japan have marked the delivery of the country’s first F-35A aircraft in a ceremony held Friday to commemorate the national defense and security alliance between Japan and the U.S. More than 400 guests from the government, military and defense industry sectors in both countries attended the F-35A rollout ceremony, Lockheed Martin said Friday. “As the security environment surrounding Japan has become increasingly […] More

  • DLA Taps Infinium for Dysprosium Metal Supply Contract; Steve Derezinski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps Infinium for Dysprosium Metal Supply Contract; Steve Derezinski Comments

    Natick, Massachusetts-based metals production firm Infinium has secured a contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the National Defense Stockpile with dysprosium-iron metal. DLA awarded the contract through a competitive acquisition process and in compliance with the provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014, Infinium said Wednesday. Infinium CEO Steve Derezinski […] More

  • Patriot Group International to Assist Northcom With Aerial ISR Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Group International to Assist Northcom With Aerial ISR Platforms

    Patriot Group International has secured potential five-year, $26.5 million contract to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aerial detection and monitoring operations of the U.S. Northern Command. The company said Tuesday it will provide manned ISR aircraft platforms to Northcom as well as perform flight operations, maintenance, contractor logistics support and intelligence analysis at various domestic and international locations. “Since 2009, PGI […] More

  • USAF to Hold Open Architecture Forum for Govt Personnel, Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF to Hold Open Architecture Forum for Govt Personnel, Contractors

    The U.S. Air Force plans to host a two-day forum in November to inform government and contractor personnel about the potential applications of open architecture in procurement efforts. The Open Mission Systems/UAS Command and Control Initiative Industry Days will take place at the Hope Hotel in Dayton, Ohio on Nov. 15 and 16, according to a notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps […] More

  • Chenega to Support Defense Health Agency's Med-COI Enclave Transition Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chenega to Support Defense Health Agency’s Med-COI Enclave Transition Effort

    Chenega has been awarded a $9 million contract by the Defense Health Agency to help DHA transition service local area network assets to the Medical Community of Interest enclave. The Alaska native village corporation’s healthcare services business will work to collect data, conduct asset inventory, coordinate with onsite and remote medical treatment facilities under the firm-fixed contract, the […] More

  • LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LJT Secures NASA Contract Extension for Launch Range Operations Support

    LJT & Associates has received a $54 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to continue to help NASA manage the space agency’s launch facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. NASA said Saturday that JLT will extend the company’s operations support at Wallops Flight Facility from Oct. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018 under the “bridge” contract. Work covers radar, telemetry, logistics, tracking and communication services as well […] More

  • DynCorp Receives ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Certification; John Bennett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Receives ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Certification; John Bennett Comments

    DynCorp International has achieved an ISO 9001:2015 certification from Perry Johnson Registrar for the company’s performance in the quality management systems category. ISO 9001:2015 comprises certifications for private security company management systems, environmental management, safety management and quality management for aviation, space and defense organizations, DynCorp said Friday. John Bennett, senior director of performance excellence […] More