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  • CMS Posts Collaborative Web Platform RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CMS Posts Collaborative Web Platform RFI

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants information from vendors that can provide and operate a website to facilitate collaboration between CMS contractors, healthcare providers, beneficiaries and taxpayers. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated CMS seeks a contractor-run website designed with collaboration and communication tools that work to help users find, store, retrieve and share media files. The agency looks […] More

  • Motorola Supplies Brazilian Army, Rio de Janeiro Public Safety Forces with Portable Radios - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Supplies Brazilian Army, Rio de Janeiro Public Safety Forces with Portable Radios

    Motorola Solutions has supplied the Brazilian army and the Rio de Janeiro public safety forces with more than 16,000 units of APX series P25 standard radios and TETRA portable and mobile radios to support the security and safety of citizens and visitors. The radios will support the ICCC of Rio de Janeiro and the Army Operations Center […] More

  • NCI to Offer Big Data & Analytics Services Under 1st Task Order for $2.5B CMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI to Offer Big Data & Analytics Services Under 1st Task Order for $2.5B CMS Contract

    A subsidiary of NCI has received the first task order worth $76.8 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to apply big data and analytics to help detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse among Medicare and Medicaid claims within the Midwestern jurisdiction. The company said July 28 the covered jurisdiction includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. […] More

  • UK Army Vet Peter Wall Joins General Dynamics Board; Phebe Novakovic Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Army Vet Peter Wall Joins General Dynamics Board; Phebe Novakovic Comments

    Peter Wall, a 40-year British army veteran and director of strategic leadership advisory firm Amicus, has been elected to General Dynamics‘ board of directors. He previously served as director of operations at the U.K. defense ministry, commander-in-chief of the land command and army chief of the general staff before he retired from military service in 2014, General Dynamics […] More

  • Paul Stewart Joins ZMicro as Programs Director; Jason Wade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Stewart Joins ZMicro as Programs Director; Jason Wade Comments

    Paul Stewart, an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance industry veteran and former senior executive at ForceX, has joined computing systems firm ZMicro as director of programs. He will oversee the lifecycle management of ZMicro’s programs with the Defense Department, ZMicro said Thursday. “Paul brings a tremendous depth of expertise in ISR and DoD program management,” said Jason Wade, president of […] More

  • Phoenix Nuclear Labs to Provide Neutron Radiography, Interrogation Systems to Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phoenix Nuclear Labs to Provide Neutron Radiography, Interrogation Systems to Army

    The U.S. Army has awarded Phoenix Nuclear Labs multiple contracts worth a total of $3.6 million to create a neutron radiography system that will work to detect defective munitions and explosive threats. PNL said Tuesday it will supply a pilot-production neutron radiography system to the Army that is designed to produce a higher neutron yield while mitigating safety […] More

  • Telos to Provide Cybersecurity Upgrade for USAF Demilitarized Zone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Provide Cybersecurity Upgrade for USAF Demilitarized Zone

    Telos Corporation has received a $26.9 million contract to modify and replace the cybersecurity systems of a U.S. Air Force demilitarized zone through networking equipment updates and security management services. The company said Wednesday it will conduct contract work at Robins Air Force Base, Beale Air Force Base, Langley Air Force Base and Kansas in the U.S. as well as Ramstein Air […] More

  • VA Dept Orders AM General's Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Dept Orders AM General’s Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicles

    AM General‘s Mobility Ventures subsidiary has received an order from the Department of Veteran Affairs for five wheelchair-accessible vehicles through bus distributor Master’s Transportation. Mobility Ventures said Tuesday VA will use the MV-1 vehicles at medical centers in Colorado, Florida and Tennessee. MV-1 was added to Master’s Transportation’s General Services Administration Schedule contract in 2015 and the purchase marks the […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada's ISS Transportation Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build Power System for Sierra Nevada’s ISS Transportation Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corporation has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a contract to provide an electrical power system for the former’s Dream Chaser commercial spacecraft designated by NASA to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday it will design, create, test and install the electrical power system onto Dream Chaser as well as provide power conversion and […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Industry Info on Wide Field Imaging Telescope Data Recorder

    NASA wants industry information on a solid state data recorder to support a conceptual design of the agency’s future wide field imaging observatory platform. A notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps stated the data recorder will become a component of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope‘s payload command and data handling subsystem. The recorder will work to store science data packets […] More

  • Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Parent to Demo Drone Delivery Service at FAA Test Site

    Google‘s parent company Alphabet will test an autonomous delivery service at one of six Federal Aviation Administration-approved unmanned aircraft system test sites in the U.S., Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Alan Levin writes the White House said Tuesday that Alphabet’s Project Wing drone delivery demonstration aims to lay the groundwork for the approval of the use of UAS to safely deliver packages. Dave […] More

  • Lockheed Fires Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Interceptor for White Sands Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Fires Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Interceptor for White Sands Flight Test

    Lockheed Martin has tested its missile interceptor that is designed to engage rocket, artillery and mortar targets during an exercise held Friday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Tuesday it fired the Miniature Hit-to-Kill interceptor as part of the Extended Area Protection and Survivability program run by the U.S. Army‘s Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. This engineering demonstration […] More