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  • Todd McDonell: Inmarsat Aims to Help Address Connectivity Demand in Military Sector
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    Todd McDonell: Inmarsat Aims to Help Address Connectivity Demand in Military Sector

    Todd McDonell, vice president of global government solutions at Inmarsat, has told Talk Satellite in an interview the company uses its L-band and Ka-band satellite platforms to help military customers address connectivity requirements. He noted in the interview that the emergence of the network centric warfare concept has increased a demand for interconnection between systems and people, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “Global Xpress is […] More

  • Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities
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    Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities

    A joint venture of Cardno and Amec Foster Wheeler has landed a five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to evaluate the state of U.S. Marine Corps-operated buildings. The Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV will use the Defense Department‘s BUILDER Sustainment Management System to conduct building condition assessments on USMC facilities worldwide, Cardno said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Construction […] More

  • Horace Blackman: Lockheed to Support VA Health Benefits Enrollment System Modernization
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    Horace Blackman: Lockheed to Support VA Health Benefits Enrollment System Modernization

    Lockheed Martin‘s Systems Made Simple subsidiary has been awarded a 39-month, $33.3 million task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs update and maintain VA’s Enrollment Health Benefits Determination system. The subsidiary will provide technical architecture analysis and design and management services to the EHBD program as well as develop enrollment platforms and VistA electronic health records systems for the department, Lockheed […] More

  • Orbis to Provide Info Systems Support Services to Naval Sea Logistics Center
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    Orbis to Provide Info Systems Support Services to Naval Sea Logistics Center

    Orbis Sibro has received a multimillion-dollar task order from the U.S. Navy to support information systems of the Naval Sea Logistics Center, an echelon V field activity for the Naval Sea Systems Command. The company said Tuesday it will provide in-service logistics, maintenance and supplier quality information technology support services to NAVSEALOGCEN under the task order. […] More

  • CMS Posts Collaborative Web Platform RFI
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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