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  • Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments
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    Concurrent Technologies, Water Energy Technologies Jointly Develop Green Laundry System; Jeff Grabarek Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Water Energy Technologies have jointly developed a laundry system designed to help reduce water consumption for commercial laundry operations. The treatment system processes and recycles 90 percent of grey water from laundry operations through an integrated ozone technology and water recycling system, CTC said Thursday. “We look forward to combining the […] More

  • IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation
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    IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation

    A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

  • ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force
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    ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force

    ICL‘s advanced additives business unit has landed a $6.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 418,000 gallons of the company’s firefighting foam for firefighting vehicles and fire station foam stocks. The company said Wednesday it has started delivery of its Phos-Chek firefighting foam in August and will continue over a 10-week period. ICL added the Air […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Info on Simulation Platform Development to Validate Social Science Research Methods
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    DARPA Seeks Info on Simulation Platform Development to Validate Social Science Research Methods

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on ideas and approaches that could help develop interactive simulation platforms that will work to validate social science research methods. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated DARPA eyes simulations or “forensic social science supercolliders” that could help evaluate social science research methods for using “strong inference” to identify factors that lead to particular human behaviors and […] More

  • Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients
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    Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients

    Inmarsat and its Global Xpress partners have demonstrated a satellite communications-as-service platform in multiple aeronautical scenarios with U.S. government end users. The company said Monday its GX network worked to provide wideband connectivity for video and data transfers through Honeywell-built JetWave satcom terminals during airborne and ground demonstrations carried out within the contiguous U.S. and outside the continental U.S. GX is designed […] More

  • CSRA Extends Support for Joint Integrated Air & Missile Defense Org Under $53M Recompete Contract
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    CSRA Extends Support for Joint Integrated Air & Missile Defense Org Under $53M Recompete Contract

    CSRA has won a five-year, $53 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance services to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization. The company said Monday it will continue to perform analysis, assessments, technology demonstrations, wargames and exercises meant to help the agency shape concepts, requirements and operational architectures under the recompete contract. “The Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense’s challenge […] More

  • Jeremy Burton: Dell Technologies Aims to Help Clients Realize Digital Transformation Goals
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    Jeremy Burton: Dell Technologies Aims to Help Clients Realize Digital Transformation Goals

    Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

  • Onvia Report Highlights Growing Role of Cybersecurity in Business-to-Govt Marketplace
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    Onvia Report Highlights Growing Role of Cybersecurity in Business-to-Govt Marketplace

    Onvia has released a new report that examines the increasing role of cybersecurity in federal, state and local government procurement efforts and provides insight into various  cyber market opportunities for contractors. The business intelligence firm said Thursday it found that the impacts of cybersecurity on political priorities, funding requests and anti-threat programs have led to new regulations that influence contract language and requirements. “In […] More

  • CrowdOptic, SOFWERX Partner to Develop Target-Locating Mobile App for USSOCOM
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    CrowdOptic, SOFWERX Partner to Develop Target-Locating Mobile App for USSOCOM

    CrowdOptic has entered into an alliance with SOFWERX to deploy a mobile application that will work to help U.S. Special Operations Command field operatives relay data on specified targets to central command. The app will utilize CrowdOptic’s focal clustering technology and proprietary algorithms to deliver live-streams of targets and their GPS location, CrowdOptic said Thursday. “SOF partner forces typically rely on personal cell […] More

  • Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support
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    Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support

    A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

  • Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers
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    Conrad Shipyard to Construct Welded Steel Barge for Army Corps of Engineers

    Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More

  • Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers
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    Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More