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  • Woolpert Secures Air Force Geospatial Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert Secures Air Force Geospatial Services Contract

    Woolpert has secured a one-year, $4.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to help the service branch manage its geospatial information library across a number of installations within five USAF commands. The company said Friday it will provide geospatial services to the Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, Air Force District of Washington, Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force […] More

  • Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS

    Northrop Grumman has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center and Air Combat Command to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payload adapter for the Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The parties built the IPA technology under a cooperative research-and-development agreement as part of efforts to link existing and future data-gathering sensors with the RQ-4 drone’s airframe system, the […] More

  • Qualtrics Signs Agreement to Provide Federal Agencies Access to Insight Platform; Ryan Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics Signs Agreement to Provide Federal Agencies Access to Insight Platform; Ryan Smith Comments

    Qualtrics has reached an agreement with the General Services Administration to provide the company’s insight platform to federal customers in a move to help government agencies gain access to customer and employee insights. Qualtrics said Friday it has been added to the roster of cloud service providers listed on DigitalGov.gov as part of the arrangement and federal agencies […] More

  • PSI to Continue Expeditionary Medical Support for US Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PSI to Continue Expeditionary Medical Support for US Air Force

    Planned Systems International has received a potential three-year task order to continue providing consultation, advisory, analytical and assistance services for the U.S. Air Force‘s expeditionary medical support system modernization effort. PSI will also support home station medical response, casualty prevention and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense programs of the Air Force Medical Service organization, the company said Friday. The […] More

  • Unisys Achieves AWS Govt Competency Status for Cloud Platform Delivery; PV Puvvada Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Achieves AWS Govt Competency Status for Cloud Platform Delivery; PV Puvvada Comments

    Unisys has achieved Amazon Web Services’ Government Competency designation in recognition of the former company’s efforts to deliver cloud-based platforms to federal, local and state government agencies through AWS. Unisys said Monday the designation is part of the AWS Competency Program designed to recognize corporate partners that have showed technical proficiency in the deployment of […] More

  • State Dept Explores Industry Sources of EHR System Implementation Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Explores Industry Sources of EHR System Implementation Support

    The State Department is requesting information on project management services providers that can help the agency deploy an ambulatory electronic medical records system for the healthcare units of U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday states that the department’s Office of Medical Services seeks support on EHR project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, training, implementation and go-live and close-out activities. MED […] More

  • CorasCloud to Supply Marines With Portfolio Mgmt Platform; Jim Benson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CorasCloud to Supply Marines With Portfolio Mgmt Platform; Jim Benson Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has tasked CorasCloud to deliver its customizable project and portfolio management system to plan, manage and execute the service branch’s tasks and support its initiatives. CorasCloud said Monday it will provide its CorasManage system to the Program Manager Information Systems and Infrastructure – Product Manager Total Force Information Systems along with the Product Managers’ Tool Kit deployed on […] More

  • Fluor, Partners Reach Financial Agreement on $6B Maryland Light Rail Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor, Partners Reach Financial Agreement on $6B Maryland Light Rail Project

    A team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line has achieved financial close on Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line Light Rail project. The Fluor-led Purple Line Transit Partners will finance, design, build, operate and maintain the project for Maryland’s transportation department and transit administration through a 36-year period, Fluor said Monday. The company added the team received financing […] More

  • Bob Kleinhample: SAIC, VMware Partner on Cloud-Based Simulation Offering for Gov't Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Kleinhample: SAIC, VMware Partner on Cloud-Based Simulation Offering for Gov’t Clients

    Science Applications International Corp. has selected VMware to provide cloud-based platforms for SAIC’s simulation training program as part of an effort to meet the technical requirements of government customers. Bob Kleinhample, vice president of simulation and training systems at SAIC, wrote in a blog article published Monday that SAIC developed a simulation-as-a-service offering with the use of VMware’s […] More

  • Mellanox, DOE Lab to Collaborate on Exascale Computing Tech Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mellanox, DOE Lab to Collaborate on Exascale Computing Tech Design

    Mellanox Technologies and the Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered into a partnership agreement to design and architect exascale computing technologies. PNNL and Mellanox seek to explore advanced functions of the company’s Interconnect platform as well as develop a new in-network computing architecture,  Mellanox said Monday. The partnership will also support efforts of Mellanox and DOE’s Center for Advance Technology Evaluation to […] More

  • Xerox Lands Public Sector Cooperative Contract for Managed Business Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox Lands Public Sector Cooperative Contract for Managed Business Services

    Xerox will provide operational and managed business platforms and services to government agencies and educational institutions under a contract awarded through cooperative purchasing organization National IPA/TCPN. The Region 4 Education Service Center awarded the national cooperative contract to Xerox’s public sector solutions business after a competitive solicitation process, the company said Monday. The contract covers customer service, […] More

  • Mitre Nabs 8th Spot in 2016 Washington Post 'Top Workplaces' List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Nabs 8th Spot in 2016 Washington Post ‘Top Workplaces’ List

    The Washington Post has placed Mitre on the eighth spot of the 2016 edition of the publication’s annual Top Workplaces list to represent the nonprofit organization’s second consecutive year of selection. Mitre said Monday survey firm WorkplaceDynamics conducted the Post’s 2016 Top Workplaces survey that measured individuals’ responses to statements on factors in employee happiness such as company direction, execution, employee connection, workload and […] More