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  • GSA Federal Acquisition Service Issues RFI on Cybersecurity Services for Gov't Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Federal Acquisition Service Issues RFI on Cybersecurity Services for Gov’t Agencies

    The General Services Administration is requesting information on existing cybersecurity services in the market that could meet the needs of government agencies. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service office of integrated technology services sought feedback from stakeholders on cybersecurity products and services that could address threats that government and industry currently face. The agency seeks to […] More

  • Comtech Gets Multiple Orders for DoD Comms Services; Stanton Sloane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Multiple Orders for DoD Comms Services; Stanton Sloane Comments

    Comtech Telecommunications has collected $14.3 million in orders from the Defense Department during the third quarter of its fiscal year 2016 for communications services by the company’s government solutions unit. The company will use the funds to provide training services, ground satellite terminal field support and tactical communications systems that work to provide multimedia communications functions, Comtech said Monday. $8.4 […] More

  • DocPoint Solutions Adds eSignLive Services to GSA Schedule; Scott Swidersky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DocPoint Solutions Adds eSignLive Services to GSA Schedule; Scott Swidersky Comments

    DocPoint Solutions has moved to incorporate the eSignLive electronic signature service into its Microsoft SharePoint offering as part of an effort to help customers transition to digital processes. DocPoint has added eSignLive to its General Services Administration Schedule 70 offerings and will offer the e-signature service to customers in Canada, Europe and Australia under the partnership, DocPoint […] More

  • OPM Seeks Automated Search Tool Sources for FIS Public Electronic Data Pilot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OPM Seeks Automated Search Tool Sources for FIS Public Electronic Data Pilot Program

    The Office of Personnel Management has released a request for information on potential industry sources of tools and services in support of a pilot program that seeks to integrate searches of publicly available information online with background investigations. OPM said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday that the RFI is part of the federal investigative […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Announces Leadership Moves Within Ingalls Shipbuilding Arm; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Announces Leadership Moves Within Ingalls Shipbuilding Arm; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries will make a series of leadership moves within its Ingalls Shipbuilding division following the planned retirement of Richard Schenk from his role as vice president of program management. HII said Friday Kari Wilkinson will assume the role of Ingalls’ VP for program management on May 23 as the successor to Schenk, who will retire on July 1 after […] More

  • Jonathan Chadwick Joins Cognizant Technology Board; Francisco D'Souza Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jonathan Chadwick Joins Cognizant Technology Board; Francisco D’Souza Comments

    Jonathan Chadwick – formerly executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at VMware — has joined the board of directors of Cognizant Technology. Chadwick will also serve on Cognizant’s audit committee and as a board member until the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting later this year, Cognizant said Tuesday. “Jonathan brings a wide range of expertise as […] More

  • Former Savanture CEO Doug Howard Joins RSA as VP of Global Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Savanture CEO Doug Howard Joins RSA as VP of Global Services

    EMC Corp.‘s security division has appointed Dough Howard as its new vice president of global services. Howard joins RSA and brings his sales, service and executive management experience and will work to assist the company in its mission to gain exposure in the security industry, the company said Monday. Amit Yoran, RSA president, said that the company has […] More

  • DARPA Unveils Unmanned Spaceplane Program's 2nd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Unveils Unmanned Spaceplane Program’s 2nd Phase

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and its industry partners will transition into the second phase of a program to build a reusable unmanned spaceplane that can carry satellites into space. DARPA said Thursday it will hold a proposers day April 29 in Arlington, Virginia for phase two of Experimental Spaceplane-1, a program to develop a spaceplane that can carry payloads […] More

  • L-3 Division Lands F-16 Training System Support Contract With Poland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Division Lands F-16 Training System Support Contract With Poland

    An L-3 Communications division has received a contract from Poland’s ministry of national defense and support directorate to provide maintenance and technical services in support of updates on the Polish air force’s F-16 Aircrew Training System. L-3 Link Simulation & Training will also provide repair parts and spares for all training devices under the F-16 ATS program […] More

  • Lockheed, NASA Complete Test on Webb Telescope Infrared Camera - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, NASA Complete Test on Webb Telescope Infrared Camera

    A Lockheed Martin optical instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope has completed tests at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said Friday it built the Near Infrared Camera for the space agency and the University of Arizona. The instrument serves as the Webb telescope’s primary science instrument and mirror-alignment sensor, Lockheed added. “[The] alignment of the primary mirror segments depends on […] More

  • SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Completes 1st Ocean Landing Following Spacecraft Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Completes 1st Ocean Landing Following Spacecraft Launch

    A SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket completed a take-off and vertical landing operation on a drone ship at sea Friday after the rocket launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to transport 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station, Space.com reported Friday. Calla Cofield writes Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and […] More

  • Kryptowire's Mobile Security Tech Added to GSA IT Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kryptowire’s Mobile Security Tech Added to GSA IT Schedule

    Kryptowire has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 contracting vehicle to offer a tool the company designed to help agencies secure third-party applications in federally approved mobile devices. The company built its technology as part of a cybersecurity research and development program run by the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate, DHS said Friday. DHS S&T […] More