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  • Report: Boeing Vet Richard Baniak to Join University of Missouri-St. Louis as CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Vet Richard Baniak to Join University of Missouri-St. Louis as CFO

    Richard Baniak, chief financial officer of the air and space unit at Boeing‘s Phantom Works business, has been named vice chancellor for administration and CFO at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Friday. His appointment takes effect May 1 and he will succeed the retiring James Krueger, according to the report by Diana Barr. […] More

  • Inmarsat Highlights Global Xpress for Satellite 2016; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Highlights Global Xpress for Satellite 2016; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce leads four other panel members from the company who will each participate in a separate talks throughout the four-day Satellite 2016 conference and exhibition this week in Maryland. The company will highlight latest tech and services such as the Global Xpress worldwide constellation that was completed in December designed to provide global […] More

  • World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments

    World Wide Technology has received a Cisco Partner Summit Global Award in recognition of the former company’s business practices and role it plays in the technology services industry. The company received the 2016 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year award at Cisco’s annual partner conference in California, WWT said Friday. “We are honored to receive these awards and continue to deepen […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report has predicted the global small drones market to hit $10.04 billion in value by 2020 as demand for commercial application increases. Research and Markets said Wednesday defense and commercial sector operations and tasks that use small drones increase over the past 10 years following the advancements in payloads technology. […] More

  • Harris CapRock Unveils Cybersecurity System for Offshore, Oil & Gas IT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris CapRock Unveils Cybersecurity System for Offshore, Oil & Gas IT

    Harris CapRock Communications has introduced a cybersecurity system designed for oil and gas information technology infrastructures as well as maritime and cruise customers. “Security breaches and emerging threats to corporate networks are impacting the oil and gas market with greater cost and frequency as offshore operations rely more heavily on always-on communications networks,” said Harris CapRock […] More

  • Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal

    Cobham’s satellite communications business has teamed up with four companies to draft the Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate to facilitate the use of the Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system onboard Shenzhen Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 fleet The Cobham-built Aviator 300 terminal has an intermediate gain antenna and works to support broadband connectivity with data transmission of up to 332 […] More

  • Liquidity Services Wins DLA Bid for US Military Scrap Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liquidity Services Wins DLA Bid for US Military Scrap Assets

    Liquidity Services has placed the winning bid in a U.S. Defense Logistics Agency auction event held Wednesday in search of a contractor to manage, purchase and sell scrap assets for the Defense Department. The DLA scrap contract contains a base period of three-years and two one-year options to extend work, Liquidity Services said Thursday. Scrap assets include property that has […] More

  • Decisive Analytics, Progeny Land ISR Data Processing Tech Contracts With Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Decisive Analytics, Progeny Land ISR Data Processing Tech Contracts With Navy

    Progeny Systems and Decisive Analytics have received separate contracts from the Office of Naval Research to help build tools for synchronization of the U.S. Navy‘s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes ONR awarded $2.3 million to Decisive Analytics and $2.1 million to Progeny under the Exchange of Actionable Information at the […] More

  • Nutanix to House East Coast & Federal Operations in Tysons Corner VA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nutanix to House East Coast & Federal Operations in Tysons Corner VA

    San Jose, Calif.-based storage and virtualization company Nutanix will formally open a new facility in Tysons Corner, Virginia on Tuesday to serve as the main hub for federal government and commercial business operations on the East Coast. Dheeraj Pandey, chairman and CEO of Nutanix, said in a release issued Wednesday that the company aims to have increased focus and presence in the Washington, D.C. […] More

  • ICF Receives $35M CDC Award for HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Receives $35M CDC Award for HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Support

    ICF International has received a five-year, $34.6 million task order to perform analytic, financial and communications services for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS prevention program. The company will assist in CDC’s work to gather, analyze and report HIV prevention data, conduct research and literature reviews as well as provide program and grants […] More

  • S-RAM Dynamics to Build CO2 Refrigeration System Under Army Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    S-RAM Dynamics to Build CO2 Refrigeration System Under Army Contract

    S-RAM Dynamics has landed a $1 million contract to develop and test a mobile carbon dioxide refrigeration system prototype for the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center. The company said Friday the Small Business Independent Research phase 2 contract looks to reduce energy and fuel consumption of the Army’s mobile refrigeration systems through the use of […] More