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  • Cardno TEC-AECOM Joint Venture Lands $50M Navy Contract
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    Cardno TEC-AECOM Joint Venture Lands $50M Navy Contract

    The U.S Navy has awarded the Cardno TEC–AECOM joint venture a $50 million environmental planning and engineering services contract. The Defense Department said Monday the joint venture will provide construction, renovation, demolition, dredging, base realignment and closure and operational services for ship homeporting and waterfront activities. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Atlantic area […] More

  • CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments

    Fortune magazine has selected CACI International for its annual list of the “most admired companies” around the world. The publication ranked CACI as the seventh-best information technology services provider based on criteria such as global competitiveness, innovation, social responsibility and quality of management, the company said Monday. CACI President and CEO Ken Asbury, a Wash100 inductee, […] More

  • Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments
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    Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments

    Jeff Geppert, formerly an internal research coordinator for health and consumer solutions at Battelle, has been named one of 11 senior research leaders at the nonprofit science and research organization. Geppert will oversee the company’s efforts to maintain the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ inventory of hospital and physician quality measures that work to help hospitals […] More

  • Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments
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    Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has named Carahsoft Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as its 2015 Global Distributor of the Year and Global Alliance Partner of the Year awardees in recognition of their efforts to protect their clients’ network infrastructure from cyber threats. Carahsoft and HPE received their respective awards at FireEye’s Momentum annual partner and sales conference that kicked […] More

  • Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Cargo Ship Leaves ISS After 72-Day Stay; Frank Culbertson Comments
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Cargo Ship Leaves ISS After 72-Day Stay; Frank Culbertson Comments

    An Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft has departed the NASA‘s International Space Station after a 72-day stay there for astronauts to collect cargo and supplies for science experiments on the ISS. Cygnus unloaded 7,700 pounds of cargo for the OA-4 mission under a Commercial Resupply Services contract position Orbital ATK holds with NASA, the company said Monday. The spacecraft launched […] More

  • NIST Seeks 2 New Institutes for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
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    NIST Seeks 2 New Institutes for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a solicitation for proposals on two future institutes that will become part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. Each institute will receive up to $70 million in federal funds over five years through a cooperative agreement and has to meet any advanced manufacturing need that has […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands Air Force Contract for ICBM Hardware Demonstration Support
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands Air Force Contract for ICBM Hardware Demonstration Support

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $3 million contract to perform studies and hardware demonstration in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile platform. The service branch awarded the contract as part of the ICBM Demonstration and Validation Post Boost Program, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Friday. The program seeks to develop new […] More

  • Intel-AT&T Team to Test LTE Network-Linked UAV at Mobile Trade Congress
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    Intel-AT&T Team to Test LTE Network-Linked UAV at Mobile Trade Congress

    Intel and AT&T have partnered to evaluate how an unmanned aircraft vehicle can stream video and transmit flight information and telematics through the Long-Term Evolution wireless communications network. Intel will test the transmission functions of a Yuneec Typhoon H UAV fitted with Intel RealSense technology over AT&T’s core LTE network as part of the Intel Drone Zone, […] More

  • SOSi Signs New Lease for Reston HQ, Plans Expansion to 50K Square Feet
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    SOSi Signs New Lease for Reston HQ, Plans Expansion to 50K Square Feet

    SOS International has signed a new lease on its Reston, Virginia-based headquarters and plans to increase the company’s footprint there from 29,000 to 50,000 square feet under the new deal. The company said Friday its expanded 1881 Campus Commons Drive office has room for about 200 employees and will bring together the 150 SOSi employees currently working […] More

  • Reuters: DigitalGlobe, Saudi Organizations Launch Small Satellite JV
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    Reuters: DigitalGlobe, Saudi Organizations Launch Small Satellite JV

    DigitalGlobe and two organizations in Saudi Arabia have formed a joint venture to build small satellites intended to regularly capture images of different areas around the world, Reuters reported Sunday. DigitalGlobe CEO Jeffrey Tarr said the company would integrate its satellites, ground infrastructure and processing technology into the project in order to facilitate the accuracy of collected […] More

  • MTSI Awarded DoD Strategic Capabilities Office Support Contract
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    MTSI Awarded DoD Strategic Capabilities Office Support Contract

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. landed a $22.6 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide technical engineering services to the Defense Department‘s Strategic Capabilities Office. The department said Friday work will occur in Arlington, Virginia, through Feb. 24, 2021. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter formed SCO in 2012 to help maintain DoD’s munitions, stealth, cyber and space capabilities. […] More

  • Adm. John Richardson, Rep. Scott Peters Tour Huntington Ingalls’ San Diego Ship Repair Facility
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    Adm. John Richardson, Rep. Scott Peters Tour Huntington Ingalls’ San Diego Ship Repair Facility

    Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) on Thursday visited Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ ship maintenance and repair facility in San Diego. The company said Friday Richardson and Peters met with ship repair professionals at HII unit Continental Maritime of San Diego and crew members from the USS Kidd destroyer during their CMSD facility tour. […] More