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  • Lockheed Lands $32M Engineering Services Contract for Navy, US & Int’l Customers
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    Lockheed Lands $32M Engineering Services Contract for Navy, US & Int’l Customers

    Lockheed Martin will provide engineering services for the P-3 Fatigue Life Management Program under a five-year, $32.3 million contract with the U.S. Navy in support of several U.S. agencies and international governments. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract combines domestic and foreign military sale orders from the Navy, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and […] More

  • Jacobs Lands Airside Engineering Support Contract with Australia’s Melbourne Airport
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    Jacobs Lands Airside Engineering Support Contract with Australia’s Melbourne Airport

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Melbourne Airport to provide engineering support services for an airside project. Jacobs said Tuesday the contract covers master grading, civil infrastructure, drainage design and earthworks services for the Taxiway Zulu and Terminal 2 Aprons Project. The project calls for the development of a new apron […] More

  • N2grate Co-Founder Steve Halligan: Company Focused on Civilian Sector Growth
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    N2grate Co-Founder Steve Halligan: Company Focused on Civilian Sector Growth

    N2grate, a cloud-based server hosting firm founded in 2010, is ranked No. 1 on Washington Technology’s 2015 Fast 50 list of companies that have seen accelerated growth over the past year, the publication reported Tuesday. Mark Hoover writes n2grate generated revenues of $28.5 million in fiscal 2014 at a compound annual growth rate of 292.57 percent. Steve […] More

  • CTC’s Melissa Klingenberg Receives NASF Scientific Achievement Award
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    CTC’s Melissa Klingenberg Receives NASF Scientific Achievement Award

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. Principal Adviser Engineer Melissa Klingenberg has received the National Association for Surface Finishing’s scientific achievement award for 2015. CTC said Wednesday Rob Mason, CTC’s principal materials and process scientist and NACE certified corrosion technologist, nominated Klingenberg for the award. Klingenberg is a 20-year veteran in the field of inorganic finishing operations with focus on research […] More

  • FBI Vet Zalmai Azmi Joins IMTAS as President, COO; Ajay Bhatia Comments
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    FBI Vet Zalmai Azmi Joins IMTAS as President, COO; Ajay Bhatia Comments

    Zalmai Azmi, formerly CIO at FBI, has joined management consulting firm IMTAS as president and chief operating officer. “He has exceptional experience in law enforcement, security and intelligence and has an excellent background and senior level expertise in both the government and private sectors,” Ajay Bhatia, CEO and chairman of the board at IMTAS, said July […] More

  • CGI-Intrasoft Team Lands $215M European Parliament IT System Services Contract
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    CGI-Intrasoft Team Lands $215M European Parliament IT System Services Contract

    A consortium of CGI and Intrasoft International has secured a potential five-year, $215 million contract to develop, implement and maintain information systems for the European Parliament. CGI said Tuesday the framework agreement awarded by the parliament’s Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support has a base term of two years and three option years. ITEC works to provide […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds PernixData Software Offering to GSA Schedule; Michael Shrader Comments
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    Carahsoft Adds PernixData Software Offering to GSA Schedule; Michael Shrader Comments

    Carahsoft Technology will offer PernixData’s FVP software platform to public sector agencies through a General Services Administration schedule in a move to help federal customers fulfill storage requirements. Carahsoft will serve as PernixData’s distributor and master government aggregator across state and local education and federal government customers, PernixData said Tuesday. Agencies will have access to the PernixData product […] More

  • Tech Companies Recommend Strategies for Federal Network Security
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    Tech Companies Recommend Strategies for Federal Network Security

    A task force formed by the Information Technology Industry Council‘s IT Alliance for Public Sector division has recommended multiple approaches for the U.S. government to bolster the federal cyber posture and ward off potential threats. ITAPS on Thursday sent the recommendations to Beth Cobert, acting director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal CIO […] More

  • NAVSEA to Oversee OPM ID Protection Services Contract
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    NAVSEA to Oversee OPM ID Protection Services Contract

    The U.S. Navy will lead efforts to secure a contractor that will provide identity protection services to address the hack on the Office of Personnel Management‘s security clearance database, GovExec reported Monday. Eric Katz writes the General Services Administration, OPM and Defense Department appointed Naval Sea Systems Command to oversee the solicitation and contracting process. NAVSEA could award […] More

  • Lockheed Rolls Out Tool for UAS Traffic Mgmt; Paul Engola Comments
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    Lockheed Rolls Out Tool for UAS Traffic Mgmt; Paul Engola Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced a traffic management platform designed to help operators of unmanned aerial systems share flight information with other pilots. Lockheed is working with NASA and other institutions to develop additional functions for the UTM system under the Space Act data sharing agreement, the company said Monday. “Our objective is an open, standards-based system […] More

  • Navy Orders L-3 KEO Modular Masts for Submarines; Matthew Richi Comments
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    Navy Orders L-3 KEO Modular Masts for Submarines; Matthew Richi Comments

    L-3 KEO will produce eight universal modular masts for U.S. Navy submarines under a new contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command. The L-3 subsidiary will build the individual masts for Virginia-class submarines and up to 10 additional shipsets under a four-year option of the deal, L-3 said Thursday. “We are very pleased to have this opportunity to extend L-3 […] More