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  • Report: Lockheed-Sikorsky JV, Navy Discuss Helicopter Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed-Sikorsky JV, Navy Discuss Helicopter Maintenance Contract

    Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft’s joint venture is discussing a follow-on contract with the U.S. Navy to maintain the service’s H-60 helicopter fleet, Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Jill Aitoro writes the Maritime Helicopter Support Co. works to repair, modify and procure more than 1,700 airframe and avionics parts for the H-60 series aircraft under […] More

  • FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Certifies Telos ID’s Biometric Systems; Mark Griffin Comments

    Telos ID has obtained the FBI’s certification for the company’s fingerprint capture and enrollment software. The FBI’s criminal justice information services division and Mitre Corp. collaborated to review Telos ID’s MobileAssure fingerprint web capture and MobileAssure enrollment software, Telos ID said Tuesday. “Telos ID continues to work closely with the FBI and other law enforcement […] More

  • Ingate, eTechHelp Partner to Integrate NCTCOG's Cloud-Based Enterprise Communication Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ingate, eTechHelp Partner to Integrate NCTCOG’s Cloud-Based Enterprise Communication Apps

    Ingate Systems and eTechHelp have collaborated to help the North Central Texas Council of Governments consolidate the group’s multivendor communication tools with an Office 365 cloud platform. The companies said Monday they worked to integrate Cisco‘s Unified Communications technology and Microsoft‘s Exchange Online hosted messaging service into a single cloud computing environment. ETechHelp used the […] More

  • Exelis to Build Maritime Electronic Warfare Tech for Sweden; Dave Prater Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Build Maritime Electronic Warfare Tech for Sweden; Dave Prater Comments

    Exelis has won a more than $17 million contract from shipbuilder Saab to supply electronic support measures to Sweden. The company will build ES-3701 electronic warfare technology for situational awareness, targeting, self-protection and surveillance missions, Exelis said Tuesday. “Our ESM technology will equip Sweden to handle a range of emerging threats they face, now and in […] More

  • Mark Lancaster: SDL's Navy Enterprise Subscription License to Support Technical Data Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Lancaster: SDL’s Navy Enterprise Subscription License to Support Technical Data Mgmt

    SDL has secured a Navy Enterprise Subscription License agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center – Carderock Division to support the service’s technical data management goals with the Standard NAVSEA Integrated Publishing Process. The company said Tuesday it also signed a Compatibility Sustainment Agreement for the NAVSEA viewer and SDL LiveContent S1000D. “We’re honored to help the U.S. Navy with its […] More

  • US Navy Seeks Proposals for ERP Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Seeks Proposals for ERP Support Services

    The Department of the Navy is seeking industry proposals to manage and maintain the service’s enterprise resource planning system. The Navy issued a request for proposals Friday for products and services such as business services management, reporting and analysis, user management and operational support. The service plans to award an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a base […] More

  • Wray Varley, Pete Dale Take Sales Leadership Roles at Infinera - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wray Varley, Pete Dale Take Sales Leadership Roles at Infinera

    Wray Varley and Pete Dale have joined Infinera as vice presidents of sales for the optical networking company’s government and cloud businesses, respectively. Varley, a more than 25-year telecommunications veteran, aims to drive sales programs across the public sector in his new position, Infinera said Tuesday. He most recently served as an area sales executive […] More

  • Dan Nelson Joins Lockheed as Media Relations VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Nelson Joins Lockheed as Media Relations VP

    Dan Nelson, formerly communications strategies lead at General Electric’s digital energy business, has joined Lockheed Martin as vice president of worldwide media relations. He will report to Jennifer Whitlow, senior VP of corporate communications, and serve as Lockheed’s chief spokesperson and adviser to senior executives on media engagements, Lockheed Martin said Monday. Nelson will also […] More

  • KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments

    Information Builders said the latest KLAS Research survey has ranked the company among the top four business intelligence and analytics services providers for the healthcare industry. The study cited Information Builders’ use of various methodologies (scheduled reporting, data mining, data integrity, data warehousing) and approaches (mobile, self-service BI) to reach and satisfy more customers, Information […] More

  • Jay McConville: Lockheed Sets Sights on Civil, Commercial UAV Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jay McConville: Lockheed Sets Sights on Civil, Commercial UAV Market

    Jay McConville, director of business development for unmanned solutions at Lockheed Martin, said the contractor is studying several avenues toward marketing its small unmanned aerial vehicles to civil and commercial clients, the National Defense Magazine reported Monday. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that the executive, speaking to reporters earlier in the week, highlighted the demand small drones have generated […] More

  • Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Orders $15M in Harris Falcon III Radios; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. will provide Falcon III radios and related accessories to the U.S. Marine Corps AN/MRC-145 program under a $15 million contract designed to expand the branch’s communications network capabilities. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G-based wideband radio systems can be mounted on land transports, have upgradeable software and are integrated with soldier radio waveform technology, Harris […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud Tool for Financial Services

    Oracle has rolled out a new cloud tool that seeks to address the security needs and other requirements for financial services clients that seek to migrate their information technology systems. “Today’s savvy financial services companies are looking to migrate their applications to the cloud to take advantage of modern technologies, like social and mobile capabilities,” Thomas Kurian, […] More