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  • Former Northrop Exec Chris Kinman to Join Momentus as Chief Commercial Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Northrop Exec Chris Kinman to Join Momentus as Chief Commercial Officer

    Commercial space company Momentus named Chris Kinman, who has over 30 years of government and industry experience, as chief commercial officer, effective from Jan. 9.  Kinman previously served as senior business development executive for Northrop Grumman‘s space sector business, where he led the business development team in the capture of space-related opportunities with the intelligence and […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Fidelis Cybersecurity Platforms to DOD Under Expanded ESI Agreement; Alex Whitworth Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Fidelis Cybersecurity Platforms to DOD Under Expanded ESI Agreement; Alex Whitworth Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology will give the Department of Defense and intelligence community access to Fidelis Cybersecurity‘s threat detection platforms through a recent blanket purchase agreement for DOD Enterprise Software Initiative. Under the BPA, Carahsoft will offer Fidelis’ Elevate open and active eXtended detection and response tool and CloudPassage Halo unified cloud security and compliance platform to […] More

  • Sparksoft Awarded CMS Enterprise Data Lake, Master Data Management Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparksoft Awarded CMS Enterprise Data Lake, Master Data Management Support Contract

    Sparksoft will help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improve its enterprise master data management and enterprise data lake platform under a potential five-year, $45 million contract. The company said Friday it will provide services across various areas, including Agile transformation services and DevSecOps delivery; operations and maintenance; cloud services configuration, design, development and […] More

  • NOAA Seeks Proposals for Environmental Field Services Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Seeks Proposals for Environmental Field Services Contracts

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting offers as it plans to launch a full and open competition and award six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for environmental field services. The services to be provided under the IDIQ contracts will support the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services within NOAA’s National Ocean Service, according to a […] More

  • Matthew Milas Named President of Defense & Space at Honeywell Aerospace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matthew Milas Named President of Defense & Space at Honeywell Aerospace

    Matthew Milas, former vice president at L3Harris Technologies, has joined Honeywell to serve as president of defense and space at its aerospace-focused business, according to his LinkedIn announcement. The executive is now responsible for driving Honeywell Aerospace’s delivery of electronic platforms, engines, power and mechanical systems, satellite technologies, space vehicles, microelectronics and other offerings to […] More

  • Army Places $102M Oshkosh JLTV Order for US Allies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Places $102M Oshkosh JLTV Order for US Allies

    Oshkosh‘s defense subsidiary has received a $102 million order to manufacture Joint Light Tactical Vehicles for five U.S. allies. Brazil, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania will receive the JLTVs through the order from Army Contracting Command-Detroit Arsenal, the company said Tuesday. Lithuania accepted a second batch of 50 JLTVs in November and John Lazar, […] More

  • Joe Jeter Appointed Maximus Federal Technology SVP; Teresa Weipert Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Jeter Appointed Maximus Federal Technology SVP; Teresa Weipert Quoted

    Joe Jeter has been named senior vice president for federal technology at Maximus, where he will be responsible for guiding its technology strategy and method for government agencies. In his new role, Jeter will leverage his experience in technology strategy development, process enhancement and operational execution, the Tysons, Virginia-based company said Wednesday. “Joe has proven himself as […] More

  • Army Vet Stephen Lyons Appointed to iRocket Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Vet Stephen Lyons Appointed to iRocket Board

    Stephen “Steve” Lyons, a retired U.S. Army general and former commander of U.S. Transportation Command, has been appointed to the board of directors at Innovative Rocket Technologies, a manufacturer of fully reusable small launch vehicle. Lyons retired from the Army in 2021 after nearly four decades of service and was appointed as port and supply […] More

  • Kratos to Produce XQ-58A Valkyrie Drones for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Produce XQ-58A Valkyrie Drones for Navy

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a nine-month, $15.5 million contract to manufacture and deliver two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aerial systems. The drones will be equipped with sensor and weapon system payloads that support penetrating affordable autonomous collaborative killer objectives, the Defense Department said Friday.  Kratos’ unmanned aerial systems unit will receive the full […] More

  • Google Cloud's Lynn Martin Details Trends Changing Government Operations in 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Cloud’s Lynn Martin Details Trends Changing Government Operations in 2023

    Lynn Martin, vice president of the North American public sector business at Google Cloud, said artificial intelligence, collaboration tools, security platforms and online education will change how government employees provide services to the public in 2023.  Martin wrote in a Nextgov guest piece published Thursday that AI, which has been used in climate science, health […] More

  • Navy to Solicit Bids for $99M Naval Communication Facilities Construction Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Solicit Bids for $99M Naval Communication Facilities Construction Work

    The U.S. Navy plans to launch a competition for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract with a $99 million ceiling to provide construction support for the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center.  Work will include construction support for specialized antennas, towers and communication facilities for the NAVFAC EXWC. It will also cover structural, mechanical, utility […] More