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  • Pentagon Accounting Office Requests Info on Financial System Maintenance, Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Accounting Office Requests Info on Financial System Maintenance, Development

    The Defense Finance and Accounting Service is requesting industry input on information technology support services needed to help develop and maintain its federal accounting system.  A maintenance and development contract is being considered to cover documentation and analysis to design, develop, test and implement automated capabilities in the Defense Integrated Financial System, according to a […] More

  • Catalyst Accelerator Seeks Program Participants to Streamline USAF Digital Model Processing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catalyst Accelerator Seeks Program Participants to Streamline USAF Digital Model Processing

    A three-month startup accelerator program will be launched by Catalyst Accelerator in an effort to boost the efficiency of the U.S. Air Force’s digital model processing. Catalyst Accelerator’s operations in Ogden, Utah, is inviting applications from small businesses that can present technologies capable of streamlining the service branch’s Unified Certification Strategy, the accelerator said Tuesday. […] More

  • Spectral Energies Estimates $50M in Funding for Defense Tech Facility Establishment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spectral Energies Estimates $50M in Funding for Defense Tech Facility Establishment

    Spectral Energies is seeking to raise $50 million in approximate funding to support the planning and development of a defense-focused facility for hypersonic counter-threat technologies production, The Business Journals reported Wednesday. The Beavercreek, Ohio-headquartered aerospace and defense technology provider is looking to receive $5 million through the Dayton Region Priority Development and Advocacy Committee and […] More

  • Report: NASA Considers SpaceX Capsule as Possible Ride Home for ISS Crew Members Amid Soyuz Leak - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: NASA Considers SpaceX Capsule as Possible Ride Home for ISS Crew Members Amid Soyuz Leak

    NASA is considering the possibility of using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft as an alternative vehicle to transport some astronauts from the International Space Station to Earth following the discovery of a coolant leak in Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked at the ISS, Reuters reported Wednesday. NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos are looking into the […] More

  • USACE to Launch Solicitation for ANSol Tank Farm Facility Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USACE to Launch Solicitation for ANSol Tank Farm Facility Construction

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to launch a full and open competition for the construction of a new ammonium nitrate solution tank farm facility at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tennessee. In a notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov, USACE said the design-build project is estimated to cost between $100 million and […] More

  • 5 Companies Awarded $99M Navy Contract for Construction Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Companies Awarded $99M Navy Contract for Construction Projects

    CORE Engineering & Construction, Healtheon, Howard W. Pence, Sergent Construction and Wright Bros have won a combined $99 million construction contract from the U.S. Navy. Under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the military branch will procure services for construction projects at Department of Defense facilities within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast operations area, the DOD said Wednesday. Work under the […] More

  • General Atomics to Sustain Army Gray Eagle UAS Under $75M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Sustain Army Gray Eagle UAS Under $75M Contract

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a $75 million contract to help the U.S. Army sustain its fleet of Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide logistics support for the sustainment of the Gray Eagle Block 0 system under the sole source contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.  The CLS contract […] More

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    ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum: CISA BOD 23-01 Directive to Advance Zero Trust Plans in 2023

    Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said cybersecurity emerged as a top concern for organizations in 2022 and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s release of a binding operational directive, BOD 23-01, meant to enhance asset visibility and vulnerability detection on federal networks will drive agency adoption of zero trust architecture in the […] More

  • Patricia Kitchen to Lead Capture, Business Development Efforts at Peraton - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patricia Kitchen to Lead Capture, Business Development Efforts at Peraton

    Patricia Kitchen, a former account and capture executive at Peraton, has been appointed as director of capture and business development at the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered company, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Kitchen took on the new position more than a year after joining Peraton. Earlier, she spent over six years at Northrop Grumman, where […] More

  • Defense Innovation Unit Seeks Energy-Efficient Heaters for DOD Buildings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Innovation Unit Seeks Energy-Efficient Heaters for DOD Buildings

    The Defense Innovation Unit issued a commercial solutions opening for technologies that can reduce the carbon footprint of space and water heating systems in the Department of Defense’s buildings. DIU said it is looking to prototype cost-effective innovations that can improve on air-source heat pumps and HP water heaters and are usable in workspaces, barracks […] More

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona to Support TriWest Under DOD Tricare T-5 West Region Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona to Support TriWest Under DOD Tricare T-5 West Region Contract

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona will support TriWest Healthcare Alliance in delivering Tricare health care services to service personnel, retirees and their families across 26 states in the West region under a contract with the Department of Defense. TriWest won a $65.1 billion managed care support contract from the Defense Health Agency for the […] More

  • Tantus to Provide USDA Agencies With Cybersecurity Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tantus to Provide USDA Agencies With Cybersecurity Services

    The Department of Agriculture selected Tantus Technologies to provide cybersecurity support to the information assurance branch of its Farm Production and Conservation arm. The agency said Thursday the contract covers information technology security compliance support, assessment and authorization documentation analysis for the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Risk Management Agency. It […] More