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Leidos to Support DOD’s Military & Family Life Counseling Program Under $2B Contract; Roger Krone Quoted

Leidos has been awarded a potential seven-year, $2 billion prime contract to provide non-medical counseling to service members and their families through the Department of Defense's Military and Family Life Counseling program. The General Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center awarded the cost-plus-award-fee contract with a 12-month base period, four 12-month options and a pair of 12-month incentive periods.

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by Sarah Sybert February 4, 2021, 10:45 am
in Executive Moves, M&A Activity, News, Space News, Wash100

Peraton Realigns Business Sectors, Appoints New Exec Leadership; Stu Shea Quoted

Peraton has aligned the company around four business sectors and appointed new executives to its leadership team, following its $3.4 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman's integrated mission support and IT solutions business, the company reported on Thursday. "As Peraton expands we will be faced with a complex range of new opportunities and challenges across our functions and businesses,â€ said Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.Â

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by Sarah Sybert February 4, 2021, 9:52 am
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VA Implements CGI-Made Product for Financial, Procurement Management

The Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted a CGI-made enterprise platform as part of a program intended to modernize the department's procurement and financial operations. VA implemented CGI's Momentum, a system designed to help agencies manage procurement, budgeting, assets and finances, in support of the department's Financial Management Business Transformation program, CGI said Wednesday.

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by Nichols Martin February 4, 2021, 9:30 am
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Telos to Support FBI’s Cyber Risk Management Effort With Xacta Suite

Ashburn, Virginia-based information technology company Telos has received a potential five-year, $13.5 million contract from the FBI for a cyber risk management capability in support of the bureau's Enterprise Information Security Section.

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by Christine Thropp February 4, 2021, 8:51 am
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Carahsoft to Offer Yext Search Product to Public Sector

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to market a full-search platform designed by Yext to government agencies through the Reston, Virginia-based company's reseller partners as well as the National Association of State Procurement Officials Valuepoint and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts.

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by Matthew Nelson February 4, 2021, 6:56 am
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Xerox 3D Printer to Support Manufacturing Research at Naval Postgraduate School

Xerox has provided a liquid metal 3D printer to Naval Postgraduate School under a cooperative research and development agreement to explore the potential use of such technology in developing systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Students and faculty members at NPS can use the Xerox ElemX additive manufacturing system for hands-on learning and dissertation work, the company said Wednesday.

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by Nichols Martin February 4, 2021, 6:44 am
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Spirit AeroSystems Subsidiary Gets NASA Contract for Thermal Protection Materials

A Spirit AeroSystems subsidiary has landed a potential five-year, $24 million contract to deliver thermal protection systems that will support upcoming NASA deep space exploration missions.

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by Matthew Nelson February 4, 2021, 6:22 am
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Army Taps Allison for Abrams Transmission Engineering Effort

Allison Transmission has received a $3.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to support an engineering program for a transmission unit designed to power the military service branch's Abrams combat vehicles.

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by Matthew Nelson February 4, 2021, 5:49 am
in Contract Awards, Cybersecurity News, Government Cloud, News

Air Force Issues Update on ‘COMET’ IT Support IDIQ

The U.S. Air Force has announced that the follow-on vehicle for information technology services in support of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center will be a potential 10-year, $778 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

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by Jane Edwards February 4, 2021, 5:25 am
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Ben Kassel, Bruce Kaplan: Advancing DODâ€™s Digital Engineering Strategy Requires Work in Model-Based Technical Data

Ben Kassel and Bruce Kaplan of LMI wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should pursue the implementation of its digital engineering strategy by advancing the availability of model-based technical data in policy.

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by Jane Edwards February 4, 2021, 4:34 am
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Riva to Help Modernize USDA’s Drupal-Based Web Platform

The Department of Agriculture has awarded management consulting services company Riva Solutions a $49.5 million contract to perform technical development support for the Drupal open-source web platform to help the department modernize its web presence.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers February 4, 2021, 4:32 am
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DARPA Selects Duality Technologies to Lead Data Encryption Tech Development Effort

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded cryptography and data sciences company Duality Technologies a $14.5 million contract to help develop an encryption concept for privacy-sensitive applications such as health care and finance.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers February 4, 2021, 4:02 am