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  • Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Geofeedia Social Media Intell Tools in Federal Sector

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the federal government aggregator of Geofeedia‘s location-based social media intelligence tools under a partnership agreement between the two companies. Geofeedia said Wednesday its products are now available to public sector agencies through Carahsoft’s General Services Administration schedule and Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts. Tiffany Goddard, director of geospatial solutions at Carahsoft, said the […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 50th Super Hercules Tanker to Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 50th Super Hercules Tanker to Marine Corps

    Lockheed Martin has handed a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Thursday the service branch received on Aug. 18 its 50th Lockheed-built KC-130J aircraft, will be assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California. The KC-130J tanker is designed to perform aerial refueling operations for helicopters, tactical and tiltrotor aircraft […] More

  • WidePoint Receives Approval to Issue ID Credentials for Defense, Civilian Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint Receives Approval to Issue ID Credentials for Defense, Civilian Requirements

    WidePoint has received approval to issue identity credentials that meet the requirements of the Defense Department and the General Services Administration. The company said Thursday it becomes the first source of ECA PIV-I credentials that combine DoD-issued External Certification Authority and civilian agencies’ Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable credentials. ECA PIV-I credentials are also designed to help enterprises achieve multi-factor authentication, digital signature […] More

  • Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Develop Environmental Health Hazard Sensor for DHS; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Ensco Inc. has been awarded a two-year, $4 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop an integrated sensor system for the detection of biological and environmental health hazards in buildings. The company said Thursday it aims to build, test and integrate a tiered aerosol detection system with dedicated environmental monitoring sensors and emerging commercial sensors under the second phase […] More

  • Vectrus Subsidiary Receives AF Task Order to Provide Installation Services in Qatar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Subsidiary Receives AF Task Order to Provide Installation Services in Qatar

    A Vectrus subsidiary has received a $21 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to perform a range of installation services in support of the U.S. military operations at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The company said Friday Vectrus Systems will provide maintenance, custodial, lodging, recreation and hospital aseptic services under the task order awarded through the Air Force Contract Augmentation […] More

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    NASA Taps Motorola Solutions for Land Mobile Radio Installation, Maintenance Contract

    Motorola Solutions has received a potential five-year, $9.1 million contract to install and maintain land mobile radio systems at two NASA-run facilities. NASA said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract has a base term of one year and four option years worth approximately $1.8 million and contains indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity components valued at approximately $7.3 million. The company will field and […] More

  • Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks Okland Construction to Build F-35 Operations, Maintenance Hangar

    Okland Construction has won a potential $24 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to design and build an F-35 operations, maintenance, administration and six-position maintenance hangar facility. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 10 bids for the project through an online-based solicitation and obligated the full contract amount at the time of award from fiscal 2016 military […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a potential $448.7 million contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo parts and equipment to the U.S. Navy and the government of Thailand under the foreign military sales program. The contract, which contains a base value of $37.7 million, covers MK 54 common parts kits and MK 54 Mod 0 kits as well as exercise […] More

  • Microsoft Offers Big Data Migration Service for Azure Govt Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Offers Big Data Migration Service for Azure Govt Cloud Users

    Microsoft has launched a service offering intended to help customer agencies move huge amounts of data into or out of the company’s blob storage within the Azure Government cloud network. Brenda Lee, a Microsoft program manager, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Azure Import/Export Service offering will work to help government organizations migrate data through shipment of hard […] More

  • Elbit Systems Flies Hermes 450 at UAS Field Day in North Dakota - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Flies Hermes 450 at UAS Field Day in North Dakota

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary and its partners held an unmanned aircraft systems field day at the Hillsboro Regional Airport in North Dakota in efforts to demonstrate the precision agriculture and utility infrastructure damage assessment functions of the Hermes 450 UAS. Elbit Systems of America worked with local farmers to collect and analyze data to support crop management and […] More

  • DCCA to Build, Maintain IT Platform for CMS' Medicaid Drug Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCCA to Build, Maintain IT Platform for CMS’ Medicaid Drug Program

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded Data Computer Corporation of America a potential four-year, $12 million contract to design, build and maintain an information technology system for CMS’ Medicaid Drug Program. DCCA said Wednesday it will use open architecture and open source commercial off-the-shelf products to develop the MDP platform as well as apply a human-centric design approach that complies with […] More

  • BPM Accredited as FedRAMP Third-Party Assessment Organization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BPM Accredited as FedRAMP Third-Party Assessment Organization

    BPM has received accreditation as a Third Party Assessment Organization that can conduct assessments of cloud service providers in accordance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday it will utilize previous assessment work by its information technology assurance group based on the International Organization for Standardization, Service Organization Control and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act […] More