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  • Army Seeks Technical Support for TRADOC Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Technical Support for TRADOC Missions

    The Department of the Army has posted a sources sought notice for small businesses keen on providing technical services for asymmetric threat solutions. Work for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Asymmetric Warfare Group, will occur at Fort Meade in Maryland, Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia and in areas of operations, DA indicated in the FedBizOpps notice […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Vehicle Turrets for General Dynamics UK; Stephen Ball Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s U.K. business has received a $1 billion subcontract from General Dynamics UK to design, produce, test and integrate 245 turrets for General Dynamics‘ SCOUT Specialist Vehicles that are used by the British military. Stephen Ball, CEO of Lockheed Martin UK, said Tuesday the company plans to sustain almost 900 jobs at its site in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and collaborate with small and midsize […] More

  • Bassim Shebaro: Jacobs to Help Saudi Arabia Build Industrial Cities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bassim Shebaro: Jacobs to Help Saudi Arabia Build Industrial Cities

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a two-year contract of an undisclosed amount with the Saudi Industry Property Authority to design and develop industrial cities in the country. The company will provide concept and design services for three new industrial cities in Saudi Arabia, the company said Tuesday. “We look forward to supporting MODON’s goal to create a lasting and […] More

  • Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Redman: CAE Expands NZ Military Support Through Training Device Update Work

    CAE will provide New Zealand’s defense forces with updates and life-cycle and maintenance support for their Kaman SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite synthetic pilot training devices for 15 years. The company said Tuesday it will update NZDF’s SH-2G(I) Full Mission Flight Simulator and SH-2G(I) Part Task Trainer, which Kaman will deliver along with 10 SH-2G(I) helicopters to the New Zealand air force base […] More

  • SAIC Launches E-Ticketing Tool for Law Enforcers; Terry Hicks Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Launches E-Ticketing Tool for Law Enforcers; Terry Hicks Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has unveiled an electronic ticketing tool that the company designed to help law enforcement clients process and issue tickets to violators. The Qwik-e-Ticket system works to create and send tickets electronically through Saltus Technologies LLC’s digiTICKET software, SAIC said Tuesday. “Our solution can scan IDs and licenses, issue tickets, capture GPS coordinates, electronic signatures, voice notes and […] More

  • Force 3's Jason Parry: Enterprises See Value in 'Software-Defined Everything' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force 3’s Jason Parry: Enterprises See Value in ‘Software-Defined Everything’

    Jason Parry, vice president of client solutions at consulting and integration firm Force 3, believes “software-defined everything” provides value and return on investment for enterprises, ChannelPro Network reported Oct. 10. Parry told the publication that companies have adopted SDE tools for automated information technology tasks and provisioning work, Samuel Greengard reports. He recommends that channel professionals focus on […] More

  • Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, SAP Release Mobile Data Mgmt Cartridge; Julio Tapia Comments

    Red Hat and SAP have released a mobile data management cartridge for SAP SQL Anywhere that works to support remote and mobile application development and synchronization with MySQL-based applications in Red Hat’s OpenShift. Red Hat said Monday the cartridge is part of its ongoing partnership with SAP to support database and application development for different operating systems, services and […] More

  • Lockheed to Manufacture Concord Blue Advanced Waste Converter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Manufacture Concord Blue Advanced Waste Converter

    Lockheed Martin has signed a contract to help manufacture waste solutions provider Concord Blue Energy’s advanced waste converter. Under the agreement, the defense contractor will provide support to make the components of the Concord Blue Reformer, technology that uses heat transfer to convert waste into energy, Concord Blue said Oct. 10. The partnership follows a pact […] More

  • Raytheon Readies $750M TOW Missiles Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Readies $750M TOW Missiles Order

    Raytheon expects to finalize a $750 million order of tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided missiles from the government in the coming weeks. The multiyear deal will involve the delivery of close to 14,000 units of the weapons system to a U.S. ally under a foreign military sales agreement, Raytheon said Thursday. The missile system includes the […] More

  • Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Combines Health Analytics Software with NetApp Storage Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Combines Health Analytics Software with NetApp Storage Platform

    Information Builders has integrated its healthcare software application into a NetApp-built data storage product with the goal of helping medical users capture, analyze and store patient information in real time. The unified offering is designed to combine Information Builders’ Omni-Patient enterprise data management platform and NetApp’s flash array storage architecture, Information Builders said Thursday. “Today’s […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives $6M Radar Subsystems Follow-on Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives $6M Radar Subsystems Follow-on Order

    Mercury Systems will provide technical support for an unnamed company’s naval radar applications under a follow-on task order worth $5.7 million. The work will run for several months and include solutions for digital signal processing systems, the company said Thursday. Brian Hoerl, Mercury vice president of sales, indicated that the new project extends the company’s […] More

  • Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Build Electrical, Fiber Optic Tech for GD Electric Boat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Build Electrical, Fiber Optic Tech for GD Electric Boat

    Teledyne Technologies will assemble the electrical and fiber optic interconnect of the U.S. Navy‘s submarines under a subcontract from General Dynamics Electric Boat. Teledyne’s oil and gas group will provide materials and hardware engineering support services for 10 ships under the Navy’s Virginia-class submarine program, Teledyne said Thursday. “Working together, our oil & gas companies have demonstrated the ability to develop and manufacture […] More