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  • Leidos to Help Build Defense Security Service's Integrated Info System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Build Defense Security Service’s Integrated Info System

    Leidos has secured a four-year, $40 million contract modification from the Defense Security Service to develop an integrated technology platform that will replace DSS’ Industrial Security Facilities Database and Electronic Facility Clearance System. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will build an automated National Industrial Security System for DSS under the modification. Work will occur at Leidos’ facility in Columbia, Maryland through […] More

  • Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development

    Aurora Flight Sciences has secured a six-month, $2.9 million contract to continue the development of the D8 subsonic commercial aircraft as part of NASA’s aviation innovation efforts. The contract aims to help establish requirements for the experimental aircraft or X-Plane program and kick-start the research phase to further develop the D8 commercial airliner, Aurora said Sept. 13. The goal is […] More

  • Avaya to Help Run Dubai Transport Agency's Contact Center Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya to Help Run Dubai Transport Agency’s Contact Center Operations

    Avaya has received a three-year contract of an undisclosed value from Dubai’s roads and transport authority to provide managed services to the agency’s contact center. RTA — which crafts transport, road and traffic management requirements across Dubai — has implemented Avaya’s customer engagement and support systems to create the 8009090 Contact Center project, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Ping4 to Develop Flood Alerting Mobile Platform for First Responders Under DHS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ping4 to Develop Flood Alerting Mobile Platform for First Responders Under DHS Contract

    Ping4 has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a mobile communications platform that will work to alert first responders on flood conditions. Smartphone application developer Ping4 said Tuesday the platform will be designed to use location-based features of smart mobile devices to provide area-specific alerts such as flood […] More

  • Lightower Fiber Networks Added to GSA IT Schedule 70; Rob Shanahan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lightower Fiber Networks Added to GSA IT Schedule 70; Rob Shanahan Comments

    Lightower Fiber Networks has been awarded a position on the Government Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to provide networking services to the federal government. Lightower said Monday it will work with customer agencies to develop network and disaster recovery services such as dark fiber, Ethernet, wavelengths and internet access under the contract with GSA. Rob Shanahan, CEO […] More

  • Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awarded NASA Solar Observatory Support Extension; Bart De Pontieu Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $19.4 million contract to continue to help NASA operate a satellite the company designed to observe the sun and support related scientific studies. Lockheed said Monday the contract extends the company’s support for the Interface Region Imaging Spectograph observatory through September 2018, with an option for further extension of the performance period until September 2019. “IRIS has taken more […] More

  • Novetta to Develop System-of-Systems Architecture for DoD Insider Threat Mgmt & Analysis Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Novetta to Develop System-of-Systems Architecture for DoD Insider Threat Mgmt & Analysis Center

    Novetta has received potential four-year, $10 million contract to help develop and sustain a system-of-systems architecture at he Defense Security Service‘s Defense Insider Threat Management and Analysis Center. The Defense Department said Monday the SoS architecture will be built to help DITMAC reach full operating capability. Work will occur at the DSS DITMAC office in Arlington, Virginia through Sept. 25, 2020. DSS’ […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica to Supply UK Air Force With Missile Decoy System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica to Supply UK Air Force With Missile Decoy System

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica has received a $3.3 million contract from the U.K. defense ministry to produce a miniature decoy system that will work to help the British air force guard aircraft against missile threats. The Royal Air Force will adopt Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s BriteCloud system to disrupt radar-guided adversarial air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems, MoD said Friday. RAF plans to conduct flight tests […] More

  • GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the agency’s weather forecasts and warnings. […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract

    NASA has awarded Charles River Analytics a two-year, $750,000 follow-on contract to develop a system for the space agency to measure and evaluate astronaut workload. The company said Monday it will collaborate with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University to build the Cognitive Assessment and Prediction to Promote Individualized Capability Augmentation and Reduce Decrement system for NASA. Bethany Bracken, a Charles River […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy LXR Amphibious Ship Design Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy LXR Amphibious Ship Design Contract Modification

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured a $19.1 million contract modification to accelerate design work on the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious ship replacement program. The Naval Sea Systems Command obligated $3 million at the time of the award of the modification from the Navy’s fiscal 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will […] More

  • DARPA Partners With 4 Firms to Develop Battery-Powered Atomic Clocks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Partners With 4 Firms to Develop Battery-Powered Atomic Clocks

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded separate contracts to Physical Sciences, OEwaves, HRL Laboratories and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to support a program that seeks to develop battery-powered atomic clocks, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. John Keller writes HRL Laboratories secured a $775,159 contract for phase one work under the Atomic Clock with Enhanced Stability program with a potential $697,826 phase […] More