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  • Report: DoD to Raise EHR System Deployment Contract Ceiling by $1.1B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DoD to Raise EHR System Deployment Contract Ceiling by $1.1B

    The Defense Department plans to increase the ceiling amount of a potential 10-year, $4.3 billion contract to update and deploy a new electronic health records platform by approximately $1.1 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. An industry team composed of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won the MHS Genesis EHR contract in July 2015. Stacy Cummings, program executive officer […] More

  • DARPA to Host Competitors Day for Underground Tech Development Contest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Competitors Day for Underground Tech Development Contest

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to hold a competitors day on Sept. 27 to discuss its timeline and vision for a prize competition that will explore technology platforms for potential use by warfighters and emergency responders in underground settings. DARPA said Friday it seeks multiple teams to develop systems for mapping, navigating and searching man-made tunnel […] More

  • DISA Eyes Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Architecture Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Eyes Cloud-Based Cybersecurity Architecture Implementation

    The Defense Information Systems Agency seeks information on potential industry sources of cloud implementation services for a Defense Department cybersecurity program. DISA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it wants to determine the availability and technical capacity of companies to provide cloud infrastructure-as-a-service support to the Acropolis program. Acropolis works to protect, consolidate and integrate defensive cyber operations data from the DoD […] More

  • Northrop Awarded Supplemental Agreement for Marine Radar Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Awarded Supplemental Agreement for Marine Radar Engineering Support

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $35.8 million supplemental agreement to engineer software for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar systems with gallium nitride technology. The company will also help the service branch develop an engineering change proposal required to support the G/ATOR program, the Defense Department said Friday. G/ATOR is designed integrate with DoD’s command-and-control […] More

  • Comprehensive Health Services Holds DoD Advisory Board Meeting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comprehensive Health Services Holds DoD Advisory Board Meeting

    Executives of Comprehensive Health Services met with a company-formed advisory panel last month to discuss Defense Department business opportunities, partnerships, online presence and portfolio expansion efforts. The DoD Advisory Board Meeting took place June 28 at CHS’ headquarters in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and featured a discussion on current and future bids, potential customers and services and recent internal […] More

  • Leidos Wins Army Munitions Remediation Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Wins Army Munitions Remediation Support Contract

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Army  dispose of munitions and hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste materials. The Army Corps of Engineers received 14 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract and will determine funds and work locations for each individual order under the project slated for completion by July 10, 2023, the Defense […] More

  • ARA Wins Potential $50M USAF Sensor Tech R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARA Wins Potential $50M USAF Sensor Tech R&D Contract

    Applied Research Associates will help the U.S. Air Force study and create modern detection technologies under a potential $49.6 million contract for the Advanced Laboratories for Analysis of Sensors program. The company will support research and development of electro-optical, multispectral and radio frequency systems, sensors, and test methods and approaches, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More

  • Parsons to Support Architect, Engineer Services for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Support Architect, Engineer Services for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    Parsons‘ government services business has received a potential $24 million U.S. Army contract for architect-engineer services. Work under the firm-fixed-price contract is expected to run until July 10, 2023, with each order determining funding and work locations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received five bids through an online solicitation. Parsons […] More

  • Lockheed Eyes Hercules Training Center Launch in September; Vic Torla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Eyes Hercules Training Center Launch in September; Vic Torla Comments

    Vic Torla, director of business development training and logistics solutions at Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business, said in a Shepard Media report published Wednesday the company expects the certification for the Hercules Full Mission Simulator to be completed by September. The Hercules Training Center co-located with the aircraft production and collection facility in Marietta, Ga. […] More

  • Survey: 80% of DoD IT Leaders Call for Improved Cloud Adoption to Maintain Military Edge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Survey: 80% of DoD IT Leaders Call for Improved Cloud Adoption to Maintain Military Edge

    A new MeriTalk report has found that 80 percent of information technology leaders at the Defense Department said their agency needs to ramp up cloud adoption to execute their missions and keep up the military’s technical edge. MeriTalk said Tuesday the “Innovation Imperative: The Drive to Modernize DoD” report underwritten by Red Hat and Amazon Web […] More

  • Air Force Selects Perspecta for $50M Nuclear Detonation Monitoring Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Selects Perspecta for $50M Nuclear Detonation Monitoring Support IDIQ

    Perspecta has won a potential six-year, $49.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop technology platforms that can support efforts to monitor space, atmosphere and subsurface nuclear detonations. The company will provide analytical, engineering and scientific services to mature approaches, processes, tools and systems used to track nuclear treaties and directed technology applications, the […] More

  • Ensco to Demo Positioning, Navigation & Timing Platforms; Boris Nejikovsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Demo Positioning, Navigation & Timing Platforms; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Ensco will showcase commercial off-the-shelf positioning, navigation and timing platforms at an upcoming conference the Institute of Navigation’s military division will host for the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The company said Friday it will demonstrate the Timing, Communications and Ranging IP measurement system and the Timing, Communications and Ranging Device during the 2018 Joint Navigation Conference. JNC will take […] More