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  • Booz Allen Wins $50M Contract to Help Army Manage Chemical Warfare Materials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Wins $50M Contract to Help Army Manage Chemical Warfare Materials

    Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential five-year, $50 million contract to support a U.S. Army directorate focused on the assessment and destruction of recovered chemical warfare materials. The company will provide program management, mission and operational support services to the Army’s Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled to finish by July 12, […] More

  • VSE Receives US Military Orders to Provide Technical, Program Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Receives US Military Orders to Provide Technical, Program Support Services

     VSE has secured contracts worth up to $46.2 million combined to provide a range of technical and program support services to Defense Department customers. The company said Tuesday it received a potential three-year, $17.8 million task order through the U.S. Army‘s Rapid Response Third Generation contract, or R23G, to deliver support services for Army Reserve Command’s equipment, engineering, […] More

  • Unisys' Jennifer Napper, Susan Becker Named to Leadership Roles at Govt-Industry Partnership Organizations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Jennifer Napper, Susan Becker Named to Leadership Roles at Govt-Industry Partnership Organizations

    Two executives from Unisys‘ federal business unit, Jennifer Napper and Susan Becker, have been appointed to leadership positions at separate non-profit organizations that support government-industry partnership. Napper, vice president of Unisys Federal’s Defense Department and intelligence group, has been elected to the board of directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International, Unisys said Wednesday. She […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: New Policies Aim to Advance Partnerships With Satcom Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: New Policies Aim to Advance Partnerships With Satcom Industry

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has highlighted new policies initiated by leaders of the Defense Department and other federal agencies to facilitate partnership with the commercial satellite communications sector and maintain the country’s superiority in space. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Space News op-ed piece published Monday that one of those […] More

  • General Dynamics to Continue Army Mission Command Network Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Continue Army Mission Command Network Support

    General Dynamics‘ information technology unit has received a one-year, $14.9 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Army manage a mission command network. GDIT will extend its network operations and maintenance services at an Army facility in South Korea through July 31, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The service branch will obligate $14.8 million […] More

  • CSRA Promotes IT Vet Matthew McFadden to Cyber Service Area Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Promotes IT Vet Matthew McFadden to Cyber Service Area Director

    Matthew McFadden, former CSRA chief technologist for the Defense Innovation Cell, has been promoted to cybersecurity service area director at the Falls Church, Virginia-based company’s digital consulting group. The 13-year information technology veteran helped deliver services to Defense Department customers and supported the Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy program of CSRA’s Defense Cyber Crime Center in his […] More

  • DoD Taps Autonomous Solutions to Develop AI, Machine Learning Tech for Driverless Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Taps Autonomous Solutions to Develop AI, Machine Learning Tech for Driverless Vehicles

    Autonomous Solutions Inc. has secured additional funds from the Defense Department to further develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies designed to manage the behavior and mobility of autonomous vehicles. ASI said Thursday it supports two other ongoing government-run programs that aim to build machine learning systems such as obstacle classification, light detection and ranging camera fusion […] More

  • ViaSat to Provide Blue Force Tracker Engineering Support to DISA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat to Provide Blue Force Tracker Engineering Support to DISA

    ViaSat has received a one-year, $9.9 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide engineering services for the Blue Force Tracker-2 program. The Defense Department said Friday contract work will include out-of-warranty repairs, satellite ground stations and satellite network control center maintenance, software assurance and Tier 4 to 6 help desk support. BFT-2 is designed […] More

  • Boeing Gets SOCOM Helicopter Engineering Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets SOCOM Helicopter Engineering Task Order

    Boeing has received a potential $27 million task order from the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide non-recurring engineering services ahead of the production of Block 2 MH-47G helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday that Boeing will use the funds to prepare for the manufacturing of MH-47G aircraft using reworked, recapped and salvaged contractor and government furnished components. […] More

  • DoD Looks for New Cyber Tech Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Looks for New Cyber Tech Platforms

    The Defense Department‘s Rapid Reaction Technology Office will hold an event in October in McLean, Virginia to give selected companies an opportunity to showcase technology platforms in the cyber domain. DoD said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it may select companies for pilot projects or experimentation during the Solutions Meeting if their technology offerings meet the department’s […] More

  • Air Force Picks Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney to Build Aircraft Secondary Power Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney to Build Aircraft Secondary Power Systems

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential $12 million contract to Honeywell International and a $15 million contract to United Technologies Corp.‘s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary to research, develop and engineer secondary power systems for multiple types of aircraft. Both contractors will support efforts of the Air Force and U.S. Navy to optimize the safety, reliability and maintainability of secondary […] More

  • Northrop to Maintain E-11A Battlefield Airborne Comms Node for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Maintain E-11A Battlefield Airborne Comms Node for Air Force

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $41.3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force maintain the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node of the military branch’s Bombardier E-11A aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop will also provide logistics support for four Bombardier E-11A planes as well as subsystems and support equipment for overseas contingency operations. E-11A […] More