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  • John Dancy: CSRA to Migrate Workload to Microsoft Azure Government Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Dancy: CSRA to Migrate Workload to Microsoft Azure Government Cloud

    CSRA will transfer its workload to Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud platform under a three-year enterprise agreement between the two companies. The deal also allows CSRA to use Microsoft’s Office 365 software platform for the cloud environment, CSRA said Monday. John Dancy, chief information officer of CSRA, said the company aims to operate 70 percent of its applications […] More

  • Boeing Receives Saudi F-15 Radar Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Receives Saudi F-15 Radar Contract Modification

    Boeing has been awarded an $18.3 million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force to supply AN/APG-63(V) 3 radar for the Saudi Arabian air force’s F-15SA aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday work will primarily occur in Forest, Mississippi, through March 31, 2017. The modification falls under a foreign military sales agreement between the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia. Boeing-built F-15 jets serve as […] More

  • Cotton and Company Awarded DoD Financial Statement Audit Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cotton and Company Awarded DoD Financial Statement Audit Contract

    Alexandria, Virginia-based audit and accounting firm Cotton and Company has won an $18.8 million contract to examine the financial statements of the Defense Department. The Defense and Finance Accounting Service received three quotes for the labor-hour financial statement audit services contract via a competitive bidding process, the Pentagon said Monday. The contract has a 12-month base period that runs through Dec. […] More

  • Raytheon Awarded Navy Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Awarded Navy Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor Support Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $50 million contract to provide hardware and support services to the military branch’s Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor  program. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity hybrid contract covers production, engineering, procurement and in-service engineering agent to support the program executive office for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence ESRP, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Army Taps Black Box to Support Ukraine Security Assistance Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Black Box to Support Ukraine Security Assistance Program

    Black Box has secured a $22.7 million contract from the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems to support a security assistance program of Ukraine’s defense ministry. Black Box said Thursday PEO EIS’ office of Foreign Military Sales for Ukraine’s ministry of defense awarded the contract in support of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative […] More

  • Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems

    The U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center has awarded Eaton a contract to support the modernization of supervisory control and data acquisition systems installed at U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps facilities in San Diego, California. Eaton said Tuesday it will supply equipment and provide project management, labor, engineering, supervision and transportation services to help the Naval […] More

  • Army Picks Direct Steel for Lockmaster, Maintenance Facility Construction Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks Direct Steel for Lockmaster, Maintenance Facility Construction Project

    Direct Steel has won a potential 14-month, $10.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct a maintenance building, fire pump house and a lockmaster facility at Olmsted Lock and Dam in Illinois. The Army Corps of Engineers received five proposals for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate the full contract amount from the service branch’s fiscal […] More

  • Viavi Solutions to Supply Navy With Telecom Test Set - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viavi Solutions to Supply Navy With Telecom Test Set

    Viavi Solutions has received a potential five-year, $26.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide a telecommunication test set to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday that Viavi will perform work in California and Mexico under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract has a three-year base period will run through Feb. 1, 2020, and two one-year options. DLA’s land and […] More

  • Intelligent Software Solutions Offers Cybersecurity & Accreditation Services to Gov't Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelligent Software Solutions Offers Cybersecurity & Accreditation Services to Gov’t Contractors

    Intelligent Software Solutions has begun to offer cybersecurity and accreditation services to companies that look to secure work under U.S. government contracts. ISS said Wednesday its services include full assessment, road map and implementation support using a Risk Management Framework process. David Coker, vice president for business informatics at ISS, said the company’s accreditation and authorization services for […] More

  • Vocera Communication Platform Added to DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vocera Communication Platform Added to DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List

    The Defense Department has certified and added Vocera Communications‘ integrated clinical communication system comprised of software and wearable badge to DoD’s Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. Vocera said Thursday its UC APL certification offers DoD facilities an option to acquire and implement the Vocera Communication System on department networks. The company also updated the speech engine and functionality in its software platform to comply with the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s […] More

  • DoD Adds Pulse Secure's UC Tech to DISA-Approved Products List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Adds Pulse Secure’s UC Tech to DISA-Approved Products List

    Pulse Secure has obtained certification from the Defense Department to offer network access control and mobile virtual private network platforms to DoD customers. The company said Tuesday DoD added the Pulse Connect Secure 8.2 mobile VPN and Pulse Policy Secure 5.3 NAC tool to the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List following a certification process run by the Defense Information Systems Agency. […] More

  • DoD Puts Fortinet Firewall on Commercial Solutions for Classified Programs Components List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Puts Fortinet Firewall on Commercial Solutions for Classified Programs Components List

    The Defense Department has added Fortinet’s firewall to the Commercial Solutions for Classified Programs Components List that authorizes the implementation of the platform in government networks that store highly sensitive data. Fortinet said Wednesday its FortiGate Enterprise Firewall secured the CSfC Components List status after DoD validated the platform against three Common Criteria Protection Profiles that seek […] More