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  • Lockheed to Help Build, Integrate ExxonMobil's Automation Control System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Build, Integrate ExxonMobil’s Automation Control System

    Lockheed Martin has received multiple contracts from ExxonMobil to design, build and integrate an automation control system to support the international oil and gas company’s plant operations. Both companies have worked to develop a proof-of-concept system as part of a joint initiative that began two years ago, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the PoC phase, Lockheed also produced a base design and […] More

  • Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ

    Northrop Grumman has landed a potential $75 million  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help Saudi Arabia’s warfighters simulate threats with a company-built Joint Threat Emitter system. JTE is designed to generate a battlespace environment that facilitates training of military personnel to identify and address enemy missile and artillery threats, Northrop said Thursday. The company developed the system to be reprogrammable […] More

  • Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities

    Corps Solutions has received a $44.4 million contract from to provide support services to U.S. Marine Corps range control facilities. The Defense Department said Thursday that USMC will obligate $6.8 million in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds for the first delivery order under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will conduct base work at locations in Arizona, Virginia, California, Georgia, Hawaii, […] More

  • CSRA to Provide Google, AWS Cloud Services to Federal University Under BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Provide Google, AWS Cloud Services to Federal University Under BPA

    CSRA has received a potential five-year, $8.5 million blanket purchase agreement to provide cloud computing services to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. The company said Thursday it will provide USU access to Google‘s cloud offering, G Suite and Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform through the BPA that has a base term and four option years. Larry […] More

  • Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators

    Boeing has received a potential $20.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators designed to target concrete bunkers and tunnels. The service branch will obligate the full contract amount from its fiscal 2016 production funds at the time of award and the company will perform work through July 31, 2020, […] More

  • Sprint to Offer Converged Wireless Comms Portfolio to Federal & Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sprint to Offer Converged Wireless Comms Portfolio to Federal & Public Sector

    Sprint will provide the federal and public sector with a portfolio of converged wireless, internet of things, security and wireline platforms through its communications network. Chris Felix, a 27-year telecommunications industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of government solutions at Sprint, to oversee the delivery of converged wireless platforms to federal government clients, the […] More

  • Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chenega-Iron Mountain Team to Help Manage Prisons Bureau Records; Michael Lewis Comments

    A team of Iron Mountain and Chenega Corp.‘s applied solutions subsidiary has received a five-year contract for offsite records management storage and services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Both companies will help BOP manage, transport, digitize, shred and provide special project services for records containing personal, medical and parole information on inmates, Iron Mountain said Thursday. The contract […] More

  • Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium

    Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms and discuss how they use new tools to build technology platforms designed to address space challenges. Dario Zamarian, group president of Maxar’s SSL business, discussed how the business […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has received the 39th Howard Hughes Memorial Award from the Aero Club of Southern California in recognition of her accomplishments as an aerospace industry executive. Lockheed said Thursday the Howard Hughes Memorial Award was established in 1978 and is presented annually to an aerospace leader who has “significantly” contributed to […] More

  • Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role

    James Mackie, former director of the Treasury Department‘s Office of Tax Analysis, has joined Ernst and Young as co-director of the company’s quantitative economics and statistics group. The more than 30-year Treasury veteran will lead the Washington, D.C.-based QUEST group with  Robert Carroll, said Thursday. In his previous role, Mackie led OTA’s efforts to analyze and produce reports on […] More

  • LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board

    David Zolet, CEO of management consulting firm LMI, has been appointed to the First Responder Network Authority’s board of directors. Zolet will serve a three-year term on the board that oversees FirstNet’s work with AT&T to build and run a national broadband network for first responders, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross […] More

  • Accenture Gets VA Loan Oversight System Upgrade Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Gets VA Loan Oversight System Upgrade Order

    Accenture has won a potential 57-month, $29 million task order to modernize a system the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to manage VA-guaranteed loans for former military personnel. The company said Thursday its federal services business will update current VA Office of Information and Technology systems to include new web-interface and integration tools designed to automatically load events and updates […] More