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  • CenturyLink Network, Managed Services Win 7 Awards at MEF 2017 Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Network, Managed Services Win 7 Awards at MEF 2017 Event

    CenturyLink has received seven awards during the MEF 2017 Awards networking event in Orlando, Florida, which recognized companies’ network and managed services offerings. The company said Friday it secured the awards for its application, service and technology innovation, including software-defined wide-area networking. Andrew Dugan, senior vice president of technology planning, network architecture and security at CenturyLink, […] More

  • Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice

    Davita Vance-Cooks, former head of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, has joined Grant Thornton as a director within the professional services firm’s public sector practice. Vance-Cooks will support the operations transformation and change management efforts of the practice’s civilian business, Grant Thornton said Friday. As GPO director, Vance-Cooks led a modernization strategy to expand public access to digital […] More

  • Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System

    Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch venture spun out of commercial space company Virgin Galactic, has secured a contract to demonstrate its air-launched rocket technology through the Defense Department‘s Space Test Program, TechCrunch reported Thursday. The report said Long Beach, California-based Virgin Orbit expects the LauncherOne prototype flight to take place as early as January 2019. LauncherOne […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Aviall has signed a sales and distribution agreement to offer a suite of Rolls-Royce-made engines to the defense sector. Aviall will market AE 2100 turboprop, AE 3007 turbofan and AE 1107C turboshaft engine variants that are designed to power multiple types of military aircraft, Boeing said Thursday. Eric Strafel, Aviall president and CEO, said the company seeks to help […] More

  • Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Updated Network Key to Agencies’ Cybersecurity, Tech Migration Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Updated Network Key to Agencies’ Cybersecurity, Tech Migration Efforts

    Davis Johnson, vice president of U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said he believes federal agencies should prioritize network modernization when updating their information technology systems. Johnson wrote in a GCN article published Thursday that the adoption of a software-defined wide-area network seeks to help agencies streamline network management and optimize cloud-based applications. He noted that […] More

  • SAP NS2 Plans IT, Cyber Business Expansion in Virginia; Mark Testoni Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2 Plans IT, Cyber Business Expansion in Virginia; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services plans to invest $6 million and create 95 new jobs through expansion of its information technology and cybersecurity business operations in Fairfax County, Virginia. “We are pleased to expand our operations in Fairfax County’s thriving technology corridor,” Mark Testoni, SAP NS2 president and CEO, said in a statement published Thursday. “This area offers us access […] More

  • Zane Burke: Cerner, Leidos & Accenture Could Team Again on VA EHR Rollout; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zane Burke: Cerner, Leidos & Accenture Could Team Again on VA EHR Rollout; Jerry Hogge Comments

    Cerner President Zane Burke has said the health information technology company hopes to retain its partnership with Leidos and Accenture for the delivery of a modernized electronic health record system to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Healthcare IT News reported Thursday. The team known as the “Leidos Partnership for Defense Health” won a potential $9 billion […] More

  • Lockheed Hands Over 5th MUOS Satellite to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands Over 5th MUOS Satellite to Navy

    The U.S. Navy has assumed full operational control of the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite. Lockheed said Thursday the Naval Satellite Operations Center took control of MUOS-5 on Oct. 11 following the satellite’s on-orbit test and the delivery of equipment needed for satellite operations. The MUOS constellation of five satellites is designed to deliver ultra-high frequency satellite […] More

  • Root9B Secures Cybercom Support Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Root9B Secures Cybercom Support Subcontract

    Root9B has received a potential five-year subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to help update the U.S. Cyber Command‘s technology platforms designed for exercise support, operations, planning and training. The Joint Operations Center and Special Programs Support Task Order 2 subcontract covers support for Cybercom and JOC operations at Fort Meade, Maryland, R9B said Thursday. R9B will help the command plan […] More

  • Fluor Completes Power Line in Puerto Rico Under USACE Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor Completes Power Line in Puerto Rico Under USACE Contract

    Fluor has finished construction of a power line in Puerto Rico as part of a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The company said Thursday the 38-kilovolt power line will help restore electricity in an area that includes residential neighborhoods, a hospital and a campus of the University of Puerto Rico. The $240 million USACE task order […] More

  • Cubic Secures $185M London Public Transport Agency Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Secures $185M London Public Transport Agency Support Extension

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has received a three-year, $185 million contract from London’s public transport agency to continue support services for the Oyster fare  payment and contactless ticketing system. Transport for London extended the work of Cubic Transportation Systems as the agency’s revenue collection service provider through 2025 under the agreement, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • Launch of NOAA's New Weather Satellite Postponed to Saturday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Launch of NOAA’s New Weather Satellite Postponed to Saturday

    NASA rescheduled the launch of the first in a series of new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites slated for polar orbit to Saturday from Tuesday. The space agency said Friday NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 will launch aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at […] More