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  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ginger Wierzbanowski, VP of Intelligence Solutions at Northrop Grumman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ginger Wierzbanowski, VP of Intelligence Solutions at Northrop Grumman

    “While the battle space is constantly changing, our focus remains dedicated to helping our customers achieve mission success. We are providing them the ability to operate in a trusted, digital environment that enables decision advantage.” EM: Can you tell our readers about your background and how it prepared you for the challenges you face today […] More

  • Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract

    Altamira Technologies has secured a five-year, $18 million contract to perform classified full life cycle development, engineering and sustainment work on a mission critical system that supports the U.S. intelligence community. The company said Friday the contract will expand the company’s portfolio in Chantilly, Virginia, the reach of its business in other mission areas. “This award represents a deepening relationship with one of […] More

  • MDA, DoD Ink Security Control Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA, DoD Ink Security Control Agreement

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has signed a security control agreement with the Defense Department in a push to pursue opportunities in the U.S. government and defense markets. The agreement would help MDA seek security clearance for its operations at its Palo Alto, California-based facility as part of the implementation of the company’s growth strategy, MDA said Thursday. […] More

  • KeyW Chosen for AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Doug Worthington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyW Chosen for AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Doug Worthington Comments

    KeyW will join Amazon Web Services‘ Public Sector Partner Program to support the former’s information collection, processing, evaluation and dissemination offerings for the intelligence, cyber and counterterrorism sectors. The companies have previously partnered to transfer a specialized system from an intelligence community customer to the commercial AWS cloud platform, KeyW said Tuesday. Doug Worthington, vice president […] More

  • Parsons Establishes San Antonio Tech Office to Support Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Establishes San Antonio Tech Office to Support Govt Clients

    Parsons held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to mark the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot technology office in San Antonio, Texas, that will support  cybersecurity and intelligence efforts of the company’s government customers. The company said Monday the office includes 2,600 square feet of project space designed to help address intelligence community security requirements. The facility also has visualization conference and huddle […] More

  • Andrew Merkle to Lead Research & Exploratory Devt Mission Area at Johns Hopkins APL - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Merkle to Lead Research & Exploratory Devt Mission Area at Johns Hopkins APL

    Andrew Merkle, a 16-year veteran of the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named mission area executive for research and exploratory development at APL. He began his career at APL as an engineer within the technical services department and later moved to the national security department, where he helped establish the lab’s Biomechanics and Injury Mitigation Systems program, APL said Wednesday. […] More

  • OGSystems to Help Update Navy's Center for Security Forces Training Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems to Help Update Navy’s Center for Security Forces Training Programs

    OGSystems has received a $3.8 million contract to provide new technology and approaches in support of efforts to modernize training programs at the U.S. Navy‘s Center for Security Forces. The company said Monday it will employ immersive engineering, lean startup and agile methods, as well as utilize virtual and augmented reality platforms to help transform the Navy’s training […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More

  • Cohesity's Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cohesity’s Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification

    Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More

  • Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets DARPA Contract Modification for Counterfeit IC Detection Microchip

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $7.2 million contract modification to begin work on the second phase of the Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program. The modification exercises the initial option to a previously awarded contract with a 21-month base term and brings the total contract value from $12.3 million […] More

  • John Mancuso Joins PAR Technology's Govt Systems Business as Mission Systems BD Senior Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Mancuso Joins PAR Technology’s Govt Systems Business as Mission Systems BD Senior Director

    John Mancuso, former director of business development at Sciolex, has joined PAR Technology subsidiary PAR Government Systems Corp. as senior director of business development for mission systems. Mancuso will report to PGSC President Matt Cicchinelli and be responsible for business development initiatives in the unit’s core and adjacent market areas, PAR said Wednesday. “John’s experience qualifying and capturing opportunities in […] More

  • IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to hold a Proposers Day on Aug. in Washington to discuss a program to develop multimodal sensors IARPA wants to help assess individuals across a range of factors. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the event aims to answer questions on the Multimodal Objective Sensing to Assess Individuals with Context program that seeks to […] More