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  • Booz Allen's Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton’s systems delivery organization has achieved Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The CMMI ML 5 status was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated Booz Allen’s implementation of process-based methods in software development, the company said Monday. Gary Labovich, executive vice president at Booz Allen, said the […] More

  • Space News: DARPA Plans Software Development Contracts for Space Operations Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: DARPA Plans Software Development Contracts for Space Operations Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to launch two contracts worth approximately $21.5 million for software development support services under its Hallmark program that aims to provide real-time visualization of space operations, Space News reported Monday. Mike Gruss writes DARPA released an initial solicitation on June 17 to acquire a proof of concept effort that would serve as the foundation of a software […] More

  • Forbes: Roger Krone Kicks Off Town Hall Meetings Ahead of Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forbes: Roger Krone Kicks Off Town Hall Meetings Ahead of Leidos-Lockheed IS&GS Merger

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has begun to conduct town hall” meetings to brief approximately 16,000 employees of Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions business about IS&GS’ impending merger with Leidos, Forbes reported Friday. Loren Thompson writes such efforts by Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016, aim to explain his company’s strategy behind […] More

  • Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments

    Kelly Bissell, former Deloitte cyber risk services lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, has joined Accenture as global managing director of the latter firm’s Accenture Security subsidiary. Accenture said Monday Bissell, who was hired in June, holds 25 years of security industry experience in breach incident response, identity management, privacy and data protection, secure software development and cyber risk […] More

  • NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC Gets CMMI Level 2 Appraisal for Software Development

    Chantilly, Virginia-based information technology services provider NJVC has received Capability Maturity Model Integration level 2 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s approach to software development project management. The CMMI level 2 appraisal suggests that NJVC’s software services business executes projects in accordance with  policy, employs skilled professionals to produce outputs and works to monitor, review and evaluate if projects adhere to process […] More

  • Boeing Picks 6 Small Business Partners to Support ISS Engineering, Technical Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Picks 6 Small Business Partners to Support ISS Engineering, Technical Programs

    Boeing has awarded six small businesses contracts worth a combined $200 million to provide engineering, information technology, software development and mission assurance support services for the International Space Station. S&K Global Solutions, Barrios Technology, ALATEC, Summit Technologies & Solutions, RVMTI JV and All Points Logistics will provide ISS support under the Boeing Engineering and Technical Support Service program, Boeing said […] More

  • Vencore to Offer Software Dev't Services Through GSA 18F Agile BPA Vehicle; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Offer Software Dev’t Services Through GSA 18F Agile BPA Vehicle; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will work to provide software development services to government agencies under the potential $25 million Agile Delivery Services blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services organization. The company said Tuesday the Agile BPA vehicle seeks to facilitate the procurement of digital products and services by government agencies in support of […] More

  • SAIC Lands Army Software Development Training, Simulation Task Order; Jim Scanlon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Lands Army Software Development Training, Simulation Task Order; Jim Scanlon Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. will provide simulation and training support services to special operations military personnel and employees of civilian and federal agencies under a potential five-year, $93 million task order with the U.S. Army. SAIC said Monday the software engineering directorate within the service branch’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center awarded the labor-hour, fixed-price […] More

  • Salient CRGT Lands US Courts Administrative Office IT Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Lands US Courts Administrative Office IT Support Services Contract

    Fairfax, Virginia-based government technology services contractor Salient CRGT has received a $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Courts administrative office’s technology solutions office for research and engineering support services. Salient CRGT said Tuesday the company will also provide IT architecture work to support the administrative office’s tasks that include legislative, legal, financial, technology, management, administrative and program support services. U.S. Courts awarded the twelve month contract with four […] More

  • CGI to Help Develop, Test Software for EPA's Research Org; Tim Hurlebaus Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Help Develop, Test Software for EPA’s Research Org; Tim Hurlebaus Comments

    CGI has secured contracts potentially worth $22 million to help develop, test and implement software applications for the Environmental Protection Agency‘s Office of Research and Development. The company said Wednesday it seeks to its apply agile development, database management and application maintenance experience to support ORD’s administrative and mission management systems. CGI has supported the agency over the past […] More

  • Fulcrum Doubles Task Area Presence on NIH IT Small Business Contract Vehicle; Craig Matthews Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Doubles Task Area Presence on NIH IT Small Business Contract Vehicle; Craig Matthews Comments

    Fulcrum has been awarded five additional task areas as part of a modification to its existing position on a potential 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide contract vehicle for information technology products and services managed by a National Institutes of Health office. The company now competes for work in all 10 areas under the NIH Chief Information […] More

  • Draper Lab Secures Avionics Software Devt Support Contract by NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Secures Avionics Software Devt Support Contract by NASA

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has landed a three-year, $38.7 million contract from NASA to provide avionics software development and operations support services. The Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control and Avionics Technology Development and Analysis II contract covers research, design analysis, simulation, integration, testing and certification services, the space agency said Friday. Draper Laboratory will provide software development support to the […] More