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  • 4 Firms Win Spots on DoD POL Facility Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ
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    4 Firms Win Spots on DoD POL Facility Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ

    Four companies have won positions on a potential $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide architectural and engineering services for Defense Department petroleum, oil and lubricant facilities. DoD said Wednesday the service branch received 21 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and subsequently made a total of 13 awards. The four initial awardees are AMEC Foster Wheeler […] More

  • ASRC Federal CEO Mark Gray Named Greater Washington Region Heart Walk Chair
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    ASRC Federal CEO Mark Gray Named Greater Washington Region Heart Walk Chair

    Mark Gray, president and CEO of ASRC Federal, has been appointed by the American Heart Association as chair of the 2018 Greater Washington Region Heart Walk. “AHA and the broad government contracting community work tirelessly together to raise funds for, and awareness of, cardiovascular-related illnesses,” Gray said in a statement published Feb. 13. “In November […] More

  • BayFirst Solutions Lands Spot on GSA’s $15B Alliant 2 SB Contract; Kevin Gooch Comments
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    BayFirst Solutions Lands Spot on GSA’s $15B Alliant 2 SB Contract; Kevin Gooch Comments

    BayFirst Solutions will offer information technology services to federal agencies through the small business track of a potential 10-year, $15 billion governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. The General Services Administration selected BayFirst as one of 81 companies that will compete for task orders under the Alliant 2 SB contract. Kevin Gooch, BayFirst CEO, said in a statement released Wednesday […] More

  • Retired Army Gen. John Campbell Named NS2 Serves Chairman
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    Retired Army Gen. John Campbell Named NS2 Serves Chairman

    John Campbell, a retired U.S. Army general, has been named chairman of a SAP National Security Services-backed nonprofit organization. He will succeed Joseph Kernan, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral who was confirmed by the Senate as defense undersecretary for intelligence in November, as chairman of NS2 Serves, the nonprofit organization said Wednesday. Campbell will […] More

  • Michelle McCarthy Named Mercury Systems VP, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller
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    Michelle McCarthy Named Mercury Systems VP, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller

    Michelle McCarthy, former corporate controller at Analog Devices, has joined defense electronics manufacturer Mercury Systems as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller. Mercury Systems said Tuesday McCarthy will report to Chief Financial Officer Michael Ruppert and oversee the company’s financial reporting, accounting and tax operations. The certified public accountant previously served as corporate financial reporting manager at J. Jill and manager […] More

  • Kratos Books $81M US Govt Order for Unmanned Drone Systems, C3 Services
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    Kratos Books $81M US Govt Order for Unmanned Drone Systems, C3 Services

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a potential five-year, $81 million contract to supply unmanned drone systems to a U.S. government agency. The company said Tuesday it will also provide command, control and communications services to the customer agency through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said the company’s unmanned systems division […] More

  • HPE Secures $57M in Contracts to Provide Air Force, Navy Supercomputers
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    HPE Secures $57M in Contracts to Provide Air Force, Navy Supercomputers

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won two contracts worth a combined $57 million to provide supercomputers to the U.S. Navy and Air Force Research Laboratory as part of the Defense Department‘s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. HPE said Tuesday it will deliver four HPE SGI 8600 computer systems to AFRL’s DoD Supercomputing Resource Center and another three to the Navy’s DSRC. […] More

  • Lockheed Intros Multi-UAV Control Platform; John Molberg Comments
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    Lockheed Intros Multi-UAV Control Platform; John Molberg Comments

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new software platform designed to help operators manage various unmanned aircraft vehicles simultaneously during intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. VCSi is engineered to support operation of multiple dissimilar vehicles at once and modular customization based on mission requirements, the company said Tuesday. John Molberg, manager of business development at Lockheed’s CDL systems unit, […] More

  • Elbit-Rockwell Collins JV to Integrate Helmet Display System for South Korea’s F-16
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    Elbit-Rockwell Collins JV to Integrate Helmet Display System for South Korea’s F-16

    A joint venture between Elbit Systems‘ America business and Rockwell Collins‘ ESA Vision Systems subsidiary has received a task to integrate a helmet-mounted display system to F-16 aircraft within South Korea’s air force. The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System II will be configured to provide situational awareness and identification display on friendly, enemy and unknown targets for day and […] More

  • Globecomm Joins AWS Partner Network
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    Globecomm Joins AWS Partner Network

    Globecomm has been designated as a “Standard Technology Partner” within Amazon Web Services‘ Partner Network. The partnership authorizes Globecomm to integrate its global satellite and fiber network with AWS’ storage, computing and cloud content delivery services, Globecomm said Tuesday. The telecommunications company can also provision clients’ content, work processes and network connectivity into AWS and give existing […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Arabsat Comms Satellite
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    Lockheed Tests Arabsat Comms Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has started a testing a communications satellite that the company currently develops for Saudi Arabia-based satellite operator Arabsat. Lockheed said Tuesday the Arabsat-6A satellite will undergo a series of tests at the company’s Sunnyvale, California facility to validate whether the spacecraft is ready to operate in orbit. Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkheyour said Arabsat-6A will join […] More

  • NASA Sets GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch for March 1
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    NASA Sets GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch for March 1

    NASA has announced the launch date of a second weather satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series as March 1. GOES-S will lift off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s 41st Space Launch Complex in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said Wednesday. The  Lockheed […] More