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  • Sikorsky Receives $85M FMS Contract Modification From Army for Black Hawk Retrofitting
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    Sikorsky Receives $85M FMS Contract Modification From Army for Black Hawk Retrofitting

    Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received an $85 million modification to a foreign military sale contract from the U.S. Army to restore Mexico’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to full operations. Sikorsky will conduct the retrofitting of the helicopters in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a planned end date of April 2019, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army […] More

  • Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community
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    Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community

    Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday. George Hoyem, an investments partner at […] More

  • Nika Selected as Architect-Engineer Support Representative for New Weed Army Community Hospital
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    Nika Selected as Architect-Engineer Support Representative for New Weed Army Community Hospital

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded Nika a four-year, $10 million to provide architect-engineer support representative services during the construction of the future Weed Army Community Hospital in Fort Irwin, California. Nika will provide multidisciplinary personnel and full-time on-site representatives such as mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, cost estimators, commissioning managers and master schedulers as the company oversees major construction work on […] More

  • Lockheed Secures FAA Contract for Air Traffic Radar System Technical Support
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    Lockheed Secures FAA Contract for Air Traffic Radar System Technical Support

    The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a five-year, $28.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin to provide technical support for air traffic control radar systems. Lockheed said Tuesday it will perform analysis, design, development and test services for the Microprocessor-En Route Automated Radar Tracking System as part of the contract. Micro-EARTS works to receive and integrate air traffic data from multiple surveillance systems and display the […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal
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    Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments
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    Lockheed Martin Completes Review of Satellites for Saudi Arabia; Carl Marchetto Comments

    Lockheed Martin has concluded the critical design review for two satellites intended to support television, internet, telephone and communications services in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Lockheed, Arab Satellite Communications Organization and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology reviewed the technical specifications of Arabsat 6A and Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, Lockheed said Tuesday. The two satellites are […] More

  • Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement
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    Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement

    The U.S. Navy is considering changing its procurement strategy for the Next Generation Enterprise Network program from a sole-source method to a multiple-award contracting model, SIGNAL Magazine reported Wednesday. Robert Ackerman writes Capt. Michael Abreu, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said the Navy seeks to engage with vendors in order to determine if segmentation of NGEN offerings would help the military branch address future information technology requirements. A […] More

  • GSA to Host Workshop on Cybersecurity National Action Plan
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    GSA to Host Workshop on Cybersecurity National Action Plan

    The General Services Administration plans to conduct a workshop on the Cybersecurity National Action Plan at GSA’s headquarters in Washington on June 13. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it will discuss at the event the continuous diagnostics and mitigation/continuous monitoring-as-a-service program, acquisition strategy in support of CNAP as well as the results of […] More

  • Noel Allender Joins Leidos as Epic Practice Managing Director
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    Noel Allender Joins Leidos as Epic Practice Managing Director

    Noel Allender, formerly Jacobus Consulting senior managing director for delivery services, has been named as the new managing director of Leidos‘ Epic practice. Allender will handle sales and business expansion opportunities for professional services and health IT consulting and drive collaboration with business leaders and partners in service delivery, Leidos said Tuesday. “Noel has a fruitful […] More

  • Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments
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    Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons will provide engineering services as well as research and development support to the Naval Research Laboratory’s information technology division under a potential five-year, $245 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in May. The company said Tuesday it will work to support NRL-ITD across seven research areas that include artificial intelligence, data storage and computing, communications, security, […] More

  • Marc-Andre Giger Joins KPMG Switzerland as Public Sector Chief
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    Marc-Andre Giger Joins KPMG Switzerland as Public Sector Chief

    Marc-Andre Giger, formerly director of public sector and health at PwC Switzerland, has joined KPMG as head of the public sector in Switzerland, effective June 1. Giger will succeed Armin Haymoz in the role and will serve the auditing firm’s public sector customers through its office in Bern, Switzerland, KPMG said Monday. Prior to PwC, […] More

  • CMS, FDA Vet Mark McClellan Joins American Well as Advisory Board Vice Chairman; Ido Schoenberg Comments
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    CMS, FDA Vet Mark McClellan Joins American Well as Advisory Board Vice Chairman; Ido Schoenberg Comments

    Mark McClellan, director of the Health Policy Center at Duke University, has joined telehealth technology and services company American Well as vice chairman of the advisory board. McClellan previously served as director of the Health Care Innovation and Value initiatives at Brookings Institution and managed the Richard Merkin program on payment reform and clinical leadership, […] More