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  • Navy Taps Boeing’s Insitu for ScanEagle UAS Support Services to Iraq
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    Navy Taps Boeing’s Insitu for ScanEagle UAS Support Services to Iraq

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $8.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide spares, related equipment and other support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system. The Navy awarded the firm-fixed-price delivery contract in support of Iraq’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Insitu will perform work in Bingen, Washington […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA
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    Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA

    Orbital ATK will supply medium-range ballistic missile target rockets to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential four-year, $182 million contract awarded in July. The company will provide the rockets to support tests of missile defense platforms under the MDA contract that covers the production of the third type of configuration for the agency’s medium-range […] More

  • DLA Exercises IronPlanet Surplus Asset Sale Contract Option; Jeff Holmes Comments
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    DLA Exercises IronPlanet Surplus Asset Sale Contract Option; Jeff Holmes Comments

    IronPlanet will continue to manage and sell the Defense Logistics Agency’s surplus trucks, heavy equipment and other assets after DLA exercised the first option year under a six-year contract. The exercised option comes after DLA awarded the Commercial Venture 4-Rolling Stock contract to the company in July 2014, IronPlanet said Monday. Jeff Holmes, senior vice […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Biological Building Materials Development Program
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Biological Building Materials Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a program that aims to create new materials that exhibit the characteristics of living systems as well as the structural attributes of building materials. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement published Friday on FedBizOpps the Engineered Living Materials program seeks to develop […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021
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    Frost & Sullivan: US Hospital Cybersecurity Market to See 13.6% CAGR Through 2021

    A Frost & Sullivan analysis forecasts the market for cybersecurity platforms fielded by U.S. hospitals to experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 percent from 2016 through 2021. Healthcare organizations that seek to address the rising cases of data breaches and other cyber attacks amid the widespread adoption of electronic health records will drive the demand […] More

  • Fidelity Technologies Gets Accreditation for Joint Fire Training Product Line
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    Fidelity Technologies Gets Accreditation for Joint Fire Training Product Line

    Fidelity Technologies has received a memorandum of agreement certification for its virtual simulation product line designed for use in joint terminal attack controller training. The company said Friday the joint fire support executive steering committee granted the MOA accreditation after the Fidelity Fires product line met the 2015 JTAC Joint Mission Essential Task List training […] More

  • Liberty IT Solutions Subcontracts Northrop for VA Health IT Support Contract
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    Liberty IT Solutions Subcontracts Northrop for VA Health IT Support Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a subcontract from Liberty IT Solutions to provide health information technology support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Northrop will collaborate with Liberty IT to support the department’s MyVA program, which seeks to change the way VA serves veterans through the use of IT platforms, under a potential 10-year, $22.3 […] More

  • Force 3 Lands IT Supply BPAs from Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative Under 3 Contract Vehicles
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    Force 3 Lands IT Supply BPAs from Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative Under 3 Contract Vehicles

    Sirius Computer Solutions‘ Force 3 subsidiary has secured three blanket purchase agreements from the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative to provide information technology products and services to federal agencies. Force 3 said Thursday it won the three BPAs through the Chief Information Officer-Commodities and Solutions, General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 and Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicles. The company […] More

  • MTSI to Develop Threat Characterization Platform for Missile Defense Agency
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    MTSI to Develop Threat Characterization Platform for Missile Defense Agency

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has won a potential three-year, $9 million contract to design, prototype and test an integrated threat characterization system for the Missile Defense Agency. The cost-reimbursement contract covers data verification, environmental and contextual classification, data exploitation and association, and cognitive fusion framework in support of the development of the Robust Adaptive Threat […] More

  • Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments
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    Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments

    Lockheed Martin has changed the name of its mission systems and training business area in an effort to demonstrate the company’s expanded portfolio after it completed the acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp. for approximately $9 billion in November. The business area will start to operate as Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business segment […] More

  • NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1
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    NASA Issues RFP for Novel Aerospace Tech Platforms Under NIAC Program Phase 1

    NASA has asked industry to submit proposals for the initial phase of a program that seeks to develop novel platforms designed for future aerospace missions. The space agency said Wednesday it will award $125,000 in grants over a nine-month period to selected projects under Phase 1 of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program. NASA will select up to […] More

  • Carahsoft’s John Lee: SEWP Contract Vehicle Key to Agencies’ Cloud Tech Adoption
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    Carahsoft’s John Lee: SEWP Contract Vehicle Key to Agencies’ Cloud Tech Adoption

    John Lee, vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft Technology, has said federal agencies should use NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle to buy information technology products and services in order to facilitate their transition to cloud computing environments. Lee wrote in an article published Tuesday that agencies can also leverage SEWP’s statements of work in order to […] More