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A General Dynamics subsidiary and Epsilon Systems Solutions have won positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide hyperbaric systems support services at Defense Department-run facilities worldwide. DoD said Monday that Epsilon and General Dynamics’ information technology business can vie for task orders to design, build, inspect, maintain, repair, overhaul and install recompression chamber, diver training, escape trainer, surface […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a potential $21.4 contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modernization, repair and maintenance work on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has an initial value of $14.1 million and covers the ship’s fiscal 2017 extended selected restricted availability. Work will occur at Huntington Ingalls’ facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential five-year, $34 million contract to ICF International to help the Defense Department identify strategies to increase the resiliency of DoD assets as well as examine potential risks to infrastructure at various U.S. military installations worldwide. ICF said Tuesday it will perform risk assessments on physical and cyber systems at DoD facilities globally, conduct studies on the resilience […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Water Energy Technologies have jointly developed a laundry system designed to help reduce water consumption for commercial laundry operations. The treatment system processes and recycles 90 percent of grey water from laundry operations through an integrated ozone technology and water recycling system, CTC said Thursday. “We look forward to combining the […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants information on ideas and approaches that could help develop interactive simulation platforms that will work to validate social science research methods. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated DARPA eyes simulations or “forensic social science supercolliders” that could help evaluate social science research methods for using “strong inference” to identify factors that lead to particular human behaviors and […] More

CSRA has won a five-year, $53 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical assistance services to the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization. The company said Monday it will continue to perform analysis, assessments, technology demonstrations, wargames and exercises meant to help the agency shape concepts, requirements and operational architectures under the recompete contract. “The Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense’s challenge […] More

Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

Conrad Shipyard will build a welded steel barge to support floating crane services of the Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District under a $17.7 million firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday USACE received one bid for the procurement effort via the Internet and obligated the full contract amount from the Army’s fiscal 2016 operations […] More

Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More