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  • AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office
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    AE Strategies to Support Navy Civilian HR Office

    AE Strategies has won a potential five-year, $20.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of professional services to the Department of the Navy‘s Office of Civilian Human Resources. The company will help DoN OCHR formulate policy and guidance, oversee services and develop and implement information technology plans under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate
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    Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in fiscal year 2020 to design […] More

  • Hill Vet Kevin Cummins Assumes Tech VP Role at PSC
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    Hill Vet Kevin Cummins Assumes Tech VP Role at PSC

    Kevin Cummins, a veteran staffer in the U.S. Senate, has taken a new role as vice president of the Professional Services Council‘s technology practice. Cummins most recently served as senior legislative assistant for Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) and helped craft technology-related legislation such as the Spectrum Relocation Fund Act and Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act. Prior […] More

  • Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum
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    Vencore Presents Internet-of-Things R&D Projects at INSA Forum

    Vencore‘s research arm has showcased three internet-of-things technologies to a group of U.S. government engineers, scientists and technologies at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s 2017 Innovators’ Showcase held in McLean, Virginia. Vencore Labs offered insights into its research efforts in IoT areas such as low-power networks, telematics and smart grid during the forum, the company said […] More

  • CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption
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    CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption

    CSRA will hold a conference call on July 17 with the investment community and government information technology professionals to discuss cloud adoption within the U.S. federal government. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, will facilitate the conference call alongside federal practice leaders from Microsoft and ServiceNow, CSRA said Monday. The call will be publicly accessible through […] More

  • Noblis Awarded $3B National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) IDIQ Contract
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    Noblis Awarded $3B National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) IDIQ Contract

    Noblis, Inc., a nonprofit provider of science, technology, and strategy services to government agencies, has been awarded a $3 billion (ceiling across all five ProTech domains) IDIQ award contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA.) The contract runs through 2022 with a two- year base period and three one- year options and provides program […] More

  • Lockheed, Saab Partner to Build Army Vehicle Crew Training System for Army
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    Lockheed, Saab Partner to Build Army Vehicle Crew Training System for Army

    Lockheed Martin will work with Saab to build an integrated system for the U.S. Army to train crews of the service branch’s tactical vehicles under a potential $288 million contract awarded in April. The team aims to deliver an Instrumentable Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System equipped with Lockheed’s SciosLive platform, the […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking
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    Matt Desch: Iridium ‘NEXT’ Satellite Constellation Supports FAA NextGen Program Through Aircraft Tracking

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation works to help track the location of commercial aircraft across trans-oceanic routes in support of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Next Generation Air Transportation System program, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. Desch said the company has equipped its Iridium NEXT satellites with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receivers designed to enable planes to communicate […] More

  • ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract
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    ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $39 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Combat Direction Systems Activity to help maintain systems on U.S. Navy ships. The company said Friday it will deliver support to NSWCDD’s documentation management function and computer build and installation program under the contract. CDSA works to update and maintain systems on aircraft […] More

  • IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems
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    IBM’s Sam Gordy: Watson AI Helps Army Predict Armored Vehicle Mechanical Problems

    Sam Gordy, general manager of IBM’s federal business, has said the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform works to help the U.S. Army predict mechanical issues in its fleet of Stryker vehicles as part of a pilot program that started in mid-2016. Gordy told FCW in an interview published Friday the Watson supercomputer has helped the service branch […] More

  • Polish Defense Group, Lockheed to Collaborate on Missile Launcher Devt Project
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    Polish Defense Group, Lockheed to Collaborate on Missile Launcher Devt Project

    A consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies intends to start exclusive further negotiations with Lockheed Martin on the development of a mobile artillery missile launcher system for Poland’s armed forces. The Polish Armament Group selected Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System offering as the basis of the country’s Homar program, the company said Friday. The program […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell CompassCom’s Fleet Management Tools to Public Sector
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    Carahsoft to Resell CompassCom’s Fleet Management Tools to Public Sector

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a value-added reseller of CompassCom Software’s fleet management platforms to the public sector through Carahsoft’s spot on the General Services Administration’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle. Carahsoft said Friday it will offer CompassCom’s Geographic Information System, Global Navigation Satellite System, Mobile Resource Management tool and other wireless platforms to federal customers under […] More