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  • Lockheed Secures Air Force F-16 Engineering, Technical Services Contract
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    Lockheed Secures Air Force F-16 Engineering, Technical Services Contract

    Lockheed Martin has landed a potential $47.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform engineering and technical services in support of F-16 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed aims to expand the technical expertise of F-16 system maintainers through the contract. Work will occur in Utah, Ohio, Arizona, South Carolina, Bahrain, Pakistan, Chile, Jordan, […] More

  • LinTech to Provide IT Support to DoD Office of Inspector General
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    LinTech to Provide IT Support to DoD Office of Inspector General

    LinTech Global has won a potential five-year $48.4 million contract to support information technology functions within the Defense Department‘s Office of the Inspector General. DoD said Monday its education activity received 19 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive acquisition process. The contract’s base period is valued at $9.5 million and will run through Aug. 31, […] More

  • Knight Point Systems Promotes GovCon Vet Darin Stolte to Service Delivery VP
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    Knight Point Systems Promotes GovCon Vet Darin Stolte to Service Delivery VP

    Darin Stolte, formerly a general manager at Knight Point Systems, has been promoted to vice president of service delivery at the Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor. Stolte will oversee contracts staff and general managers as he works to monitor project metrics on a monthly basis and facilitate service delivery across the company’s contracts, Knight […] More

  • DSA Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List; Fran Pierce Comments
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    DSA Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List; Fran Pierce Comments

    Data Systems Analysts has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 U.S. fastest-growing companies for the ninth time. The Trevose, Pennsylvania-based information technology services contractor ranked 3517th on the magazine’s 2017 list and recorded 88 percent in sales growth over a three-year period, DSA said in an Aug. 16 news release. The company also made […] More

  • MCP Named Sole Awardee of GSA BPA to Supply Dell Products to Agencies
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    MCP Named Sole Awardee of GSA BPA to Supply Dell Products to Agencies

    Millennium Computer Products has been awarded by the General Services Administration a one-year blanket purchase agreement as the sole supplier of Dell hardware to the government. The BPA works to facilitate the government’s purchases of Dell products such as desktops, monitors, laptops and tablets with standard preconfiguration and optional upgrades through a business model designed to lower […] More

  • Teresa Carlson: AWS to Increase Cloud Infrastructure Investment in Australia
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    Teresa Carlson: AWS to Increase Cloud Infrastructure Investment in Australia

    Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has said the company’s Australian operations will receive infrastructure upgrades to meet anticipated customer demand, The Australian Financial Review reported Monday. Carlson told the publication that AWS constantly evolves its cloud infrastructure in Australia as part of efforts to “innovate ahead of demand […] More

  • Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi
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    Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Patriot Shipping a $3.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to transport the damaged guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald to Pascagoula, Mississippi, for repairs. The company will heavy-lift the ship from Yokosuka, Japan, to Pascagoula to undergo repairs by Huntington Ingalls Industries, the Navy said Friday. USS Fitzgerald suffered damages as a result of its collision with […] More

  • Army Wants Info on Financial Mgmt System Sources
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    Army Wants Info on Financial Mgmt System Sources

    The U.S. Army seeks information on industry sources of an integrated information and financial management system that can support the Army headquarters’ G-8 force development directorate and other agencies. The Army said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that the integrated system should feature fiscal programming; budget and execution; and equipment modeling functions to support force modernization […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils Monitoring Tool for Agencies on Azure Government Cloud
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    Microsoft Unveils Monitoring Tool for Agencies on Azure Government Cloud

    Microsoft has released a monitoring and analytics tool on the Azure Government cloud environment to help government agencies assess the state and performance of various resources. Tom Keane, head of global infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, said in a blog post published Wednesday that the Azure Monitor platform helps users troubleshoot resources as well as evaluate […] More

  • CSRA Cyber Institute Gets CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner Designation
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    CSRA Cyber Institute Gets CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner Designation

    The Computing Technology Industry Association has accredited CSRA‘s Cyber Institute as an authorized delivery partner. CSRA said Friday its Cyber Institute offers training for networks and systems development, maintenance, analysis and defense to commercial and government customers. The CompTIA authorization is given to training organizations that offer at least one CompTIA certification course; uses CompTIA-approved quality content; and employ […] More

  • DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based ‘Chiplets’ Devt Program
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    DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based ‘Chiplets’ Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held a kickoff meeting with approximately 100 participants from commercial, academic and military sectors for the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property Reuse Strategies program. The CHIPS program aims to create a community of technologists and researchers as well as establish a technological framework designed to facilitate the segregation of […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
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    Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has kicked off the construction of the U.S. Navy‘s third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia. The company said Thursday that it cut a 35-ton steel plate as part of the construction of USS Enterprise (CVN 80), the ninth Navy ship to bear its name. […] More