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  • Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract
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    Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract

    The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a BlackBerry division a potential four-year contract to help the agency expand deployment of a suite of crisis communications applications at the Defense Department. AtHoc said Tuesday its Networked Crisis Communications Suite will support about 37,000 users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Security Services and the Washington Headquarters Services. “Their […] More

  • VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments
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    VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments

    Royal Philips has secured grant funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore location-aware assisted technologies for the VA as part of an effort to aid veterans with mild cognitive impairments. The company said Thursday it will research an ambient assisted living technology that equips traditional homes with sensors, actuators, interfaces and artificial intelligence to help address veterans’ […] More

  • Schafer Forms Commercial Space Situational Awareness Business Unit Under New VP, GM Donald Greiman
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    Schafer Forms Commercial Space Situational Awareness Business Unit Under New VP, GM Donald Greiman

    Schafer Corp. has established a commercial space situational awareness business unit that will be led by Donald Greiman, a former National Air and Space Intelligence Center vice commander for the U.S. Air Force. Greiman will serve as vice president and general manager for CSSA and work with former astronaut Mark Brown to lead a team that will support Schafer’s space situational […] More

  • CACI Receives Navy Contract Extension for Warfare Systems Program Office Support; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Receives Navy Contract Extension for Warfare Systems Program Office Support; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a five-year, $50 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide program and financial management support services to the center’s warfare systems program office. The company said Tuesday it will continue to support the business functions of WSPO as well as help the office implement new war room information technology systems and document management tools. […] More

  • George Washington University & IBM Start Cyber, Homeland Security Task Forces
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    George Washington University & IBM Start Cyber, Homeland Security Task Forces

    George Washington University and IBM have established four task forces to support GWU’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security unit’s efforts to deliver research and analysis on cyber, homeland security and counterterrorism policies. John Lainhart and Christopher Ballister from the IBM Center for the Business of Government wrote in a blog post published Friday that CCHS works to address cyber and homeland security […] More

  • Centerra to Extend Facility Maintenance Support for DOE Power Marketing Org
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    Centerra to Extend Facility Maintenance Support for DOE Power Marketing Org

    Centerra Group has been awarded a five-year contract to provide facilities maintenance services to an Energy Department organization that markets and distributes electricity in the Pacific Northwest. The company said Friday the contract with DOE’s Bonneville Power Administration is scheduled to run through 2021. BPA sells wholesale power from 31 federally-backed hydroelectric power stations located in the Columbia River Basin, one non-federal nuclear […] More

  • InfoReliance to Provide Amazon Web Services Cloud Systems to Justice Dept, GAO
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    InfoReliance to Provide Amazon Web Services Cloud Systems to Justice Dept, GAO

    InfoReliance will provide Amazon Web Services infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud systems to the Justice Department and Government Accountability Office under a prime contract with DOJ.. The technology consulting firm said Friday the IaaS and PaaS offerings will work to facilitate security and service delivery for development, testing, quality assurance and production operations. The contract with DOJ also covers several multi-day […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Development, Tests on Japan’s Aegis Computer Systems
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    Lockheed to Continue Development, Tests on Japan’s Aegis Computer Systems

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $33 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification to sustain test and development services for Japan’s Aegis modernization baseline computer programs and equipment. The award exercises options on a previous contract to support the Japanese maritime self-defense force’s efforts to update Atago-class destroyers from Baseline 7 Phase 1R to Advanced Capability Build 12 with Technology Insertion […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Move KC-46 Tanker Production Decision to August
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    Boeing, Air Force Move KC-46 Tanker Production Decision to August

    The U.S. Air Force has rescheduled production decision for the KC-46 tanker program from June to August 2016 due to an issue with the aircraft’s refueling boom loads that came up during flight tests earlier this year. Boeing, the KC-46 manufacturer, said Friday it is scheduled deliver the first batch of aircraft beginning August 2017 instead of March 2017, with the 18th […] More

  • GSA Seeks Info on Future HQ Construction Management Services Sources
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    GSA Seeks Info on Future HQ Construction Management Services Sources

    The General Services Administration has started its search for information on potential industry sources that can provide construction management support services for a proposed new GSA headquarters facility under a potential 10-year contract. GSA said in a sources sought notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps that it is in search for small and large businesses that can support […] More

  • Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities
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    Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities

    Parsons has landed a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide life cycle management support services for Technical Engineering, Advisory and Management Support facilities. Parsons Government Services will offer advisory and assistance services including facility and infrastructure planning, programming, design, acquisition, construction and configuration management, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company […] More

  • Saab Receives Estimated $130M Order for Airborne Early Warning & Control System
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    Saab Receives Estimated $130M Order for Airborne Early Warning & Control System

    An unnamed customer has placed an estimated $130 million order with Saab‘s airborne early warning and control division for the delivery of an AEW&C system. The contract covers work for Saab’s surveillance and support services business areas, the defense and security company said Monday. Deliveries will run from 2016 to 2018, Saab added. Saab’s AEW&C system is designed to facilitate situational […] More