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  • Leidos Books $53M Navy Task Order to Research Warfighter Performance; Liz Porter Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Books $53M Navy Task Order to Research Warfighter Performance; Liz Porter Quoted

    Leidos has secured a potential 66-month, $53 million task order from the U.S. Navy to study warfighters’ performance in air, water and special warfare settings and help increase their survivability in the mentioned environments. The company said Wednesday it will collect and analyze data, perform statistical analysis as well as provide computer programming and scientific reporting […] More

  • USmax Receives $79M USAID General Support Services Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USmax Receives $79M USAID General Support Services Task Order

    USmax, an information technology and professional services firm, has secured a five-year, $79 million task order to provide general support services to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Development and Innovation. The Fairfax, Virginia-based contractor said Tuesday it will perform program management, financial analysis, acquisition and other services in support of DDI’s […] More

  • Amentum Wins $59M Air Force Contract for Aerospace Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amentum Wins $59M Air Force Contract for Aerospace Support Services

    Amentum has received a $58.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide aerospace support services at several military bases in California and Florida through Feb. 28, 2030. The company will help manage, operate and maintain unconventional fuel-powered launch programs and provide other support services for engineering, aerospace ground equipment, hazardous operations and cryogenics and […] More

  • Dewberry Receives NOAA Contract Extension for Alaska Mapping Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dewberry Receives NOAA Contract Extension for Alaska Mapping Project

    Dewberry has secured a contract extension from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue assisting a U.S. Geological Survey arm in modernizing critical Alaska map layers. The firm said Friday it will help the Alaska Mapping Executive Committee with the Alaska Coastal Mapping Strategy. The contractor will support planning activities, analyze data and coordinate with stakeholders under […] More

  • NOAA Extends Satellite Imagery Collaboration With Planet; Jerome Fisher Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Extends Satellite Imagery Collaboration With Planet; Jerome Fisher Quoted

    Planet Labs has received a new contract to continue providing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with satellite imagery in support of oil spill monitoring activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The San Francisco-based company said Wednesday it will deliver PlanetScope and SkySat imaging products to NOAA to help it acquire more information about the […] More

  • Google Workspace Granted DOD Impact Level 4 Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Workspace Granted DOD Impact Level 4 Authorization

    Google has secured Impact Level 4 authorization from the Department of Defense for Google Workspace, its cloud computing software formerly known as G Suite. Google Workspace is now approved for use when handling controlled unclassified information of federal government customers to ensure secure collaboration as well as seamless operation, Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector business, wrote […] More

  • Microsoft's Cloud-Based Desktop Virtualization Service Now Accredited for Use by Azure Government Secret Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Cloud-Based Desktop Virtualization Service Now Accredited for Use by Azure Government Secret Customers

    Microsoft has made its cloud-based desktop virtualization service generally available for users of an Azure Government platform version that supports U.S. agencies working with secret-level data. The offering of Azure Virtual Desktop to Azure Government Secret customers followed Microsoft’s receipt of Department of Defense Impact Level 6 accreditation for the product formerly known as Windows Virtual […] More

  • NCCoE Taps 12 Companies to Help Standardize Post-Quantum Practices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCCoE Taps 12 Companies to Help Standardize Post-Quantum Practices

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with 12 technology companies on a demonstration project the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence launched in support of efforts to standardize practices for post-quantum cryptography. Collaborators for the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography project will aim to showcase tools that could be used to automatically discover usage of […] More

  • DTRA Seeks Info on Consolidated DevSecOps Platform Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTRA Seeks Info on Consolidated DevSecOps Platform Development

    The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is soliciting input on developing a consolidated platform that is meant to employ a DevSecOps approach to creating artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science technologies. In a call for information notice posted Friday, DTRA said its Digital Battlespace Management Division intends to build a platform for government program information sharing […] More

  • Sikorsky Completes Delivery of 7th CH-53K Helicopter to Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Completes Delivery of 7th CH-53K Helicopter to Marine Corps

    Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has delivered another CH-53K helicopter to the U.S. Marine Corps, adding to the six already in operation at the service branch’s air station base in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defense company said Thursday the dispatch was the first from the Lot 2  contract awarded by the Navy to Sikorsky in 2019, with […] More

  • Peraton Achieves CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Development, Services; Jeff Bohling Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Achieves CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Development, Services; Jeff Bohling Quoted

    Peraton has received a Maturity Level 3 certification under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration Version 2.0 framework for development and services. The rating underscores Peraton’s best practices for development and services in support of its customers, the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered enterprise information technology provider said. “Receiving two CMMI Level 3 ratings is a testament of Peraton’s commitment […] More

  • Small Businesses Receive $137M in Clean Energy R&D Grants From DOE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Businesses Receive $137M in Clean Energy R&D Grants From DOE

    Several U.S. companies have secured grants collectively amounting to $137 million from the Department of Energy to research and develop clean energy technologies and instruments under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The awardees will conduct phase II R&D work to help DOE innovate technologies in support of its mission areas, the […] More