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  • General Atomics Awarded DOE Supercomputer Allocation for Fusion Simulation Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Awarded DOE Supercomputer Allocation for Fusion Simulation Project

    General Atomics has won computational time on a pair of supercomputer machines through a Department of Energy-sponsored allocation program that will help the company perform fusion energy simulations. The company said Wednesday its team of scientists will have access to two high-performance computing systems located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and the […] More

  • Tech Companies Join Forces to Develop Open Cybersecurity Data Standard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Companies Join Forces to Develop Open Cybersecurity Data Standard

    Amazon Web Services and Splunk have initiated a project with 15 other technology companies to develop a common framework for standardizing cybersecurity data formats. Splunk said Wednesday the consortium aims to simplify taxonomy meant to help security professionals accelerate the process of ingesting and analyzing data through the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. The initiative builds […] More

  • Cloudera's Robert Carey: Hybrid IT Approach Essential for Data-Driven Government Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera’s Robert Carey: Hybrid IT Approach Essential for Data-Driven Government Missions

    Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s government solutions business, said that information technology infrastructure combining on-premise and cloud computing platforms could help agencies unlock the potential of data to inform decision-making for critical missions. “Leveraging data will propel agencies forward by allowing teams to tackle the toughest challenges across the public sector space,” Carey wrote in […] More

  • Dynetics to Help Train Army Cross-Functional Teams in AI-Based Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics to Help Train Army Cross-Functional Teams in AI-Based Cybersecurity

    Dynetics will provide cybersecurity training support to cross-functional U.S. Army teams at Fort Sill in Oklahoma under a $29 million contract from the Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium. The Leidos subsidiary said Tuesday it will partner with the Fires Innovation Science and Technology Accelerator to train military personnel in cyber electromagnetic activity-related threat detection, monitoring […] More

  • NewSat Receives Army Radio Installation Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NewSat Receives Army Radio Installation Task Order

    NewSat North America has received an $18 million task order to help the U.S. Army incorporate tactical radios onto military platforms. The order is the second for NewSat under the multiple-award Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems II contract vehicle, the company said Monday. Ace Electronic Defense Systems serves as a subcontractor on the project and will […] More

  • HighPoint Awarded CFTC Analytics Tech Support Recompete; Mike Spagna Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HighPoint Awarded CFTC Analytics Tech Support Recompete; Mike Spagna Quoted

    HighPoint Digital has secured a contract to continue helping the Commodity Futures Trading Commission maintain a data analysis and visualization platform. The recompete award will extend technical support services the Herndon, Virginia-based company has provided to CFTC over the past five years, HighPoint said Thursday. “Our team’s experience with the platform and the technologies that […] More

  • GRSi Receives NIH IT Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GRSi Receives NIH IT Support Contract

    GRSi has booked a $48 million contract to provide information technology services to two offices under the National Institutes of Health. The company said Tuesday it will support NIH’s Office of Research Facilities and Office of Research Services in various areas such as Agile program management, infrastructure and cloud engineering and DevSecOps. Diane Yarnell, executive […] More

  • Mike Jackson Joins Parry Labs as Air Force Business Development VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Jackson Joins Parry Labs as Air Force Business Development VP

    Mike Jackson, a former Air Force Special Operations Command officer, has joined Parry Labs as vice president of Air Force business development, he announced Monday in a LinkedIn post. He comes to the Alexandria, Virginia-based defense technology company from autonomous aerial logistics platform builder Volansi, where he most recently served as senior vice president of […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Mission Video Distribution System for 9th Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Mission Video Distribution System for 9th Air Force

    Raytheon Technologies has secured a potential $59.4 million contract to help a numbered U.S. Air Force organization update an enterprise system used to collect full-motion video from sensors. Under the five-year contract, Raytheon will provide the mission video distribution system to Ninth Air Force for ingestion, processing, dissemination, archiving and retrieval of sensor data, the […] More

  • Q&A With James Ebeler Highlights Three Wire's Federal Market Growth Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Q&A With James Ebeler Highlights Three Wire’s Federal Market Growth Areas

    In a recent conversation with our sister site GovCon Wire, Three Wire Systems Chief Technology Officer James Ebeler cited software development and cybersecurity as areas the company envisions for potential growth in the federal space. “As part of our strategy, we’re going to accelerate the growth on the services side of our business as well […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers 1st John Lewis-Class Oiler to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers 1st John Lewis-Class Oiler to Navy

    A General Dynamics business has delivered the first of John Lewis-class replenishment oilers to the U.S. Navy after the vessel underwent a series of crew demonstrations that were reviewed by the branch’s inspection and survey board. The service said Thursday that Military Sealift Command will serve as the operator of USNS John Lewis to deliver […] More

  • Boeing Marks 'In Service' F-15 Milestone With Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Marks ‘In Service’ F-15 Milestone With Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force’s F-15 combat aircraft, developed by a Boeing legacy company, recently hit its fifth decade in service. Boeing said Thursday the tactical fighter platform took off for its maiden voyage July 27, 1972, and that more than 1,500 units are part of military fleets across the globe. Prat Kumar, vice president of […] More