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  • Cherokee Information Services Awarded Defense Stockpile Mgmt System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cherokee Information Services Awarded Defense Stockpile Mgmt System Support Contract

    Cherokee Information Services has been awarded a four-year, $33.6 million contract to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s defense stockpile management system. The company will perform work at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico through Jan. 25, 2021, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DTRA obligated $1.5 million in fiscal 2017 operations […] More

  • Swiss Rail Operator Adopts Red Hat's Cloud-Based Container Application Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Swiss Rail Operator Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud-Based Container Application Platform

    Red Hat has provided a cloud-based container platform for a Switzerland-based railway operator’s information technology modernization and application development efforts. Swiss Federal Railways implemented the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to create digital services such as a mobile app designed to help passengers buy train tickets and view arrival and departure times in real time, Red Hat said Tuesday. OpenShift is based on the Enterprise Linux operating system and designed to operate with cloud-native […] More

  • Parsons to Extend Oahu, Hawaii Roadside Assistance Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Extend Oahu, Hawaii Roadside Assistance Services

    The Hawaii Transportation Department has awarded Parsons a potential five-year contract to continue to provide roadside assistance services on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Parsons said Monday offers motorist assistance, traffic incident response support and roadway debris removal services along 29 miles of Oahu freeway through the island’s the Freeway Service Patrol program. Honolulu’s city and county police, fire, emergency, medical service and transportation […] More

  • DynCorp Awarded Air Force War Reserve Materiel Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Awarded Air Force War Reserve Materiel Support Contract

    DynCorp International has won a $26.5 million contract to provide exercise and contingency logistics support, maintenance outload, reconstitution and storage services for the U.S. Air Force‘s war reserve materiel. The Defense Department said Monday that DynCorp will also support the maintenance, repair and minor construction of government furnished facilities under the contract. The company will perform work in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar […] More

  • Orbital ATK Books $50M DoD Non-U.S. Standard Ammo Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Books $50M DoD Non-U.S. Standard Ammo Order

    The U.S. government has awarded Orbital ATK a new $50 million order to produce non-U.S. standard ammunition for the Defense Department and its international allies. Orbital ATK said Monday it has booked more than $200 million in NSA orders during 2016 as part of previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and basic ordering agreement contracts. The company operates the U.S. Army‘s Lake City Ammunition Plant in Independence, […] More

  • Orbital ATK Subsidiary Secures Army 120-Millimeter Tank Ammo Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Subsidiary Secures Army 120-Millimeter Tank Ammo Contract Option

    The U.S. Army has exercised a $45.6 million option on a previously awarded contract to an Orbital ATK subsidiary for the supply of 120-millimeter tank rounds with tracer cartridges. Orbital ATK’s Alliant Tech Systems Operations subsidiary will conduct work under the phase 2 engineering, manufacturing and development contract at multiple locations  through July 23, 2019, the Defense […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Lifts 776-Ton Unit of Kennedy Carrier Under Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Lifts 776-Ton Unit of Kennedy Carrier Under Construction

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has carried a 776-ton unit into Dry Dock 12 as part of construction work on the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the superlift for the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier follows a build strategy implemented on the development of a previous Ford-class […] More

  • DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design

    Flex Logix has inked an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array technology for use by agencies and companies to design integrated circuits for the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will offer EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node to help users reconfigure register-transfer levels during the digital […] More

  • SafeNet Assured Technologies Unveils Cryptographic Key Mgmt Tool for Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SafeNet Assured Technologies Unveils Cryptographic Key Mgmt Tool for Govt Customers

    SafeNet Assured Technologies has launched a technology platform intended to help U.S. government customers manage cryptographic keys in physical, virtual or public cloud environments. The data security company said Monday its KeySecure for Government platform works to consolidate cryptographic keys from multiple third-party encryption platforms. “Encrypted data is only as secure as the system managing the cryptographic keys generated by the encryption process,” said […] More

  • Navy Taps BAE Unit for Potential $68M USS Roosevelt Modernization Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps BAE Unit for Potential $68M USS Roosevelt Modernization Contract

    BAE Systems‘ Southeast Shipyard Mayport business in Jacksonville, Florida, has won a potential $68.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide facilities and human resources for the modernization, repair and maintenance of the USS Roosevelt guided missile destroyer. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy obligated $51.4 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds at the […] More

  • L3 Business Unit to Supply Army Hydromechanical Transmission Systems, Ancillary Hardware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Business Unit to Supply Army Hydromechanical Transmission Systems, Ancillary Hardware

    A business unit of L3 Technologies has been awarded a $33.1 million contract modification to supply 96 hydro-mechanically propelled transmission systems to the U.S. Army. L3’s combat propulsion systems business will also provide 800-horsepower transmissions, associated ancillary hardware and operational reliability support under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursday Work will occur in Muskegon, Michigan, through Oct. 18, 2018. The […] More