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    Summit Consulting to Help DOL Analyze Retirement Models, Investment Tools

    The Labor Department has awarded Summit Consulting a contract to evaluate various retirement models and investments in support of DOL’s chief evaluation office. Summit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Alicia Munnell from the Center for Retirement Research and Meir Statman from Santa Clara University to conduct the analyses. Work includes assessment of policy options intended to increase the coverage and […] More

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    Drone Aviation to Provide DoD Tethered UAS, Operator Training Services

    Drone Aviation will provide WATT electronic tethered drones, in-field support packages and operator flight training services to a Defense Department  component under a $400,000 contract. The WATT unmanned aerial system is designed to provide communications and monitoring support for ISR, government, news gathering and emergency response missions in all weather conditions, Drone Aviation said Thursday. The UAS features dual sensor electro-optical/infrared military-grade, […] More

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    Mac Curtis: Vencore Gets $365M in Govt Contracts for Systems Engineering, Integration Services

    Vencore has received approximately $365 million in contracts to provide systems engineering and integration services to U.S. government agencies. The company said Thursday it will perform work over a period of six years under the multiple contracts, which were logged in the fourth quarter of Vencore’s fiscal year 2016. Mac Curtis, president and CEO of […] More

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    Air Force Taps Lockheed for Gap-Filler Radar FMS Contract With Jordan

    Lockheed Martin has secured a potential $41.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to obtain, deliver and install a gap-filler radar system for Jordan as part of a foreign military sales deal. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also supply two long-range radars and modernize an additional three radars as well as integrate the new and updated surveillance technology into a command, […] More

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    BAE Lands IARPA Contract to Build Sensor-Based Cyber Threat Prediction Tool

    BAE Systems has received a potential $11.4 million contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a tool designed to help U.S. intelligence and military agencies detect and predict cyber attacks. IARPA awarded the contract under the Cyber-attack Automated Unconventional Sensor Environment program, BAE said Thursday. The agency launched the CAUSE program in July […] More

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    Knowesis Chosen for Veterans Affairs Video Production Support Contract

    Knowesis has received a contract for video production services in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ Voluntary Service program that seeks to promote education, awareness, recruitment and retention initiatives. The company said Wednesday it will work to deliver engagement pieces, public services announcements and other presentation media aimed at veterans and legal-aged citizens. The veteran-owned small business […] More

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    DRT to Help Design, Develop Systems for NTIA Database Modernization Efforts

    The Commerce Department has awarded DRT Strategies a one-year, $6.3 million contract to design and build new systems in support of efforts to modernize of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration‘s database and its related applications. DRT said Wednesday it will work to update NTIA’s Frequency Management Records System and Frequency Authorization Management Program through the development of new data analysis systems. “The […] More

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    Army Taps QSM for Software Cost Estimation Services

    The U.S. Army has awarded Quantitative Software Management four prime contracts to provide cost estimation and technical support services for the military branch’s software development and maintenance efforts. QSM said Wednesday it will work to help the Army predict cost requirements to develop and maintain software platforms as well as analyze data and establish predictive cost relationships. The contracts support the Army’s efforts to […] More

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    Carahsoft to Supply VMware Virtualization Products to New Jersey School Boards Association

    Carahsoft Technology has received a contract from the New Jersey School Boards Association for various VMware products to help provide local school districts and charter schools access to virtualization technology. Carahsoft said Monday its VMware software, hardware, cloud and professional services portfolio will work to support efforts to establish or continue digital learning programs as part of NJSBA’s Technology for […] More

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    Coast Guard Taps CopaSAT for Managed Satcom Services to Icebreaker Ships

    The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded CopaSAT a potential five-year contract to provide managed satellite communications services to two of the service branch’s Antarctica-based icebreaker ships. CopaSAT started to provide satcom services to the military branch’s Healy and Polar Star icebreakers on Oct. 1 under the contract, the company said Tuesday. “We are excited to provide the […] More

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    Army Taps DRS for Ground Vehicle Infrared Sensor Devt Contract; Shawn Black Comments

    DRS Technologies has received a potential $41.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop an infrared sensor for a system mounted on ground combat vehicles. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, DRS will integrate a two-color IR sensor with the Third-Generation Forward Looking Infrared Dewar Cooler Bench platform designed to help mounted troops identity and engage enemy targets, the […] More

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    IBM Subsidiary Awarded Contract to Provide AWS Cloud for Australia’s Tax Agency

    IBM’s Australian arm has received a potential six-month, $2.4 million contract to provide an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform for a federal government agency in Australia, ZDNet reported Friday. Asha McLean writes the contract with the Australian Taxation Office comes a month after IBM received approximately $5.3 million in contracts from Australia’s five federal agencies that include the departments […] More