Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Dicom Systems has received a contract from the Defense Department’s dental information systems center in San Antonio, Texas to provide a technology platform for DISC to migrate and archive exams data from more than 150 U.S. Army dental clinics. DISC will transition more than 27 million dental exams from the center’s archive into the company’s Unifier Enterprise […] More
Silicon Graphics International has received a potential $26.5 million contract from the Defense Department to provide supercomputer systems in support of DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. SGI said Monday it will implement the company’s SGI ICE XA supercomputers at two Army Research Laboratory Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers as part of HPCMP’s TI-16 technology insertion. The HPC modernization effort aims to update high-performance computing […] More
Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch and Rick Lober of Hughes Network Systems have recommended the use of commercial systems to help fulfill the government’s satellite requirements as constellations start to age, Space News Magazine reported Oct. 24. Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, told Space News military officials should consider commercial technologies for their broadband communications functions […] More
Windstream has finished the construction of customized network platforms at six military and government installations for the Defense Information Systems Agency. The network platforms include fiber builds that are designed to support DISA’s combat support mission and its efforts to expand its Defense Department information network, Windstream said Tuesday. The systems were installed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Naval […] More
Global Technical Systems has secured an $18.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce and test 36 common processing system units that will work to help address the computer requirements of various Navy combat systems. The open architecture-based Technical Insertion Twelve Hybrid CPS will comprise an enclosure assembly as well as processing, storage/extraction and input/output subsystems, the […] More
Lockheed Martin has landed a $60.9 million contract modification to integrate and test the Aegis weapon system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 class ships under the third option year of a previously awarded contract. The company will perform Aegis shipboard integration engineering, support the Ballistic Missile Defense test team and assess AWS elements  through Advanced Capability Build 12, the […] More
Parsons held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to mark the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot technology office in San Antonio, Texas, that will support  cybersecurity and intelligence efforts of the company’s government customers. The company said Monday the office includes 2,600 square feet of project space designed to help address intelligence community security requirements. The facility also has visualization conference and huddle […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has been named as one of the Defense Logistics Agency‘s top performing industry partners for 2015 in recognition for its work on various DLA supply chain and logistics programs. The company said Monday it was one of 42 companies selected for the distinction under the Defense Department‘s Superior Supplier Incentive Program. SAIC received the […] More
A satellite that Ball Aerospace built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marked five years in orbit on Oct. 28. Ball Aerospace partnered with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to design and develop the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite that works to provide three-dimensional humidity and temperature data to the Defense Department […] More
General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has won an $18.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design and develop an acoustic path exploitation system. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers hardware delivery, design and construction services for the Deep Reliable Acoustic Path Exploitation System dummy array. The contractor will also help the service branch create deployment procedures as […] More
Virginia Electric and Power Co. has been awarded a $23.4 million contract to perform electricity distribution and supply services for the Pentagon and other government facilities located in Northern Virginia. The company will carry out work in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, through Aug. 21, 2018, the Defense Department said Friday. The Washington Headquarters Services obligated fiscal 2017 […] More
The Defense Department has chosen Mission Ready Services‘ Protect The Force subsidiary as the winner of DoD’s Defense to Response Technology Program. MRS said Thursday Protect the Force was selected out of the 11 finalists for the D2R program and demonstrated its Flex9Armor body armor technology that works to protect wearers against ballistic threats. Protect the Force will also receive $110,000 worth […] More
