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    Energy Dept Taps FirstFuel Software for Energy Intelligence Support to Oak Ridge Labs

    The Energy Department has selected Lexington, Massachusetts-based company FirstFuel Software to deliver remote building energy intelligence services across DOE’s building portfolio for Oak Ridge National Laboratories. FirstFuel said Tuesday its remote building energy intelligence technology and manual on-site audits will work to help ORNL comply with the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 over the next […] More

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    Army Picks 5 Companies for Environmental Services Contract

    The U.S Army has awarded five companies spots on a potential three-year, $9 million contract for environmental, planning, conservation-restoration and sustainment support to various military projects. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide comprehensive environmental services for the Army Corps of Engineers’ military and civil works projects as well as the Defense Department, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and Defense […] More

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    Chemring Subsidiary Lands 2nd DoD Non-Standard Ammo Delivery Order

    A Chemring Group subsidiary has received a $29 million order to provide non-standard ammunition to the U.S. Defense Department. Chemring said Wednesday the order marks the second delivery order the company received under a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract awarded in March. DoD initially ordered $18 million in ammunition from the company’s military products business. Chemring and Orbital ATK hold positions on the potential $750 million […] More

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    Shape Technologies to Help US Air Force Simulate Military Training, Exercises

    Shape Technologies has received an $8.1 million contract to engineer and produce  simulation systems for the training programs and exercises conducted by the U.S. Air Force. The Colorado Springs, Colorado-based company will also support the modeling and simulation branches of the U.S. Strategic Command’s joint exercise and training directorate, the North American Aerospace Defense Command […] More

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    Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments

    Jeremy Myers, a 25-year information technology veteran, has been appointed IT solutions architect at Reston, Virginia-based tactical C4ISR systems and lifecycle support provider iGov. He will support the company’s business development functions and lead its efforts to design enterprise architecture, assess emerging technology and develop advanced concepts in his new position, iGov said Monday. The company noted he […] More

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    FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded FCN a $10.4 million contract to provide maintenance services for Cisco-built infrastructure currently installed at DHA and U.S. military treatment facilities around the world. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has a nine-month base transition-in period and four 12-month options and will include account management, subject matter training, non-standard report preparation and cybersecurity support. DoD noted that existing Cisco hardware […] More

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    Munro Enterprises to Resell Skyline’s Medical Fluid Disposal Tech in Federal Healthcare Sector

    Munro Enterprises will market and distribute a Skyline Medical-built automated  fluid disposal system to government-run healthcare facilities under a reseller agreement. The deal gives Munro exclusive rights to offer Skyline’s Streamway medical technology to potential federal customers such as the departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs and Defense, Skyline Medical said Friday. Dave Johnson, chief operating officer of Skyline Medical, said […] More

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    Buchanan & Edwards to Build Offline Client Tech for Marine Corps Recruitment IT System

    Buchanan & Edwards has won a potential three-year, $19.5 million  contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and implement an offline client technology for a recruiting information support system for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Arlington, Virginia-based company will also manage the client technology to help Marine Corps recruiters perform their job, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

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    CGI to Assess DoD Healthcare Mgmt System Modernization Program; Pat Dougherty Comments

    CGI has received a task order to test and evaluate the Defense Department’s healthcare management system modernization initiative in an effort to help streamline healthcare delivery. The company said Friday it will work to verify the Joint Interoperability Test Command’s requirement for operational and interoperability testing of the DoD’s electronic health records system. The order contains one base year and two […] More

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    Kratos to Help Update Pentagon’s Theater Medical Records System

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems organization has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $23 million contract to provide integration services for a multiservice theater and shipboard medical records system. Kratos will collaborate with Planned Systems International to modernize and maintain the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint infrastructure, Kratos said Friday. The two companies will also update information technology […] More

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    Purdue Receives Research Grant on Firefighting Foam Chemical’s Effect on Amphibians

    The Defense Department has granted a team of Purdue University researchers $2.5 million to fund their research on the effects of perfluoroalkyl, a chemical used in common commercial products and firefighting foams, on amphibians. The study aims to find the impact of different levels of perfluoroalkyl substance exposure throughout an amphibian’s lifespan, Purdue said Wednesday. Marisol […] More

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    Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award

    Oshkosh Corporation has received the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Department‘s Defense Security Service for the company’s facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oshkosh is among the 42 cleared facilities that received the award for industrial security excellence during the annual National Classification Management Society seminar for the Society of Industrial Security Professionals in Nashville, […] More