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Orbital ATK has received a $20 million task order to supply mortar weapon systems and non-U.S. standard ammunition to the Defense Department in support of allied countries. DoD awarded the task order under a potential five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Orbital ATK said Monday. The new contract is a follow-on to a three-year IDIQ contract that concluded in December. Orbital […] More
Cisco has moved to align its cybersecurity platforms with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework’s process for the selection of security controls. Steve Caimi, industry solutions specialist at Cisco, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that such effort seeks to support of the Defense Department’s cybersecurity strategy. “Selecting the security controls […] More
Array Information Technology has secured two contracts to provide budget support services for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will provide database and application management services in support of the secretary of the Air Force for financial management and budget under the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System contract. ABIDES is a tool designed to […] More
Liquidity Services has secured a three-year contract with two 12-month optional extension periods from the Defense Logistics Agency for management and sales services of Defense Department scrap assets. The company will manage and sell DoD-generated scrap assets from continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam installations under a revenue-sharing agreement equal to 64.5 percent of the gross resale […] More
Leidos has been awarded a $10.4 million contract by the Washington Headquarters Services to provide labor support for the Office of Military Commissions’ case preparations for hearings and trials. The Defense Department said Wednesday the labor-hour contract requires linguists, interpreters, translators, stenographers and court reporters for enemy combatant trials at the U.S. naval station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DoD said […] More
A business unit of Chantilly, Virginia-based defense contractor Vencore has received an estimated $7.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research on a computer network defense program. Vencore Labs will provide research, development, test and evaluation services for the DARPA’s Extreme DDoS Defense program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DARPA will obligate $2.1 million from fiscal 2015 […] More
The State Department has approved a request by France to purchase Lockheed Martin-built unitary rocket pods and other related resources from the U.S. government under a $90 million foreign military sales agreement between both countries. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification to notify Congress of France’s request to buy Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System unitary rocket pods, DSCA […] More
A new Frost & Sullivan analysis predicts the Defense Department’s budget for training and simulation systems to experience a compound annual growth rate of 1.7 percent through 2020. The demand for mixed reality training or live, virtual and constructive training is expected to drive investments and technology updates in the military training and simulation market, Frost & Sullivan said Tuesday. “While […] More
Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit research organization Noblis has been named a finalist for the 2016 edition of the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum awards. SECAF has listed the nonprofit organization among the top finalists for its small business partner of the year award bestowed upon government contractors and industry players reliant on small businesses, Noblis said […] More
ManTech International has been awarded a potential five-year, $33 million task order by a U.S. Defense Department organization to provide systems engineering, technical assessment and subject matter support for intelligence operations. The company said Tuesday it received the firm-fixed-price task order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. DoD’s Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems program office coordinates with […] More
A General Atomics-developed battery technology has received certification from the international certification body Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd following on-hull demonstration tests on a U.S. Special Operations Command undersea vehicle. DNV GL certified General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery after it completed more than 60 hours of at-sea “underway under battery power” operations, General Atomics said Monday. Paul Clark, LiFT program senior manager […] More
Comtech Telecommunications has collected $14.3 million in orders from the Defense Department during the third quarter of its fiscal year 2016 for communications services by the company’s government solutions unit. The company will use the funds to provide training services, ground satellite terminal field support and tactical communications systems that work to provide multimedia communications functions, Comtech said Monday. $8.4 […] More
