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FHWA Awards $60M BPA to Leidos for Program and Technical Support

The Department of Transportation has awarded a five-year, $60 million blanket purchase agreement to Leidos for program and technical support to the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs. Tasks include supporting highway and intergovernmental policy development, evaluating how investments have impacted transportation effectiveness and improving FHWA’s strategic plan and performance management processes, Leidos said. […]
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CDC Awards Task Order to ICF for Modernization Work on Rapid Response Capability

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services has awarded ICF a five-year, $12 million task order to conduct support and modernization work on public health laboratory informatics and data exchange services for its Laboratory Response Network, a network of facilities throughout the U.S. capable of rapid response against chemical […]
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CACI Wins $55M Contract to Support Modernization Efforts at Army Futures Command

CACI International has won a $54.6 million contract to support the Assured Positioning, Navigation, Timing and Space Cross Functional Team for the U.S. Army Futures Command, headquartered at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The APNT/Space CFT aims to advance Army modernization goals and national security requirements by conducting research and development, toward which CACI will assist […]
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NASA Extends Spire Contract to Support SNOOPI Mission

NASA has extended Spire Global’s contract to participate in the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program, tasking the company to support the ongoing Signals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation mission by collecting ultra high frequency and P-band radio signal data. According to Jeffrey Piepmeier, the chief microwave instrument engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Spire’s efforts enabled SNOOPI […]
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Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey Chosen to Lead New Air Force Office

Andrew Hunter, a U.S. Air Force service acquisition executive, has appointed Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey to lead the Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management office as its first integrating program executive officer. Cropsey will report to Hunter and Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary for space integration, and will oversee C3BM program integration throughout the Air Force, contributing to service-wide […]
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Craig McCullough, Senior Vice President for the Public Sector at Riverbed Technology

Craig McCullough is the senior vice president for the public sector at Riverbed Technology, an information technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California. McCullough is responsible for Riverbed’s business activities with the U.S. federal, state and local governments. When he joined the company, he remarked that his team would provide mission support to government defense and […]
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ASC22 Conference to Host Parry Labs’ Mission-Ready Offerings

Parry Labs will demonstrate its Stellar Relay platform and Global Expeditionary Miniature Mission Interface unmanned aerial vehicle control system at the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2022 Air, Space and Cyber Conference that will run from Sept. 19 to 21 in National Harbor, Maryland. CEO John Parkes said that the government contractor, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, will […]
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GSA Calls on HUBZone, Veteran-Owned Businesses to Submit Proposals for Polaris

The General Services Administration is accepting proposals from service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses and historically underutilized business zones to participate in Polaris, its information technology-focused governmentwide acquisition contract specifically for SBs. According to Sonny Hashmi, federal acquisition service commissioner, GSA aims to aid SDVOSBs and HUBZone firms that provide IT services in entering and integrating into the […]
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Open Radio Access Network Security Document Published by NSA, CISA

The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have published an assessment of security considerations on the Open Radio Access Network, an ecosystem of interoperable hardware and software as well as network optimization enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Both agencies are members of the Enduring Security Framework, a cross-sector working group composed of […]
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