Weekly Roundup June 19 – June 23 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Although the phrase œSpace Race brings to mind the Cold War-era struggle between the United States and Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capabilities, it may begin to develop ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2017 ” Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will provide its SGI 8600 liquid-cooled petascale platform and Enhanced Hypercube system topology in a partnership with Mellanox Technologies to expand a supercomputer at NASA‘s Ames Research Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Mellanox said Monday...
A joint venture of CH2M and Clark Nexsen has won a potential five-year, $100 million contract to help the U.S. Navy to architect, engineer and design energy systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers energy management, architectural, mechanical, electrical, civil, structura...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 19, 2017 ” Data Systems Analysts has secured a position under the U.S. Army‘s potential $37.4 billion Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company will vie for task orders to provide research, development, test and evaluation, acquisition, strateg...
The Energy Department will award six companies three-year contracts worth $258 million in total to research and develop large-scale supercomputers. DOE said Thursday it will issue funds through its Exascale Computing Project as part of the department’s new PathForward program that seeks to create the first exascale supercomputer...
The U.S. Army has selected nine companies to compete for task orders to design and build healthcare facilities for the Army Medical Command under a potential three-year, $249 million contract. The Army Corps of Engineers received 18 bids for the two-phase construction projects via the internet and will determine the amount of funds and per...
John Hays, a former chief technology officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined Merlin International as director of federal healthcare solutions business at the Englewood, Colorado-based information technology and cybersecurity services contractor. Merlin said Wednesday the 25-year management and technology veteran ...
Six companies will compete for task orders under a U.S. Navy contract to provide website maintenance and software quality assurance support services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. SSC Pacific in San Diego received nine offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers test and e...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded participants from schools in California and New Jersey as the winners in a video challenge to design part of a spacecraft that would bring astronauts to Mars, GovCon Executive reported June 7. The company said June 6 the challenge is part of its...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled an Internet of Things hub that aims to assist Azure Government cloud customer agencies in efforts to track, manage and secure connected devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Tom Keane, general manager of the Microsoft Azure engineering team, wrote in a blog entry pu...
