TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 13, 2016 ” Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is set to host its annual symposium on Nov. 2 in Arlington, Virginia that aims to focus on the significance of open source technology on the digital modernization efforts of the government, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The 2016 Red Hat Government Symposium will...
CGI (NYSE: GIB) has received a potential $824 million task order contract to provide cloud hosting, operations, maintenance and reporting services under the U.S. Agriculture Department‘s financial management shared services program. The awarding of the contract comes after the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Bu...
L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has agreed to purchase the explosive trace detection business assets of Implant Sciences for $117.5 million cash in a push to expand the former’s portfolio of security and detection platforms. L-3 said Monday it will assume specified liabilities under the asset purchase agreement with Implant Scien...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 7, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will support the evaluation of grant applications submitted to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas under a $34 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The contract, won through a recompete, covers the provision of a software-as-a-servic...
The General Services Administration has issued a presolicitation notice that aims to add 31 contractors to a pool of nine awardees under a professional services procurement contract vehicle. A notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps says the move will re-open a previous procurement action for the One Acquisition Solutio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) and the General Services Administration have agreed on a renegotiated contract on the use of collected federal spending data, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. GSA’s Kevin Youel Page wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the new contract expands access to the&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” Singapore could potentially procure the F-35 fighter jet built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) in the 2030s as the country’s F-15 and F-16 fleet remains operational for the next two decades, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Defense News reported Monday Ng Eng Hen, Singapore’s defense mini...
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Emergent BioSolutions a five-year, $198.7 million contract to further mature the development of an anthrax vaccine in preparation for a Food and Drug Administration license. The HHS office of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response™s Biomedical Advanced Research and Developme...
Tammy Torbert, world wide solutions architect of federal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said government agencies should implement next-generation security incident and event management platforms that work to facilitate cyber threat monitoring and analysis amid growth in data stores. Torbert wrote that SIEM is a suite of services desi...
Six professional services firms have been awarded separate contracts worth up to $100 million combined for audit support services to NASA. Each indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains one base year plus up to four option years and covers work the Defense Contract Audit Agency has previously performed for NASA, t...
