Posts from GovConWire for 10/28/2015

Northrop Wins Air Force Long Range Strike Bomber Contract

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has beaten out a team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for the highly-anticipated contract to build the U.S. Air Force‘s Long Range Strike Bomber plane, Defense Department officials announced Tuesday…

CompTIA Gets NIST Research Grant for Cyber Jobs Heat Map; Rodney Petersen Comments

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded the Computing Technology Industry Association a three-year grant to perform research and develop a tool that will help visualize the supply and demand of cybersecurity jobs in the country…

TeraThink to Maintain Washington Headquarters Services’ Biz Accountability System

TeraThink has been awarded a three-year, $18.4 million contract to operate and maintain Washington Headquarters Services’ enterprise business accountability system. TeraThink said Monday the company will work to manage the program and organizational change, integrate systems and support the training for WHS’ business accountability system environment…

Report: House Passes 3-Week Patch on Federal Transportation Funding

The House has voted to extend federal transportation funding through Nov. 20 under a three-week stopgap measure that aims to prevent interruptions in highway infrastructure projects, The Hill reported Tuesday…

ViaSat Secures Air Force Manufacturing Dev’t Support Contract for Cryptographic Module

ViaSat has received a potential five-year, $13 million contract to provide manufacturing and engineering support for the U.S. Air Force’s Mini Crypto program. Mini Crypto is a small cryptographic module that works to safeguard data in various communication devices and allow such devices to authenticate other communication tools, the Defense Department said Monday…