Posts from GovConDaily for 02/04/2016

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Chosen to 2016 Wash100 for Acquisition Program Leadership

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James as an inductee into the 2016 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting industry…

February 4 Market Close: GovCon Index Narrowly Exits Correction on CACI Guidance Lift, Cubic & Maximus 1Q Misses Weigh

The GovCon Index held in positive territory in choppy trade Thursday with a nominal gain of 0.109 points to 71.005 held up large jumps in the share prices of government services contractor CACI International (NYSE: CACI), satellite provider Intelsat (NYSE: I) and armored truck maker Navistar International (NYSE: NAV)…

NATO Begins Deployment of Polycom’s RealPresence Centro Collaboration Tool; Sean Berg Comments

NATO has approved and deployed Polycom‘s RealPresence Centro tool to support communications and collaboration through its restricted network. The company said Thursday the alliance is the first to deploy the technology, which will become commercially available late this month…

NAVAIR Plans ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Tech Contract Award to BAE

The Naval Air Systems Command plans to award BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary a sole-source contract to build friend-or-foe identification systems for military aircraft such as the F/A-18 Hornet, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday…

Parabon to Update Army’s DNA Forensics Software; Steven Armentrout Comments

Parabon NanoLabs has been selected to recalibrate the U.S. Army’s Snapshot Kinship Inference software as part of an effort to expand the range of the DNA forensics tool. The Snapshot software will be standardized on a wide array of reference samples to extend its sensitivity to include distant kinship relationships under the Defense Department’s Past Accounting Mission program, Parabon said Tuesday…

Mary Davie: GSA Implements Programs to Ensure Gov’t IT Product Security

The General Services Administration has launched several efforts to manage cybersecurity of information technology products and services that vendors provide to customer agencies. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of the integrated technology service office at GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday the agency will establish a supply chain risk management program office to develop SCRM guidelines and review IT Schedule 70 contracts…

Lockheed Delivers Orion Crew Module to NASA Kennedy Center; Mike Hawes Comments

A team of Lockheed Martin and NASA engineers has placed a company-built Orion crew module on a “birdcage” assembly platform at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lockheed said Wednesday the 2,700-pound module for the Exploration Mission-1 will undergo proof-pressure and structural tests at the facility before engineers integrate it with other components of the Orion spacecraft…

AF Researchers Aim to Speed Up Search & Rescue With Imaging System; Michael Mendenhall Comments

A team of researchers at the Air Force Institute of Technology has developed a prototype of a camera system designed to detect and locate individuals during surveillance, aerial search-and-rescue missions through skin detection, the Air Force reported Friday…