Posts from GovConWire for 03/09/2016

VA Awards 21 Firms Spots on Potential $22B Follow-On IT Modernization Contract

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded 21 companies spots under a potential 10-year, $22.3 billion acquisition vehicle that covers information technology upgrades support for VA and other federal agencies…

Army Exercises $387M Contract Option for More Black Hawks From Lockheed’s Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has received a $387.2 million contract modification to produce additional Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army. Sikorsky will deliver 35 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Army to exercise an option in a previously awarded contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

Jacobs Secures $250M NASA Contract for Aerospace Testing, Maintenance Support

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has secured a potential $250 million contract to provide aerospace testing and facilities operations and maintenance services at NASA‘s Ames Research Center…

Raquel Bono: Military EHR Transition Part of Push to More Interoperability, Patient-Centric Care Model

The Defense Health Agency views the military’s transition to a new commercial electronic health record system as one path for the armed forces to design healthcare in a way more centered around a model based on interoperability and centered around patients, DHA’s director told the Potomac Officers Club Tuesday…

Harris Lands VoIP Comms System Supply Contract With UK’s NATS; Ed Sayadian Comments

Harris Corp. has secured a contract to provide U.K.-based air navigation services provider NATS a cloud-based voice over Internet protocol communications platform to support air traffic management operations in the U…

Eagle Ray Appoints Susan Case VP for Intelligence Community Business Devt

Chantilly, Virginia-based business management consultant firm Eagle Ray has named Susan Case as the company’s new vice president for Intelligence Community business development. Case joined the company in February from American Systems, where she was VP of the national security unit, and works to develop new business opportunities and manage program planning and execution, Eagle Ray said March 1…

Lockheed, DARPA Experiment With New Microchip Cooling System; John Ditri Comments

Lockheed Martin has developed technology for the thermal management of high-powered microchips as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Inter/Intra Chip Enhanced Cooling Applications initiative…

March 8 Market Close: GovCon Index Falls as ICF & Navistar Earnings Misses Weigh

The GovCon Index held lower throughout the trading session Tuesday and closed at a decline of 1.071 percent to 72.599 on earnings misses from two GCI stocks and investor reaction to oil price declines and new trade data out of China…