Posts from GovConWire for 04/04/2016

Veterans Technology to Support MDA Business Operations Under $129M Contract

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a $128.8 million contract to Veterans Technology to provide financial advisory and strategic planning services in support of the ballistic missile defense system…

Turner Secures Potential $114M Navy Contract for Naval Academy Building Construction

Turner Construction has landed a potential three-year, $114 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the construction of the U.S. Naval Academy cyber security studies academic building. The company will design and build classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, lecture halls, offices, multipurpose spaces, a loading dock, an observatory and a testing tank in support of the engineering and weapons laboratories of the multistory academic facility, the Defense Department said Thursday…

Navy Awards Potential $105M Radar System O&M Services Contract to Raytheon

Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services subsidiary has secured a potential $105 million radar operations and maintenance services contract from the U.S. Navy to support the Navy Forces Surveillance Support Center…

DoD Picks MIT-Led Consortium to Establish National Fabrics Manufacturing Innovation Hub

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will lead an industry consortium tasked to build a manufacturing innovation institute for functional fabrics under a partnership agreement with the Defense Department…

AT&T Lands Award for Option Year 2 of Homeland Security Emergency Comms Contract

AT&T has received $11.7 million from the Defense Information Systems Agency to exercise a contract option to provide emergency communications services to the Department of Homeland Security. The new work supports the DHS Office of Emergency Communications’ Priority Telecommunication Service program that intended to meet communications requirements for crisis, attack, recovery and reconstitution missions, the Defense Department said Friday…

CDW Government to Deliver Laptops to Navy Through NGEN Program

CDW Government has won a $30 million task order to supply 27,961 laptops to the U.S. Navy in support of computer refresh efforts under the service branch’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Computer program…

General Dynamics to Continue Digital Naval Radio Production for SPAWAR

General Dynamics has received a two-year, $12.9 million contract modification to produce software-based radio systems for installation aboard U.S. Navy submarines and surface vessels. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will continue to build AN/USC-61(C) digital modular radios and provide sparing components, supplies and support services to the military service…

April 4 Morning Report: GovCon Index Posts Gain on March Jobs Data, Manufacturing Sector Recovery

The GovCon Index closed Friday with a gain of 0.348 points to 74.380 on positive movement in U.S. markets and posted a weekly gain of 1.273 percent. The U.S. markets’ performance is based on jobs data that indicates nonfarm businesses added 215,000 workers in March to surpass analyst expectations, according to Reuters…