Posts from GovConWire for 04/05/2016

Army Seeks Software Platforms for Micro-Clouds Through 3rd Cyber Innovation Challenge; Douglas Wiltsie Comments

The U.S. Army held an industry day Thursday at the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental facility in Silicon Valley as part of a challenge that aims to evaluate and buy prototypes of cyber platforms from small businesses, the Army reported Friday…

BAE Systems to Produce Air Expendable Countermeasure Flares for Navy

A business unit of BAE Systems has been awarded a $40 million contract to supply new flares for the U.S. Navy‘s Air Expendable Countermeasures program. Part of the MJU-68/B flares production will go to the government of Israel under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Monday…

NIST Unveils Funding Opportunity for Federated E-Health Identity Mgmt Ideas

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a solicitation for proposals on identity management technology that can help providers and patients to view electronic health records with a single credential…

UK Defense Ministry to Allocate $57M on New Cybersecurity Center

U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has said his agency will spend approximately $57 million on a new cybersecurity center to be potentially located at the defense ministry’s Corsham office. The British defense ministry said Friday the Cyber Security Operations Center will employ cybersecurity professionals who will work to further protect the country’s networks and systems from cyber threats…

Raytheon to Provide S&T Research for Network Cooperative Radar Program Under Navy Contract

Raytheon has been awarded a potential $18.7 million U.S. Navy contract to provide science and technology research support for the Network Cooperative Radar Program. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business unit will perform design and development work for the program in Tewksbury, Massachusetts…

Textron Lands $66M Foreign Military Sales Contract for Armored Personnel Carriers

A Textron subsidiary has secured a $66 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide armored personnel carriers to Iraq and Colombia. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems will supply each nation with 60 Commando Select APCs, of which 58 have a 40/50 turret and four have a command-and-control variant, the Defense Department said Monday…

Bell Helicopter Receives $170M Navy AH-1Z Chopper Contract Modification

Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $170.2 million contract modification to produce and deliver additional AH-1Z aircraft to the government of Pakistan under the foreign military sales program…

April 4 Market Close: GovCon Index Declines as US Market Rally Pauses

The GovCon Index started the first full week of April and second-quarter trade Monday with a decline of 0.191 points to 74.189 in a session that saw U.S. stocks hold slightly negative throughout the day…