Posts from GovConWire for 04/22/2016

HPE Selected for $443M Follow-on Stratcom IT Support Program

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) a potential 10-year, $443.2 million contract to support information technology systems and applications of the U.S. Strategic Command…

NASA Issues Solicitation for Mars Orbiter Design Ideas

NASA is asking industry for ideas on how to build satellite technology for advanced communications, imaging and robotic science exploration as part of the agency’s Journey to Mars project. The agency said Friday it aims to launch a Mars orbiter sometime in the 2020s that will work to facilitate bandwidth communications, high-resolution imaging and radio-frequency data transmission…

Richard Thomas Appointed President of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Richard Thomas, a retired U.S. Army major general, has been appointed as the new president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Thomas, who was the first director of healthcare operations for the Defense Health Agency, will succeed Charles Rice, the Defense Department said Thursday…

Coherent Technical Services Gets Navy Contract Modification for Navigation Engineering Services

Lexington Park, Maryland-based engineering consultancy firm Coherent Technical Services Inc. has secured a $20.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide navigation technology engineering support for air and shipboard C4ISR…

BWX Technologies to Help NNSA Convert Enriched Uranium to Fuel; Peyton Baker Comments

A BWX Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $241.5 million contract from an unidentified prime contractor to support an Energy Department program that aims to convert highly enriched uranium into a form suitable for fuel…

DHS to Hold Public Meetings on Voluntary Standards for Cyber Info Sharing & Analysis Organizations

The Department of Homeland Security will conduct a two-day public meeting in May in Anaheim, California, to tackle the draft voluntary standards on the operations of cybersecurity-focused information sharing and analysis organizations…

Deltek: 2017 Federal Budget Presents Opportunity for Cyber, R&D, Health IT Vendors

Deltek estimates contractor-addressable spending on the U.S. government’s mission-critical programs will increase by $18 billion to about $682 billion in fiscal year 2017 if Congress approves the White House’s latest budget request…

Mac Thornberry: HASC’s FY 2017 Defense Authorization Bill to Move $18B From OCO to Base Budget

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is set to introduce a bill that would allocate $610 billion in defense budget for fiscal year 2017, Politico reported Thursday. Jeremy Herb writes Thornberry’s National Defense Authorization Act for 2017 is in line with President Barack Obama’s FY 2017 budget request and would move $18 billion from the overseas contingency operations budget to the Defense Department’s base funding…

Carter Urges Gulf Partner Countries to Cooperate Against Islamic State Group

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has told defense ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council member countries to work together toward the defeat of the Islamic State militant group at a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Defense News reported Thursday…

Rep. Jason Chaffetz: Agencies Strive to Meet Security Updates Deadline

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has pointed up the struggle of various agencies in implementing security patches on time for critical vulnerabilities, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday…

April 21 Market Close: GovCon Index Sinks on Rockwell Collins 2Q Sales Miss, Vectrus Decline

The GovCon Index extended its slide into a second consecutive session Thursday with a decline of 0.372 points to 75.982 driven by a mixed second-quarter earnings report from aviation technology manufacturer Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL)…