Posts from GovConWire for 06/06/2016

6 Contractors Added to $900M IDIQ for USSOCOM Mission Support Services

The U.S. Special Operations Command has picked an additional six businesses to compete for mission support task orders under a potential $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract…

Battelle Wins $99M Navy Environmental Support Services Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded Battelle‘s nonprofit arm an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $99 million to provide environmental security technology support to various local and international Navy and U…

Air Force Taps American Systems for $85M Fighter Aircraft Testing Support IDIQ

American Systems has won a potential five-year, $85 million contract to provide operational test and evaluation support for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth- and fifth-generation fighter aircraft and related systems…

N2 Imaging Systems Secures $81M Army Contract for Sniper Weapon Sights

Irvine, California-based company N2 Imaging Systems has landed an $81 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the engineering, manufacturing, development and production of the Family of Weapons Sights – Sniper thermal sight system…

Ridgewood Technology Partners to Support Navy Enterprise Networks Program Office

The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $8 million contract to Ridgewood Technology Partners to provide program management office support to the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Navy Enterprise Networks program office…

Ball Aerospace, World View Collaborate to Use Balloon Flight Platform for Remote Sensing

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has entered a partnership with World View to test the latter’s Stratollite above-earth balloon vehicle for remote sensing applications. The collaboration will involve a long-duration Stratollite flight to explore the possible commercial applications of remote sensing, Ball Aerospace said Thursday…

CTC Subsidiary Releases File Transfer Security Platform; Dave Davis Comments

A Concurrent Technologies Corp. subsidiary has rolled out a cybersecurity software offering in an effort to help government and commercial organizations address threats from malware and malicious content…

GAO Reviews Quality, Frequency of CIO Ratings on Federal IT Dashboard

The Government Accountability Office has urged agency chief information officers to frequently update their ratings for agency information technology investments on the web-based Federal IT Dashboard system…

Air Force, Lockheed Ink Multiyear C-130J Aircraft Production Deal

Lockheed Martin has received a multiyear contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s mobility directorate to produce an additional 78 C-130J Super Hercules transport planes. The directorate will use the aircraft to provide airlift support to the U…

June 6 Morning Report: GovCon Index Posts Narrow Friday Gain on May Jobs Data

The GovCon Index closed Friday with a narrow gain of 0.091 points to 79.018 for its third consecutive week in positive territory as the Labor Department reported May jobs data below expectations. According to CNBC, analysts have also indicated that the Federal Reserve could implement a 54-percent increase in the interest rate as early as September…