Posts from GovConDaily for 06/10/2016

June 10 Market Close: GovCon Index Down, Notches 4th Straight Weekly Gain Ahead of Fed’s Midweek Summit

The GovCon Index stumbled from the open Friday and closed down 0.551 points to 79.942 as investors continued to pull back from the GCI’s six-day prior rally and U.S. stock benchmark S&P 500’s three-day stretch of gains that ended Thursday…

Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada

Jack Crisler, Lockheed Martin vice president of business development for the F-35 program, said the company might move production work on the fighter jets away from Canadian companies amid uncertainty in Canada’s plans to buy F-35s, Reuters reported Friday…

GAO Reports Decline in DoD’s $20M+ Sole-Source Contracts to Small Biz

A Government Accountability Office report indicates a decline in the Defense Department’s sole-source contracts worth more than $20 million that are awarded to small businesses under the 8(a) program…

General Dynamics Taps Permali to Supply Protective Materials for UK’s Future Ground Combat Vehicles

General Dynamics’ European Land Systems subsidiary has awarded a seven-year, $21.5 million contract to Permali Gloucester to provide armored materials needed for the production of the British army’s fighting vehicles, Business Mole reported Thursday…

Commerce Dept Names CompTIA’s David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int’l Trade Advisory Committee

David Logsdon, CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council senior director, has joined the Commerce Department‘s International Trade Advisory Committee on Aerospace Equipment and will serve through the committee’s four-year charter term…

Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform

Discover Technologies has obtained a Certificate of Networthiness from the U.S. Army‘s Network Enterprise Technology Command for the company’s technology that works to help SharePoint users transmit data in low-bandwidth areas…

Matthew Barrett: NIST to Update Cyber Framework, Eyes Initial Draft for Early 2017

The National Institutes of Standards and Technology will update its cybersecurity framework in an effort to address feedback from its users and aims to publish an initial draft for comment in early 2017…

AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday…

Army Org Conducts Preclinical Research on Zika Vaccine Candidate

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and partners at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have conducted preclinical research on a vaccine candidate to potentially prevent the Zika virus in humans, the Defense Department news service reported Thursday…

DoD’s Top Leaders Discuss Military Cooperation With Sweden, Montenegro Defense Ministers

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work have discussed security issues and potential points of military cooperation with Peter Hultqvist and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, respective defense ministers for Sweden and Montenegro…

House Panel’s FY 2017 DHS Funding Bill to Allocate $41B in Discretionary Budget

The House Appropriations Committee has introduced a bill that would authorize $41.1 billion in discretionary budget for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2017. The committee said Wednesday the proposed FY 2017 DHS appropriations bill reflects a $100 million increase from the enacted FY 2016 discretionary budget and would allocate $7…