Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 06/16/2016

CMS Picks 80 Companies for Potential $25B IT Services IDIQ

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 80 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $25 billion contract vehicle the agency intends to use as its primary mechanism for acquisitions of information technology services via task orders…

Tim Denning Named STG Business Development VP; Paul Fernandes Comments

Tim Denning, director of IDIQ management at STG since 2014, has been named vice president for business development at the Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor. Denning will be responsible for helping develop and implement the company’s organic growth strategies and will lead its business development and capture functions in his new position, STG said Wednesday…

Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments

A GPS navigation payload Raytheon built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System was launched aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday…

BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System

BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $3.9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop a custom variant of its maritime defense system to support ONR’s Combined Electro-optic/infrared Surveillance and Response System program…

USDOT Adds AT&T as Smart City Challenge Partner; Anthony Foxx Comments

The Transportation Department has added AT&T as a strategic partner in the Smart City Challenge, a competition that seeks to develop an integrated city centered around data, technology and creativity…

Battelle Updates Hospital Care Performance Analytics Tool; Warren Strauss Comments

Battelle has updated its analytics software that works to help hospital networks track and analyze clinical quality metrics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services…

Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders…

National Archives & Records Administration Seeks New CTO

The National Archives and Records Administration has started its search for a new chief technology officer under the agency’s information services office. NARA said in a notice posted June 9 on USAJobs the new CTO will manage the agency’s architecture and technology management division and serve as an adviser to the chief information officer, deputy CIO and other senior officials on information technology programs and issues…

NASA Taps Oblong Industries to Provide Proprietary Immersive Collaboration Platform

Los Angeles-based spatial operating environment developer Oblong Industries has landed a contract to supply its proprietary immersive collaboration offering across NASA‘s aeronautics division. Oblong Industries said Wednesday its Mezzanine platform works to connect collaborators in the same room or across multiple locations and give participants data and information from multiple sources to aid the decision-making process…

Parsons to Support Life Cycle Mgmt of MDA Facilities; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

Parsons has been awarded a contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the facilities, military construction, and environmental management directorate of the Missile Defense Agency. Parsons said Wednesday it will also support the agency’s European Phased Adaptive Approach site activation efforts in Romania, initial design work on the Long Range Discrimination Radar system and construction award activities in Poland…

Alion to Support DISA’s Spectrum Mgmt Operations Under $137M IDIQ; Sean Pender Comments

Alion Science and Technology will help a Defense Information Systems Agency organization explore tools for spectrum management through the company’s position on a potential $137 million contract DISA awarded in May…