Posts from GovConWire for 06/20/2016

Clark Construction Group to Build Army Fort Meade Office Building for $616M

Clark Construction Group has won a $616.3 million contract to construct a multi-story office building for the U.S. Army at Fort Meade, Maryland. The company is tasked to complete the construction work by Aug…

MDA Awards BCF Solutions $110M Contract for Ballistic Missile Defense Program Support

BCF Solutions has won a $109.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support the development and deployment of the agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System. The company will provide technical, engineering, advisory and management services for the BMD program under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday…

NASA Unveils X-57 Designation for Research Airplane; Charles Bolden Comments

NASA has unveiled the X-57 designation to a research airplane nicknamed Maxwell, which will be equipped with 14 electric motors that serve as propellers. The U.S. Air Force made the number designation to Maxwell and the space agency will use the experimental hybrid electric aircraft to test new propulsion technology, NASA said Friday…

Northrop Gets OTA Modification for DARPA Reconnaissance UAS Demonstrator Devt

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $17.8 million “other transaction” agreement modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform additional tasks under phase III of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node project…

Stephen Wilson, VeraLinn Jamieson Nominated for New Air Force Roles, Rank Promotion

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, current U.S. Strategic Command deputy commander, has been nominated as vice chief of staff of the service branch and for promotion to the rank of general. The Defense Department said Friday Air Force Maj…

OPM Seeks Small Biz Partner to Support Federal Disability Recruitment Initiative

The Office of Personnel Management seeks a small business that can help federal agencies to recruit people with disabilities for government job opportunities. In a FedBizOpps solicitation posted Wednesday, OPM said it plans to award a potential three-year blanket purchase agreement for support services to the agency’s Disability Recruitment Initiative…

DARPA Solicits Research Proposals for Space Command & Control Software Testbed Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for the Software Testbed part of the Hallmark program that seeks to develop new technology platforms for U…

OPM Issues Hiring Preference Guide for Senior-Level National Security Posts

New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management recommends that federal agencies give “strong” preference to top-level national security job candidates who have performed interagency rotational services…

Palo Alto Networks: Sofacy Hacking Group’s Phishing Scam Targets US Govt Sector

A threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks has found that a cyber espionage group has launched a new spear phishing attack against the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its Unit 42 discovered that the Sofacy threat group, also called APT28, used a compromised email account linked to a foreign affairs ministry of another country to send a spear phishing email against a U…

June 20 Morning Report: GovCon Index Drops Amid Market Reaction to Upcoming ‘Brexit’ Vote

The GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.435-point decline to 78.356 and posted a loss of 1.97 percent for the week to record a third consecutive trading day in the negative and break the Index’s four-week streak of gains…