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Leanne Caret: Boeing Considers ‘Bolt-On’ Acquisitions in Services Sector

An official with Boeing (NYSE: BA) said the company plans to make smaller bolt-on acquisitions in the services sector in an effort to increase revenue of the firm’s defense, space and security business, Bloomberg reported Monday…
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CMS Awards Potential $2.5B Medicare, Medicaid Anti-Fraud Services Contract Vehicle

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded positions on a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract vehicle to seven companies for program integrity support services intended to help CMS and its partners identify instances of healthcare fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid…
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3 Firms Awarded SPAWAR Systems Support, T&E, Security Engineering Contracts

The U.S. Navy has awarded three contracts to Advanced Sciences and Technologies, Data Intelligence and 22nd Century Technologies for a range of systems support services. The Defense Department said Monday the companies are three of four awardees that are eligible to provide systems, hardware, software, network, security engineering, testing and evaluation services to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific via task orders…
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Jacobs Receives NASA Task Order For Orion Space Capsule Parachute System

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s parachute system…
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Marisa Daley Promoted to COO at MIL Corp.; Maurice Long Comments

Marisa Daley, formerly executive vice president of corporate business development at MIL Corp., has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Bowie, Maryland-based government services contractor…
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Accenture Opens Baltimore CMS, SSA Contract Support Hub

An Accenture subsidiary has unveiled a facility in Baltimore in order to provide support for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ and Social Security Administration‘s information technology programs and contracts…
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Next Century to Help IARPA Develop SIGINT-Based Event Forecasting Tool

Next Century has received a three-year contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a signals intelligence-based tool that will work to forecast societal events as part of IARPA’s Mercury Program…
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GSA Seeks New Tech Transformation Service Commissioner

The General Services Administration has begun its search for a new Technology Transformation Service commissioner who will work to manage the organization and the agencies it supports. GSA said Monday the new commissioner will lead efforts to help agencies develop, purchase and share technologies designed to serve the public and contribute to the government’s digital transformation…
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PARC Receives DARPA Funds to Develop Autonomous ‘Vanishing’ Air Delivery Tech

Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support a program designed to develop a prototype autonomous air vehicle that delivers small payloads and “vanishes” upon completing the mission…
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CBO: US Budget Shortfall at $397B After 9 Months of FY 2016

A Congressional Budget Office report shows the federal government’s budget deficit for the first nine months of fiscal 2016 reached $397 billion, up $81 billion from the shortfall recorded for the same period in fiscal 2015…
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AECOM Lands $100M DFW Airport Program, Construction Management Contract

AECOM (NYSE:ACM) has been awarded a five-year, $100 million contract to provide program and construction management services for a number of projects at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport that include work on federally- and non-federally-funded airfield and landside sites…
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