Rockwell Collins, DCMA Agree to Implement New Commercial Item Procurement Process Rockwell Collins has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Defense Contract Management Agency to establish a new procurement process for commercial items to be used in military applications. The aviation product maker said Wednesday the new process outlined information required from Rockwell Collins to comply with government-recommended commercial item classification and pricing structures…

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Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue NASA Mature D8 Experimental Aircraft Concept Development Aurora Flight Sciences has secured a six-month, $2.9 million contract to continue the development of the D8 subsonic commercial aircraft as part of NASA’s aviation innovation efforts. The contract aims to help establish requirements for the experimental aircraft or X-Plane program and kick-start the research phase to further develop the D8 commercial airliner, Aurora said Sept…

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PAE Lands $66M Navy Expeditionary Forensics & Biometrics Program Support Task Order PAE has secured a potential four-year, $66 million task order for support services to the Naval Expeditionary Forensics and Biometrics program under the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e professional services contract vehicle…

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Carahsoft Adds Qmulos’ Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA…

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OPM Details New Background Investigation Bureau’s Organizational Structure The Office of Personnel Management has provided more information about the new National Background Investigations Bureau in OPM’s written response to a follow-up inquiry from Sens. John Tester (D-Montana) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), Federal News Radio reported Monday…

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Army Wants Info on IT Platform Sources for Cargo, Parachute Inventory Mgmt System The U.S. Army wants feedback from potential industry sources of a technology platform that could help the Army monitor its fleet of cargo and personnel parachute inventory. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday stated that respondents should have commercial-off-the-shelf software or can provide modified-off-the-shelf software that can support 150 locations worldwide, 500 to 750 active users and 100 to 200 users that can pull reports…

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Capgemini’s US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ Capgemini‘s U.S. government subsidiary will relocate its Washington, D.C. and Reston, Virginia operations to a consolidated headquarters site in Tysons Corner, Virginia under a lease transaction…

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Ping4 to Develop Flood Alerting Mobile Platform for First Responders Under DHS Contract Ping4 has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Department of Homeland Security to develop a mobile communications platform that will work to alert first responders on flood conditions…

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DHA Taps CNTS to Support DoD Health Surveillance Mission Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions has secured a $17.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide support services to the armed forces health surveillance branch of the public health division within the Defense Health Agency‘s healthcare operations directorate…

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OPM Unveils 2016 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Results; Beth Cobert Comments The Office of Personnel Management has released the results of an agency-level survey administered to 407,789 federal employees that represented 80 agencies on a data visualization dashboard called UnlockTalent…

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Marine Corps Orders Bren-Tronics Rugged Battery Chargers; Per Sai Fung Comments Bren-Tronics has been awarded a potential five-year, $38 million contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to produce and deliver portable battery charging systems as part of the Marine Corps Systems Command’s 2016 acquisition strategy…

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