McCrone, Schafer Land Contracts to Support Air Force Nuclear Treaty Monitoring Mission McCrone Associates and Schafer Vallecitos Laboratories have received a pair of potential eight-year contracts to provide non-personal services for the U.S. Air Force’s technical applications center. The military branch awarded McCrone a potential $91 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and Schafer a $90 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday…

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Navy Awards Long-Lead Ship Materials Procurement Funds to General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls The U.S. Navy has awarded separate contract modifications to General Dynamics‘ (NYSE:GD) NASSCO subsidiary and Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division to obtain long-lead time materials needed for the production of two Navy ships…

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BAE, Boeing Receive Trident II Missile Support Contracts From Navy The U.S. Navy has awarded a pair of sole-source contracts to a BAE subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) for support work on the military branch’s Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missile system. BAE’s technology solutions and services business will provide systems engineering and integration services for the Trident FBM under a contract that contains $56…

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Bill Turk, Taylor Johnson Join SOSi’s Legal Team; Brian Geoghegan Comments Bill Turk, former vice president and general counsel of Omniplex World Services, and Taylor Johnson, former deputy general counsel at Raytheon’s Blackbird Technologies subsidiary, have joined the in-house legal team of Virginia-based operations support provider SOS International…

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NTT Data to Provide Risk Assessment Support to Texas Dept of Info Resources; Tim Morton Comments NTT Data will provide security and risk assessment services to agencies and higher education institutions across Texas under an agreement with the Texas Department of Information Resources. NTT Data said Monday it will work with its affiliate NTT Security (US) to analyze information technology security gaps, evaluate results and offer recommendations to address identified risks…

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WidePoint Secures HHS Mobile Device Mgmt Task Order; Steve Komar, Jin Kang Comment WidePoint has received an initial three-year, $900,000 task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide mobile device management services to HHS’ office of the chief information officer…

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IARPA Seeks Proposals for Deep Intermodal Video Analytics Program The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to submit  proposals for the development of an automated tools to detect activity, objects and people in multi-camera streaming videos…

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AeroVironment to Build Miniature Aerial Missile Systems for Army; Kirk Flittie Comments AeroVironment has been awarded a one-year, $22.8 million contract to produce loitering aerial munitions for the U.S. Army in an effort to help warfighters conduct precision strike missions. The company said Monday it will provide Block 10C Switchblade lethal miniature aerial missile systems and support services under the contract with the Army’s Close Combat Weapons Systems Project Office…

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October 3 Market Close: GovCon Index Stuck in Neutral on S&P Stocks’ Gains, KBR and McKesson Declines Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed flat Monday to start the year’s fourth quarter as a rebound by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) in conjunction with advances by other large- and mid-tier primes offset declines by KBR (NYSE: KBR) and McKesson Corp…

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