Posts from GovConWire for 10/24/2016

General Atomics Secures $310M Army Gray Eagle UAS Logistics Contract

General Atomics has been awarded a one-year, $310 million contract to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Army‘s MQ-1C Gray Eagle sustainment program. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $74 million in fiscal year 2017 funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Friday…

The Department of the Navy has awarded Hydronalix a Small Business Innovation Research contract to update a micro unmanned surface vehicle designed to perform situational awareness, communications and mine hunting functions…

Rob Weiss, a Lockheed Martin executive, has said the company could deliver training aircraft three years earlier than 2024 that would help the U.S. Air Force save $1 billion in training and maintenance costs over a six-year period, Defense One reported Thursday…

Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said that federal agencies should recognize application security as one of the key elements of an enterprise security strategy…

The General Services Administration has awarded 15 vendors spots under four new special item numbers for “highly adaptive” cybersecurity services as part of GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle…

MIL Corp. will provide operations support to the Naval Air System Command’s cyber warfare division under a two-year basic ordering agreement. The contract covers implementation and security of platforms, weapons, sensors, networks, computers, mission systems, support equipment, logistics and maintenance systems and ashore and afloat enterprise systems, MIL said Thursday…

The U.S. Navy has awarded International Marine and Industrial Applicators a one-year, $21.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to support the preservation and non-submarine safety structural repairs and sustainment efforts for the USS Maine ballistic missile submarine…

U.S. authorities are investigating a distributed-denial-of-service attack that hit internet performance management company Dyn‘s managed domain name system infrastructure, USA Today reported Friday…

The Department of Veterans Affairs has unveiled a new program meant to replace an existing medical and surgical procurement program with the goal to simplify the acquisition process at VA hospitals and clinics…

The Federal Reserve Board aims to gather data from banks for secondary market transactions in U.S. Treasury securities and conduct negotiations with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority which will serve as the board’s collection agent…

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday with a 0.364-percent or 0.289-point decline to 79.147 as laggers outnumbered advancers and ended the five-day trading period with its fourth straight weekly loss…