Posts from GovConWire for 04/18/2017

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Raytheon Secures Potential $466M Navy Contract for Standard Missile Engineering, Technical Services

Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has secured a potential $466.1 million from the U.S. Navy to engineer and provide technical support for Standard Missiles 2, 3 and 6. The Defense Department said Monday the contract covers research and development, design, systems and production engineering, evaluation, component development and production proofing services for the Navy, government agencies and foreign military sales customers…
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Former Kiewit SVP Vern Kuehn to Lead AECOM’s Newly Formed Federal Construction Business

Vern Kuehn, formerly a senior vice president at Omaha, Nebraska-based construction, mining and engineering services contractor Kiewit, has been appointed head of AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) newly created federal construction division, Construction Dive reported Monday…
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DISA Seeks Proposals for Potential $350M Agency Program Support IDIQ

The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for proposals on a potential five-year, $350 million contract vehicle that covers professional support services. DISA said in a FedBizOpps solicitation notice published Friday it seeks bids from service-disabled, veteran- and women-owned small businesses for the Agency Program Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract…
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Gilbane Wins $134M Army Contract to Build 2 Military Facilities in South Korea

Gilbane‘s federal business has won a $133.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct the U.S. Forces Korea’s operations center and a facility at the U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys…
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Leidos’ Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments

Leidos-owned company Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies…
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Vencore Labs Gets DARPA Contract to Support Dispersed Computing Research Program

Vencore’s research arm has won a potential four-year, $10.3 million contract to research and develop software platforms in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Dispersed Computing program…
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Huntington Ingalls-Built Ford Aircraft Carrier Completes Builder’s Sea Trials

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has concluded a series of USS Gerald R. Ford trials that assessed the aircraft carrier’s systems, components and compartments at sea…
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Saab to Provide EW Self Protection, Countermeasures System to German Air Force

NATO’s Eurofighter 2000 and Tornado aircraft management agency has ordered Saab‘s electronic warfare self-protection and countermeasure system on behalf of the German air force. Saab said April 11 the order includes 29 units of the BOZ-101 EC self-protection and countermeasure system which will be produced at the company’s sites in Järfälla, Sweden and Centurion, South Africa…
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Cubic’s TeraLogics Seeks to Streamline Security Compliance, Reporting Process With Vaulted App

Cubic’s TeraLogics subsidiary has unveiled an application designed to help businesses streamline the reporting and security compliance process for existing and new apps through consolidation of requirements, resources and teammates into a common workspace…
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VIDEO: Visualizing the Future with Immersive Technology

Using the first-in-industry CAVE2™, Raytheon delivers cutting-edge immersive visualization to enhance our products and processes.
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April 17 Market Close: GovCon Index and Markets Rebound Strongly From Last Week

The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index turned in better than 1 percent gain on the day as advancing stocks closed 29 to 1 versus decliners. With the European markets closed the U.S. markets all closed strongly as investors geopolitical concerns dampened…
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