GD wins $15M contract to upgrade electronic warfare system

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has won a $15 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy for nine high-gain, high sensitivity systems in support of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program, or SEWIP.

Specifically, these systems will be in support of the SEWIP Block 1B3 low-rate initial production requirements. SEWIP is an acquisition program to upgrade the existing AN/SLQ-32(V) Electronic Warfare System.

What the Amazon-IBM battle says about the market

The news last week that IBM Corp. had filed a protest against the awarding of a $600 million CIA contract to Amazon Web Services is the strongest indication yet that Amazon wants to sell more than just a cloud computing service to government agencies.

According to FCW’s Frank Konkel, the CIA's desire for a large private cloud is being pushed by the intelligence agency’s rush to embrace big data analytics. The CIA wants to collect massive amounts of information from diverse sources such as sensors, drones, social media, etc.

IBM battles Amazon over $600M CIA cloud deal

IBM Corp. is taking on Amazon Web Services over a $600 million contract Amazon won with the CIA to provide cloud services.

Big Blue filed a protest in February and has made three supplemental filings with the Government Accountability Office since them. The protest  are delaying AWS' plans to build the intelligence agency a private cloud infrastructure, the full scope of which is yet unknown.

Former Vangent CEO named new chief of SI Organization

The SI Organization has named Mac Curtis president and CEO, effective July 1. He succeeds Bill Graham, who has served in these roles since 2003.

Graham will serve as vice chairman going forward, the company said.

“As the SI begins its next chapter of growth, I felt it was a good time to step back, and I am excited about the depth of relevant expertise that Mac brings to the SI,” Graham said.

Concurrent Technologies wins expansion of energy, environment technology contract

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a $15 million increase to a contract it held with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for energy and environment.

The original contract was awarded back in June 2009, and had a ceiling of $98 million. With the increase, the contract is now valued at $113 million.

SAIC nabs $102M contract to provide IT services to California county

Science Applications International Corp. has won a five-year $102 million contract with Orange County, Calif., to provide information technology managed services and solutions to agencies and departments within the county.

The firm-fixed-price contract has a base of $74 million and contains two option years.

Inside Camber's threat mitigation mission

A few months ago, the Army Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense made 70 contract awards to 43 companies as part of a $495 million contract for chemical and biological defense.

Several contractors won in multiple areas, and one of those was Camber Corp. But even before the contract was awarded, Camber's strategy was focused on this kind of work with an entire division devoted to this kind of threat mitigation.

L-3 wins $24.9M Navy contract for technical services

L-3 Communications has won a $24.9 million task order, performance-based contract with the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical services in support of L-3 proprietary systems and communications equipment for the Coast Guard.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a base of $8 million and contains provisions for firm-fixed-price orders.

4 trends driving today's market

When the folks at the Association of Proposal Management Professionals asked me to talk about trends in the market, they gave me a set of questions to think about that covered things such as major changes in the market, sequestration and small business opportunities.

The format was a fireside chat at their annual conference in Atlanta, and my fellow fireside chatter was Beth Wingate, 2013 CEO of the association and managing director of Lohfeld Consulting. I feel like I’ve known Beth forever, so I had a good comfort level to talk about trends in the market in front a few hundred people.

GE sees big data as big opportunity

General Electric sees big data as a massive business opportunity, according to All Things D. Many wouldn't think GE would chase big data after having largely ignored the internet for so long, but that's not the case.