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AIR FORCE
Nine small businesses have won a $675.1 million task order contract with the Air Force to provide acquisition support advisory and assistance services to Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s PEO-directorates and functional support offices
The winners are:
- Oasis Systems LLC.
- Odyssey Systems Consulting Group Ltd.
- Business Technologies and Solutions Inc.
- ADNET Systems Inc.
- Baum Romstedt Technology Research Corp.
- P3I Inc.
- Array Information Technology Inc.
- Quantech Services Inc.
- Gemini Industries Inc.
The contract contains cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost reimbursable contract line item numbers, the Defense Department said in a release.
Work is to be performed mainly at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.
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ENERGY DEPARTMENT
Science Applications International Corp. has won a five-year, $228 million contract with Sandia National Laboratories to provide mission computing and information technology services in support of the Energy Department.
The single-award contract has a five-year base, and one two-year option.
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STATE DEPARTMENT
DynCorp International has won a $48.6 million task order with the State Department to support the U.S. contingent to U.N. Police in Haiti.
The task order has a one-year base and three option years.
This task order was awarded by the State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs under the Criminal Justice Program Support Contract.
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Here is an interesting bit of news from Reuters:
A consortium of technology giants: Cisco Systems, IBM, Citrix, Juniper Networks, VMWare, Microsoft, Red Hat, Intel, Brocade, Big Switch Networks and Arista Networks are teaming to invigorate software-defined networking.
Known as SDN, software-defined networks should reduce the amount of networking gear needed in data centers by using software that is centralized on the servers.
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OPINION
Some companies are actively seeking lowest price, technically acceptable (LPTA) professional services bids—but they’re not the companies you’d think. You’d expect companies with deep experience in their fields that have honed their operating costs to the minimum and are operating at maximum efficiency to seek out LPTA bids where they could compete on price—but it is just the opposite.
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NAVY
Northrop Grumman has won a $80 million contract with the U.S. Navy to upgrade its tactical data link processor.
Under the contract, the company will provide software and hardware system development, engineering services and technology refresh field change kits for the communication processors aboard naval surface ships, the company said in a release.
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PEOPLE
iGate Technologies has named Carl William Lucas associate vice president, where he will be responsible for contract execution and oversight to the company’s government customers across the United States.
Lucas was most recently a senior program manager for InfoReliance Corp. He also spent 20 years at Northrop Grumman Information Systems.
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SOUTH KOREA
ITT Exelis has won a multimillion dollar contract with South Korea to provide the country with an advanced geostationary weather imager to support the country’s forecasting capabilities.
This contract is related to the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A program, under which Exelis will deliver an advanced metrological imager, to be launched into geostationary orbit in 2017, the company said.
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NAVY
BAE Systems has won a $20 million contract with the U.S. Navy to provide a mine detection sensor prototype that detects mines and obstacles in near-shore waters.
This contract is part of the Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis program, which uses BAE Systems’ approach to obtain resources in design, integration and testing.
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Next week, a new chapter begins for Washington Technology.
We’re proud to launch the Washington Technology Insider, a membership model for the readers and users of our website.
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