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Fed 100 flush with Defense winners

Congratulations to all the women and men being honored for their outstanding contributions to federal IT.

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DOD awards $800M contract for microelectronics

The Defense Department awards a potential 10-year, $800 million contract to three small businesses for engineering work to support microelectronic technology work.

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DARPA looks to radio for better network resiliency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for radio technology that can withstand the frequent signal degradation that routinely occurs in military operational environments.

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DLA turns to analytics to fight fraudulent contractors

The Defense Logistics Agency wants to beef up its Business Decision Analytics tool to catch supply chain fraud and crack down on "CAGE jacking."

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Modernization in Defense

The journey is one everyone agrees is needed, but the best path and the challenges that presents are not only technology based.

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Army explores synthetic squad-training environment

The Squad immersive Virtual Trainer would give small units realistic training for shooting, movement, communications, care of wounded and defensive capabilities in a variety of realistic terrains.

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Navy awards $32.8M deal for tactical radios

The deal calls for Link 22 radios that support interoperable communications between U.S. and NATO forces.

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Air Force orders upgrades for Reaper drone

The latest upgrades for the MQ-9 Extended Range Block 1, continues a program to improve features in older UAS.

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Five win spots on $155.8M deal to support Joint Chiefs' cyber program

The companies will support the J6 Directorate's C4/Cyber program under a five-year contract.

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Navy adds to digital imaging deal for submarines

A contract modification with Lockheed continues a program to give periscopes a sharable video capacity.

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Air Force modifies NetCents 2's small biz application services deal

The 12 companies named to the original deal in 2012 are awarded a total $88 million modification.

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Navy awards deal to support airborne radios

Rockwell Collins receives a $31 million contract for repair support of its AN/ARC 210 devices.

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Who in DOD made the Fed 100 list?

FCW's annual awards honoring distinguished accomplishments in government IT includes a broad array of defense leaders.

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DISA moves back deadline for $17.5B Encore III contract

After making some changes to the RFP released earlier this month, vendors have an extra two weeks to respond.

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Navy orders more radar jammers to protect Hornet fighters

An $88.3 million contract modification with Exelis will provide more electronic warfare systems to defend against radar-guided missiles.

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Army awards new deal for Manpack radios

Harris Corp. gets a maximum $12.7 million contract to supply the two-channel, software-defined radios.

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Army picks 17 companies for $5B ITES-3H contract

The contract for hardware, software and related services will run into February 2021.

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22 DOD IT leaders honored in this year's Fed 100

Defense Department agencies are well-represented on FCW’s list honoring great work in public-sector IT.

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General Dynamics wins $80M Air Force communications contract

The contract, worth up to $80 million, will support air defense missions for North American Aerospace Defense Command and Pacific Air Forces’ communication systems.

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Top 20 Defense contractors, 2015

Which contractors get the largest slices of the defense spending pie?