Charles River Analytics nabs $8.2M software contract

Charles River Analytics Inc. has won an $8.2 million contract to provide the Air Force with software.

Raytheon BBN Technologies wins $7.7M system lifecycle software contract

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. has won a $7.7 million Air Force contract for Interfaces, Models, and Monitoring for Resource-Aware Transformations that Augment the Lifecycles of Systems (IMMoRTALS) software.

Opera Solutions to provide operational analytics under $28M CMS contract

Opera Solutions has won a $28 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide operational analytics for the Health Insurance Marketplaces under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Leidos scores $661.8M contract to support airborne platform

Leidos has won a $661.8 million contract with the Army to design, produce, integrate and test for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) program of record.

Salient CRGT wins $15M contract to support FDA center

Salient CRGT has won a $15 million Food and Drug Administration contract to support the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, or CVM.

Mercury Systems wins $41.8M contract for memory modulators

Mercury Systems has won a $41.8 million contract with the Navy to deliver 200 advanced miniaturized Digital RG Memory modulators.

Systems Planning and Analysis nabs $75.7M program support contract

Systems Planning and Analysis has won a potentially $75.7 million sole source contract to support Navy programs.

Lockheed Martin wins $11.6M contract mod to continue CASS support

Lockheed Martin has won an $11.6 million contract modification to continue its support of the Consolidated Automated Support System.

Agencies in need of application modernization, report finds

A recent MeriTalk report found that 92 percent of federal IT managers say that it is urgent for their agency to modernize legacy applications.

Comtech dishes out $430.8M to acquire TeleCommunication Systems Inc.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has acquired TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in a $430.8 million deal that brings TCS’ C4ISR and next-gen 911 services capabilities to Comtech.

Citizant wins $10M integration support contract

Citizant has won a $10 million technical integration support services contract to help deploy the IRS’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Cat applications.

Air Force adds large biz winners to $5B cyber contract

The Air Force has added ten large businesses to the winning pool of a $5 billion cybersecurity and information systems contract first named in October 2015.

Tecolote Research wins $7.3M acquisition support contract

Tecolote Research Inc. has won a $7.3 million task order with the Air Force to support the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate.

Splunk names new president and CEO

Splunk Inc. has appointed Doug Merritt to replace Godfrey Sullivan as the company’s president and chief executive officer.

Fiscal 2016 filled with defense opportunities

Defense agencies across the Defense Department have made their budget requests for fiscal 2016, and with those requests come a slew of defense opportunities for the contracting community.

Innovation achieved through teamwork and is crucial to future of security

With the federal marketplace so ripe with opportunities for emerging technologies such as mobility, big data and the cloud, you hear the word “innovation” a lot, but author and journalist Walter Isaacson warned that it is easy to lose sight of what it means to be innovative.

Chameleon Integrated Services wins $63.5M in contracts for IT support

Chameleon Integrated Services has won $63.5 million in contracts to support the Defense Information Systems Agency.

LGS Innovations wins $9.5M contract to lay subsea telecom cables

LGS Innovations has won a $9.5 million contract to supply submarine telecommunication cables to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center.

Tribalco acquires Alliant business unit of PROSOFT

Tribalco LLC has acquired the Alliant business unit of Professional Software Engineering, or PROSOFT.

Mach37 Cyber Acclerator accepting applications for Spring 2016 cohort

The Mach37 Cyber Accelerator has opened up the application period for its Spring 2016 cohort.