ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/27/2023

Booz Allen Hamilton booked $2.28 billion in revenue for the third quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, a 12.1 percent increase over the year-ago period. Sales rose to $6.83 billion for the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2022, from the $6.13 billion recorded in the prior-year period, the management and information technology consultancy said Friday. […]

Boeing will equip the U.S. Army with more Next Generation Automated Test System units within a three-year period under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract of up to $92 million.  The aerospace company said Thursday NGATS will be utilized on M109A7 Paladin and Black Hawk helicopters aside from Army platforms to automate the detection of component issues. NGATS […]

Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said federal agencies should provide software developers with a technical collaboration platform that could enable them to build digital capabilities in support of their organizations’ missions. “More effective than traditional, general-purpose collaboration solutions, a technical collaboration platform equips developers with […]

Four technology companies have teamed up with the National Science Foundation to invest nearly $50 million in chip design innovations as part of the agency’s Future of Semiconductors initiative. IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Samsung signed up for the public-private partnership with the intent to fund projects that offer “co-design” methods for designing and producing semiconductor […]

Iridium Communications has authorized GIT Satellite Communications to deliver the Certus global satellite broadband connection service to U.S. government customers. GIT said Thursday it has expanded its voice and data communications offerings for the federal government to include access to Iridium’s global L-band broadband and mid-band connectivity. Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of government programs […]

General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has handed over to the U.S. Navy a future guided-missile destroyer ship named after former 36-year U.S. Senator Carl Levin. USS Carl Levin is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyer equipped with the latest Aegis combat system that is capable of large-area missile defense coverage and complex sensor data processing, the Naval Sea […]

BAE Systems‘ research and development arm has advanced to the third leg of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s initiative focused on ensuring cybersecurity of electronic files. At phase 3 of DARPA SafeDocs program, FAST Labs is now able to work with defense and industry partners on refining its cybersecurity tool suite, BAE Systems said.  […]

In the second part of its three-pronged series focused on OMB Circular A-123 Appendix B, Paperless Innovations tackled P-Card compliance with the risk management framework for government charge card programs. “The myriad of compliance guidelines necessitate P-Card administrative officers to make critical decisions on maintaining compliance and eliminating fraud, waste and abuse in the use […]

L3Harris Technologies has delivered a positioning, navigation and timing satellite technology to the Air Force Research Laboratory in preparation for the spacecraft’s launch in late 2023. The Navigation Technology Satellite-3 payload is now stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, where it will undergo functional and performance evaluation prior to integration into Northrop […]

Blue Force Technologies has completed a propulsion flowpath test for the Fury unmanned aircraft vehicle it is developing under an Air Force Research Laboratory program. Both organizations have collaborated for almost six months to conduct the ground engine test as part of AFRL’s Bandit initiative, which seeks a novel aircraft to support adversary air training […]