ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/25/2023

Guidehouse has been awarded an $89.9 million contract from the U.S. Army Materiel Command to help modernize financial operations. Under the award, Guidehouse will work to boost the Army Working Capital Fund’s audit readiness by supporting the execution of audits and addressing weaknesses within business processes, controls and data analytics, the McLean, Virginia-based firm announced on Monday. […]

Mike McCalip, vice president of government programs and strategy at Carahsoft Technology, highlighted some of the key takeaways and themes from a technology conference and one of those is the use of generative artificial intelligence in software development as the U.S. Army transitions from hardware to software. Leonel Garciga, chief information officer of the Army, […]

Siva Nookala, former chief architect at Decision Lens, was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at the Arlington, Virginia-based integrated planning software developer. Decision Lens said Thursday Nookala has been with the company for over a decade and will continue contributing to the delivery of software offerings to government customers looking to modernize […]

Viasat will continue manufacturing VM300-M cards and delivering the shipboard application components to the U.S. Navy under a new modification that increased the value of the existing contract to $57.5 million. The Department of Defense said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an ordering period until 2026 and the first delivery order is for 79 VM300-M […]

Calibre Systems has secured a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for U.S. Army Force Management School support. The prime contractor will handle force management and strategic leadership education and training and provide services in support of the Army’s planning, integration and execution of missions and functions, Calibre said Friday. According to the Department of Defense, the IDIQ […]

A sample return capsule carrying specimens from the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu has landed on Earth. The capsule, released by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from space, was recovered at the Department of Defense-owned Utah Test and Training Range, seven years after it left the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Lockheed announced Sunday. The OSIRIS-REx mission, built and […]

The National Science Foundation is investing a total of $25 million to support the second phase of five projects that aim to enhance 5G network infrastructure. The grants, which were awarded by the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, are part of the Convergence Accelerator Track G program, the foundation said Thursday. The teams […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential sources as part of the on-ramping process for the second iteration of the Radio Occultation Data Buy contract. RODB-2 is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract used to procure from commercial vendors satellite-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data that could be processed into […]

The Department of the Air Force has sent Congress a letter certifying that the communication service to be provided by the upcoming Wideband Global Satcom 12 satellite cannot be achieved by commercial alternatives, according to a Space Systems Command statement to SpaceNews. The issuance of the letter is in compliance with a requirement within the […]

The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce has selected cBEYONData as one of the finalists for the Greater Washington GovCon Awards, an annual ceremony that recognizes the significant efforts of federal government service providers. cBEYONData said Sunday it was one of the six selected competitors for the Contractor of the Year category with revenues ranging from $25 million […]