A joint venture between EMI Services, a TechFlow subsidiary, and Diversified Service Contracting has secured an eight-year, $76.4 million contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command to provide base operations support services at Naval Base Ventura County in California. DSC-EMI II will perform infrastructure readiness support, environmental support, utilities management, regulatory compliance and other facilities management services, TechFlow said Wednesday.

Government agencies have to measure up to commercial websites when it comes to the quality of citizen self-service portals as user experiences are set by platforms such as Google and Microsoft, said Ted Cotterill, chief privacy officer of the state of Indiana. In an interview with Bill Sullivan, vice president and general manager of U.S. federal business at Denodo, Cotterill discussed the “moving target” that is online government services and how agencies can refine such portals.

Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary announced the completion of a Tactically Responsive Space mission for the U.S. Space Force, called VICTUS NOX, demonstrating a capability for rapid on-orbit response to a national security threat.

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A Thales subsidiary has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to prototype a family of advanced standard batteries designed to simplify logistical and network operations. Under the contract, Thales Defense & Security Inc. will utilize processes already employed to support the AN/PRC-148 radio family of batteries to manufacture hundreds of prototypes of the Small Tactical Universal Batteries by 2025, the company said Wednesday.

A BWX Technologies subsidiary will continue providing the Tennessee Valley Authority with uranium downblending services under a $122 million contract extension. Nuclear Fuel Services has been supporting downblending operations of the U.S. government since 1995, and its current work with TVA is extended to June 2027 with the recent award, BWXT said Wednesday.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that NVIDIA Federal Vice President Anthony Robbins has once again been named a winner of the Wash100 Award, an honor conferred annually to the GovCon industry's 100 most influential and impactful leaders. 2024 marks Robbins' 7th win overall. This year, he is being recognized for his continuing work in promoting the adoption and use of artificial intelligence in the government sector.

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HII’s information technology consulting firm, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard, has obtained a three-year authority to operate status for the service branch’s integrated data environment program. The company said Monday that Enlighten and the USCG have bolstered the SURVEYOR IDE to ensure the protection of sensitive Coast Guard operational data as well as enable streamlined data management and faster access to critical information.

A unit of Kongsberg’s defense and aerospace business has received a contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory to build another satellite for LANL’s Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis mission. Kongsberg NanoAvionics said Wednesday it will make some mechanical arrangements to configure one of its 12U satellite buses to enable the spacecraft to host payloads for the ESRA mission.

The Earth and Space Observing Digital Twin, a collaboration between aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin and multinational technology company NVIDIA, recently achieved a milestone when it demonstrated the ability to accurately display in a timely manner sea surface temperature with the help of artificial intelligence. Lockheed said Tuesday that the aim of the Digital Twin project is to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a capability that can process and fuse weather data streams from various space and Earth sensors and display current global environmental conditions using that data.

ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers.

CACI has booked a potential five-year, $81 million Defense Intelligence Agency task order to help the agency’s National Media Exploitation Center, or NMEC, transform databases. The award covers operational, sustainment and modernization services for databases within the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense, CACI announced from its Reston, Virginia headquarters on Tuesday.

CACI International will provide the Defense Intelligence Agency with enterprise network modernization support under the eight-year, single award Enterprise Communications Services task order. Work will be carried out in support of the DIA's office of the chief information officer to meet a variety of network infrastructure requirements, including system design, implementation, operation and maintenance, CACI said Tuesday.