Englewood, Colorado-based cybersecurity firm Merlin International has made a $10 million investment in Centerity, a Newton, Massachusetts-based provider of performance analytics and business services management offerings. Merlin said Tuesday Centerity will use the funds to expand its research and development center as well as its sales, marketing and distribution organizations. Centerity developed its software to help […] More

“The goal of the government contracting world should be to provide goods and services to the federal government in the most convenient, cheapest, effective manner…That is a noble goal…” ExecutiveBiz: Please tell us about your background and previous experience and how it prepared you for your current position with Merlin. Jones Tallent: I’ve been fortunate […] More

Lockheed Martin has delivered a 30th updated Merlin Mk2 helicopter to the U.K.’s military during a ceremony at a Leonardo facility in Yeovil, England. The delivery was part of a $985.2 million contract that required 30 Mk1 helicopters to be upgraded in support of the British navy, the company said Thursday. Each helicopter contains new radars, sonar systems, infrared cameras and large flat, […] More

Merlin International has won a five-year contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide antivirus, host intrusion prevention and anti-spyware/malware services and supporting technologies through its partnerships with McAfee, NetApp, Cisco and F5 Networks. Merlin said Thursday that the VA may also procure $21 million in solution, infrastructure and storage components from Merlin’s partners, as well […] More

Merlin International holds a prime position on a potential seven-year, $22 billion contract to help the Department of Homeland Security acquire information technology commodities from original equipment manufacturers. The $3 billion DHS FirstSource II contract has a five-year base period with two one-year option periods, Merlin announced Monday. FirstSource II is intended to connect DHS […] More

The U.S. Navy awarded software company Chesapeake Technology Inc. a $35 million contract to continue developing electronic warfare simulation and visualization platforms until March 2028. The project is part of the third phase of a Small Business Innovation Research program on EW systems advancement, the Department of Defense said Friday. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity […] More

Anthony Verna, chief growth officer at Cubic Mission & Performance Solutions, spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the attributes of his new role as the company’s RIoT general manager as well as the organization’s recent growth initiatives to drive value for its customers and long-term success for its workforce in the federal market during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read […] More

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Joint Authorization Board is prioritizing five companies to undergo security reviews of cloud service offerings. Collabware, Deloitte, M.C. Dean, Merlin and PowerTrain are part of the FedRAMP Connect’s new roster that can work with the governing body toward completing the certification process, the program management office said Wednesday. […] More

Pete Brady, a U.S. Army Veteran and former senior vice president at BlueWater Federal Solutions, has been named chief growth officer at Reston, Virginia-based information management technology company TekSynap.

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded the Cold Stowage II contract from NASA. Under the potential $48.3 million, single award, cost-no-fee contract, the university will deliver a suite of freezers that will maintain a controlled temperature environment for science samples aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as well as to and from low-Earth orbit.

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NASA and SpaceX plan to launch Sentinel-6, an ocean monitoring satellite designed to help researchers explore how climate change affects the Earth's coastlines, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 21 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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SpaceX has completed a hot-fire test for a Falcon 9 rocket that will support a scheduled in-flight abort test for the Crew Dragon spacecraft, Space.com reported Sunday.

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