Bitcoin, dogecoin, ethereum, binance, and all other cryptocurrencies are flooding the news feed these days, saying their value has increased. You may have only recently heard of cryptocurrency, but it has been in the market for a few years now. In the hope of speeding up the receipt of payments, paying employees, and making it […] More

USS Jack H. Lucas, a Huntington Ingalls Industries-built guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy, started its combat system testing more than half a year after it was launched from the shipbuilder’s location in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The destroyer being integrated with AN/SPY-6(V)1 air and missile defense radar from a Raytheon Technologies business recorded Aegis system […] More

Textron's Bell subsidiary has marked the third anniversary of the V-280 Valor's initial flight and touted that the tiltrotor aircraft recorded 200 mission hours.

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Cherokee Nation Businesses’ portfolio of government contracting and professional services companies has adopted the name Cherokee Federal. “Throughout the past decade, we’ve had the honor and opportunity to work with many outstanding federal partners,” Steven Bilby, president of Cherokee Federal, said in a statement published Monday. “In an effort to better align our current and future endeavors with our esteemed government customers, I am pleased to announce Cherokee Federal as our new brand.”

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Executive Mosaic is honored to present Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for advancing new satellite, the internet of things and cloud technologies while driving revenue for Iridium. 

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary is slated to test the autonomous flight feature of a tiltrotor aircraft’s fly-by-wire control system as part of the U.S. Army’s one-year extension to the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration initiative, Asia Times reported Tuesday.

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KBR has updated its brand with a new logo and a website redesign in a move to reflect the firm's transformation as a services provider to the government and energy sectors.

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Airbus’ helicopter manufacturing division has joined the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition seeking a new armed scout rotorcraft to replace the service's retired fleet of Bell OH-58 Kiowa Warriors, Flightglobal reported Wednesday.

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Textron‘s Bell subsidiary has conducted the first public demonstration of the V-280 Valor tiltrotor prototype for the U.S. Army’s capability demonstration program, which is expected to be completed in 2019, Defense News reported Wednesday. The aircraft reached 170 knots in the first pass and 175 knots in the second pass of the demonstration while on hover […] More

An office within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a virtual proposers’ day to disseminate information on investment plans under the Disruptive Capabilities for Future Warfare broad agency announcement. DARPA said Friday its Tactical Technology Office seeks to discover and exhibit the use of unorthodox, alternative approaches and technologies that are intended to disrupt traditional warfighting […] More

A new Onvia report revealed a 5.4 percent annual increase in the volume of bids and requests for proposals in the state, local and education government marketplace in the second quarter of 2017. The “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q2 2017” report showed that local agencies saw a 7.2 percent rise in the number of published solicitations, while […] More

Susan Eustis, lead author of the “Military Drones: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts Worldwide, 2016 to 2022” report, has said the global market for military drones will increase to $8.6 billion by 2022 from $4.4 billion recorded in 2015, Inside Unmanned Systems reported Monday. Eustis told the publication the U.S. accounts for 73 percent of the worldwide […] More