Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of Public Sector Earth Intelligence for Maxar, as well as a five-time Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about this unprecedented time for geospatial intelligence, the emergence of GPS-denied navigation, and the future of work. In addition, Frazier also shared news about an upcoming GEOINT community event to be […] More

Bernard Champoux, a retired U.S. Army officer with almost four decades of military experience, has been named to the advisory board of Sweden-based technology company Castellum. He will serve as part of a group offering expertise in the areas of business, information technology, cybersecurity and government in support of Castellum’s growth, the company said Monday. […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a $94.21 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to support the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile segments of the U.S. military and foreign armed forces. The company will perform PAC-3 support work in Orlando, Florida, and various countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East through Nov. 30, 2024, the Department […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 9, 2021 — CAES has named Mike Elias, who worked at Honeywell International for over three decades, as senior vice president and general manager of space systems division, responsible for overseeing the company’s portfolio of space products and its division operations in Colorado, New York and Sweden, GovCon Wire reported July […] More

The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency has granted Everbridge authority to operate under the federal government’s assessment and authorization process for cloud offerings. Everbridge said Monday it secured the software provider’s 16th ATO to lead the critical event management platform segment on the Federal Risk and Management Program Marketplace. The company intends to comply […] More

A Boeing and Saab partnership completed the first digital splice of the forward and aft sections of a new trainer aircraft the two companies are building for the U.S. Air Force. Saab assembled the T-7A Red Hawk's aft fuselage in Sweden and delivered the hardware to a Boeing facility in St. Louis, where aircraft mechanics completed the joining process in less than 30 minutes, the Chicago-based aerospace and defense company said Thursday.

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Saab has finished building a new site in West Lafayette, Indiana, that will accommodate aft fuselage production work for the T-7A Red Hawk jet trainer the company is developing with Boeing. The Boeing-Saab team designed the Red Hawk trainer platform for the U.S. Air Force and won a $9.2 billion contract in September 2018 to manufacture the aircraft as replacement to the service’s fleet of T-38 trainers.

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Accenture said Monday it has entered into an acquisition agreement with Cygni in an effort to enhance the global capabilities of Accenture Cloud First. Cygni is a cloud-native full-stack development firm that provides a broad range of information technology (IT) services. According to Accenture, the terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. 

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Bruce Caswell, president and chief executive officer of Maximus, and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how the company has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as enhancing workforce support, developing new technologies and supporting employment services. Additionally, Caswell discussed investments in new technologies, as well as where Maximus will head in 2021. 

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Maximus has launched Maximus Public Health (MPH) to provide resources to help remediate COVID-19 and other public health threats for government agencies. To support the new division, Maximus has added five additional public health professionals to establish the MPH mission and structure. MPH will collaborate with academic partners, conduct research and expand partnerships with public health agencies.

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Researchers at the General Atomics-operated DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego have released a report on plasma turbulence and electron behavior that could support the development of nuclear fusion power plants.

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BAE Systems has received a contract of an undisclosed sum from the U.S. Army through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency to provide additional units of the Bonus munition designed to repel armored targets.

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