The Louis Berger Group is celebrating the 100th birthday of its founder Louis Berger and is also marking the company’s 60th anniversary. He founded Berger Associates in 1953 as a consulting firm in Harrisburg, Pa. with only 12 employees, the company announced Thursday. Berger worked to combine modern engineering practices with training to help develop and […] More

National Strategic Protective Services, a joint venture of Triple Canopy and Securiguard, has completed its first year of a security contract with the Department of Energy‘s Oak Ridge, Tenn. facility. During the past year, NSPS received a “very good” rating and a 96 performance score from the DoE for its work on the Oak Ridge facilities, the company announced Monday. […] More

Battelle is observing its 60th anniversary of holding responsibility over a structural design and maintenance handbook for the aerospace industry. The Metallic Materials Properties Developmental and Standardization manual contains standards for metallic materials used in engineering and developing aircraft, Battelle said Thursday. The handbook’s properties, guidelines and analysis methods are based on a large set of […] More

Serco has finished a year-long program that celebrated the company’s 25-year anniversary in the industry. The company reports that during its Serco25 celebration, it held 248 fundraisers for 60 charities, contributed $360,000 to charities and sponsored 26 family day events, Serco announced Thursday. Serco also recognized more than 60 employees for contributions to the company. […] More

With the 100th anniversary of its research organization, Philips has renewed its commitment “to improving the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025.”  Since it was established in 1914 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Philips Research has established operations in six international locations, accumulated 1,500 employees belonging to 50 nationalities and granted 165,000 patents, […] More

VTG has booked a five-year, $130 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Integrated Warfare Systems Engineering Group to deliver a range of warfare systems engineering services. The prime contract covers end-to-end engineering services, spectrum management and test and evaluation support for Navy warfare, control and C5I systems, VTG said Tuesday. “This marquee program goes […] More

In his role as director of the U.S. national security team for Amazon Web Services, Ash Thankey fosters a close relationship between AWS and the intelligence community. Thankey sat down with Executive Mosaic recently to discuss some of the trends, emerging technologies, threats and opportunities shaping the defense and intelligence landscapes today.  Read below for Thankey’s […] More

BlueHalo has entered into a partnership with London-based maritime technology company Kraken Technology Group to develop uncrewed maritime vehicles. Under the partnership, BlueHalo’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities will be incorporated into Kraken’s littoral security platforms to create uncrewed surface vehicles and uncrewed surface/subsurface vehicles, the former announced from its Arlington, Virginia headquarters on Friday. “This […] More

The U.S. Air Force has increased the ceiling value of a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering worldwide contingency and humanitarian support services from $6.4 billion to $15 billion. Six companies will continue to provide contingency planning, force training, emergency and contingency construction services, logistics and commodities under the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V contract, the […] More

AeroVironment has received an initial order under a potential $249 million U.S. Marine Corps contract supporting the Organic Precision Fires-Light program of record. In this first stage of the project, AV will deliver its Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munition system, which will provide the USMC with organic, anti-armor/anti-personnel precision fires capability at the tactical level, AV announced from Arlington, Virginia on Thursday.

More

The U.S. Space Force and the Defense Innovation Unit have awarded contracts to Rocket Lab’s national security business and True Anomaly to support a mission under the Tactically Responsive Space program. The Victus Haze mission under the TacRS program intends to harness commercial capabilities to rapidly address on-orbit threats, Space Systems Command said Thursday.

More

HII's Mission Technologies division will conduct research, analyze and build capabilities for the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems on the U.S. Navy's surface ships under a potential five-year, $75 million task order. HII said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the Department of Defense's Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract.

More