Brett McMillen, the general manager of the U.S. Federal Civilian & Ground Station for Amazon Web Services, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the positive impact cloud adoption, innovation through the cloud, increasing data interoperability and "the art of the possible" for federal agencies.

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The National Geopsatial-Intelligence Agency has partnered with Science Aplications International Corp. to facilitate a competition for mobile application developers to help address a Department of Defense need through the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Tony Moraco, CEO of SAIC, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential leaders in the government contracting industry — for his role in SAIC’s ongoing $2.5B acquisition of Engility and driving five consistent quarters of financial success for the company. This marks Moraco’s sixth Wash100 win.

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General Dynamics’ information technology business has booked four one-year task orders worth a combined $23.4 million to support the Environmental Protection Agency‘s IT infrastructure, systems and applications. Each order contains two one-year options and supports EPA’s ENERGY STAR program, which GDIT has supported over the past 17 years, the company said Tuesday. The agency launched the program […] More

A San Diego-based fusion research reactor that General Atomics operates for the Energy Department is set to undergo a year-long upgrade to incorporate new equipment to support studies that seek to discover new platforms for future fusion reactors. Technicians will incorporate into the DIII-D National Fusion Facility new radio-frequency systems and particle beams designed to […] More

Science and Applications International Corp. has selected North Pointe Commerce Park in Charleston, South Carolina, as location for the government technology services contractor’s new warehouse and production facility. Nazzic Keene, chief operating officer at SAIC, said in a statement published Friday the company considered the site’s proximity to its existing facilities, a U.S. Navy installation and […] More

When working with U.S. government agencies on defining next-generation space technologies, industry leaders across the board are all hands on-deck. SSL Government Systems, for instance, is helping the U.S. Air Force test the security of hosting payloads on commercial satellites; researching power and propulsion for NASA’s Deep Space gateway; developing concepts for advanced military satellite […] More

An Orbital ATK-built spacecraft will begin to deploy cubesats in orbit and return to Earth’s atmosphere following the platform’s departure from the International Space Station. Orbital ATK said Thursday the Cygnus cargo delivery system dubbed as S.S. Gene Cernan supports the OA-8 mission which marks the fourth time the spacecraft dropped off NanoRacks cubesats in […] More

A partnership of geospatial data company FYBR Solutions and non-profit organizations The Mars Institute and the SETI Institute will work with NASA on the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for future Mars missions. The team will collaborate with NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project to study the potential uses of UAV platforms on Mars, the SETI Institute said Monday. […] More

A new study conducted by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has concluded that the impact of autonomous robots and other artificial intelligence technologies on national security could match that of nuclear weapons, Wired reported Wednesday. Belfer Center produced the report “Artificial Intelligence and National Security” as per the Intelligence Advanced […] More

The International Space Station has delivered a cube satellite with a global positioning system payload, developed by Australia’s space engineering research center and the University of New South Wales, to orbit using a NanoRacks deployer. The Australian defense department said Tuesday the Namaru GPS technology on board the U.S.-built Biarri-Point cubesat will support on-orbit research activities. Australia’s defense science and technology […] More

Deborah Diaz, formerly chief technology officer and deputy chief information officer of  NASA, has joined federal market consulting firm Deep Water Point as a principal. She will provide assistance in strategy development, implementation planning, information technology investment planning and technologies projects to Deep Water Point clients in her new role, the company said Wednesday. “Deborah brings a wealth […] More