In the wake of the national infant formula shortage, officials from the Food and Drug Administration are taking a harder look at the agency’s technology and processes — and finding that enterprise modernization is not moving fast enough. Due to product recalls and supply chain slowdowns, infant formula has been scarce and in high demand […] More

Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary has secured a $49 million delivery order to supply additional helmet-mounted night vision systems to the U.S. Marine Corps. Elbit Systems of America will deliver Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles to the Marines to help boost their situational awareness and performance during night operations, the company said Monday. The goggles include […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, has topped the Wash100 Award Popular Vote Standings for the 2022 season that saw one of the most active participation from the government contracting sector in the nine-year history of the award. Following several months of […] More

Intel‘s federal business arm has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop simulation platforms for off-road autonomous combat vehicles. The company said Tuesday Intel Labs will collaborate with the Computer Vision Center Barcelona and the University of Texas at Austin on the creation of next-generation tools envisioned to mimic off-road […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a contract from United Launch Alliance for the procurement of RL10C-X engines that will be used to power the upper stages of the latter’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The Florida-based propulsion system manufacturer said Monday it will supply 116 engines to ULA under what is currently the RL10 program’s largest contract. ULA […] More

Software company Ansys has secured a potential five-year, $39.1 million contract from NASA to deliver a range of modeling and simulation technologies to the space agency’s centers across the U.S. NASA said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract allows it to procure the company’s simulation capabilities in electromagnetics, orbit determination, photonics, semiconductors, thermal, structures and other engineering […] More

United Launch Alliance will now provide Amazon with launch services that would cover nearly 50 missions to send broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit for the latter’s Kuiper constellation. ULA said Tuesday its upcoming Vulcan Centaur two-stage heavy-lift vehicle will conduct 38 liftoff operations from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for the Amazon initiative […] More

Gordian has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide construction cost data for the Department of Defense. The construction information technology company said Thursday the contract requires Gordian to input data collected from its RSMeans software to the military’s Tri-Service Automated Cost Engineering System in order to ensure more precise […] More

NASA and United Launch Alliance have launched the third satellite of a constellation designed to gather weather data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The GOES-T unit, part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series, lifted off on Tuesday aboard ULA’s Atlas V rocket from the Florida-based Canaveral Space Force Station, NASA said Wednesday. […] More

AT&T and IBM have announced new simulated environments that are designed to exhibit the uses of their 5G connectivity, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence technologies. William Stovall, AT&T’s vice president of mobility and internet of things, and Bill Lambertson, IBM’s vice president for cloud, 5G and edge, wrote in a blog post published Monday that […] More

A United Launch Alliance rocket is in its final preparation phase for the launch of the third weather observation spacecraft under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series. The Atlas V rocket will lift off on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and send the GOES-T satellite to […] More

NASA has issued a request for proposals for a five-year contract to provide simulation and software technology support and related services for the Johnson Space Center and other centers throughout the agency. NASA will launch a full and open competition for the single-award Simulation and Software Technology III indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and expects to award the […] More