Sue Gordon, a nearly four-decade intelligence community veteran and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named an independent director at SecurityScorecard. She joins SecurityScorecard’s board of directors as the company aims to help public and private sector customers manage cyber risk, the New York-based cybersecurity tech provider said Thursday. Gordon is known for helping […] More

Government IT spending continues to rise, and government agencies are mainly responsible for it. While the federal government is making a concerted effort to cut costs and streamline operations, the total continues to climb across all areas. For the fiscal year 2022, the White House proposed an IT budget of $109.4 billion. This includes the […] More

Ellen Pawlikowski, former commander of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, will join Velo3D‘s board of directors on March 15 to help the company meet growing demands for metal additive manufacturing offerings. Velo3D said Wednesday Pawlikowski will bring experience as a 36-year Air Force veteran who also has a work background in the aviation, aerospace […] More

BAE Systems and Embraer will examine the potential defense and security applications of an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle being manufactured by the latter’s urban air mobility division. Engineers from BAE’s air sector in Lancashire, U.K. will collaborate with the Brazilian company’s Sao Jose dos Campos team on a joint study to determine whether […] More

Healthcare is one of the industries that commands the largest portion of the federal government’s budget. It encompasses many institutions, such as public health agencies, laboratories, departments, and health insurance programs, including CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA Marketplaces. To ensure the effective delivery of healthcare services to Americans, numerous federal government agencies award healthcare […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s aerospace systems business has secured a $50.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to repair 36 critical common items in support of its RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide repair services for multiple sensor packages, air vehicles, launch and recovery elements and mission control […] More

The U.S. Air Force has selected Intelligent Artifacts to study and develop certifiable machine learning technology designed for airborne use. The New York-based company said Thursday it will work on the Blue Sky project under a phase one contract with USAF's Small Business Innovation Research program.

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Executive Mosaic, a leadership media and events company in the government contracting space, has named the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award that seeks to highlight the contributions and efforts of the 100 private and public sector leaders in leading government contracting industry's growth and innovation. "We are thrilled to honor the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award," said Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. “This is our eighth consecutive year recognizing the outstanding achievements of the most significant GovCon and federal executives in 2020 as well as the vision and success they will continue to bring in 2021 and beyond."

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Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to accelerate response times to 911 calls at areas near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

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L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to help prototype artificial intelligence and machine learning systems that will process large volumes of data from airborne and space-based assets.

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Maxar Technologies has been awarded a potential eight-year, $49 million, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army Geospatial Center to deliver portable, direct-downlink tactical ground systems that will provide critical geospatial intelligence to users in remote locations. The contract includes two initial task orders worth a combined $8 million.

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A Kongsberg subsidiary will participate in a CAL Analytics-led industry team that secured a $1.6M contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to build and demonstrate a contingency management platform at a Rome, N.Y, test site for unmanned aircraft systems. Kongsberg said Monday its geospatial business will support the CMP development project at Griffiss International Airport in collaboration with four other companies, Oneida County and the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research organization.

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