SpaceX has launched another group of Starlink satellites along with a deployable visor satellite to low-Earth orbit as part of efforts to provide broadband services while reducing the impact of satellite brightness, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

The June 1st deadline has come and gone to cast your votes for the most significant executive of consequence to the government contracting (GovCon) sector. Following five months of waiting and record setting vote participation from the GovCon community, Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, has secured first place in the 2020 Wash100 Popular vote this year. 

Jacobs has secured a potential four-year, $10 million contract to design, build and implement the National Flood Risk Assessment 2 (NaFRA2) system for England's Environment Agency, the company announced Thursday. 

The U.S. Army is looking for small businesses that can provide intelligent automation, augmentation and analytics platforms to help simplify operations across the service branch as well as other Department of Defense and federal agencies.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2020 — A public sector subsidiary of NTT Data Services will lead an industry team to update the Department of the Interior’s technical information management system under a five-year, $95M contract, GovCon Wire reported April 29.

Crowley Solutions has secured a three-year, $49M contract with the U.S. Army to supply logistics services to the U.S. government and foreign partners within European Command’s area of responsibility.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) received contracts worth $20M combined to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency classify land covers and detect georgraphical area changes, ExecutiveGov reported April 28.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2020 — Haywood Talcove, CEO, Government, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and LexisNexis Special Services, said that government-industry collaboration has the potential to safeguard the distribution of funds from a $2T federal stimulus package to U.S. businesses and families during the COVID-19 crisis, GovCon Wire reported April 27.

Danielle Schefer, who has years of leadership experience in business growth and government contracting, has joined digital services firm NIC to serve as vice president of federal, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday.

ImmixGroup has agreed to distribute Active Navigation’s data privacy products across the federal government through a contract with the General Services Administration and other procurement vehicles.

Amyx has announced its response to the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain the rapid spread of the disease and its effects by supporting front-line response agencies and enabling the procurement of critical medical supplies to medical response activities, the company reported on Friday. 

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Mapbox’s cloud-based mapping technology to public sector customers as the latter’s master government aggregator.