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  • Shield AI Secures Air Force Funds for Aircraft Autonomy Software Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shield AI Secures Air Force Funds for Aircraft Autonomy Software Integration

    Artificial intelligence technology developer Shield AI has secured funds from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation program to integrate autonomy tool into military and commercial aircraft platforms. The Strategic Funding Increase Program award will allow the San Diego-based company to demonstrate the potential of its Hivemind software to support drone swarming and electronic vertical take-off […] More

  • Amentum Wins $73M Contract to Support Navy's Overseas Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amentum Wins $73M Contract to Support Navy’s Overseas Operations

    Amentum has secured a $73.03 million contract to support the overseas operations of the U.S. Navy in the Philippines potentially until April 2027. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for support services covers a base period, four optional periods, a demobilization phase and a six-month service extension, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Fiscal 2022 Navy operation and […] More

  • Avion Elevates Brian Wylie to VP, Chief Growth Officer Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avion Elevates Brian Wylie to VP, Chief Growth Officer Roles

    Brian Wylie, a 12-year leadership team member at Avion Solutions, has been promoted to the roles of vice president and chief growth officer at the Hunstville, Alabama-based military engineering contractor. The former serviceman with the U.S. Navy is now responsible for identifying ways for strategic capability management, opportunities for investments and initiatives for business development, […] More

  • Honeywell Invests in RapidSOS Emergency Response Data System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Invests in RapidSOS Emergency Response Data System

    Honeywell International has made an investment of an undisclosed sum and partnered with public safety company RapidSOS to support a data platform first responders and emergency centers use to gather crisis information. As part of the partnership, Honeywell said Wednesday it will integrate its technologies with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform to speed up […] More

  • Bell-Boeing Team Completes 1st Air Force Osprey Aircraft in Nacelle Modification Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell-Boeing Team Completes 1st Air Force Osprey Aircraft in Nacelle Modification Effort

    The Bell–Boeing team has finished changing the structure of and updating wiring components within the nacelles of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas. The CV-22, a special operations variant of V-22, is the first Osprey to receive the Nacelle Improvements Modification, which is aimed at reducing maintenance […] More

  • Leidos Deploys New Military Electronic Health Record at Texas Locations; Liz Porter Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Deploys New Military Electronic Health Record at Texas Locations; Liz Porter Quoted

    Leidos‘ defense health-focused partnership has completed another wave deployment of the U.S. military’s new electronic health record to over 19,000 clinicians and providers at 100 locations in Texas. The recent move brings the goal of delivering the Military Health System GENESIS system to areas within the U.S. and overseas by the end of 2023 to […] More

  • WeWork, 2F Team Up for Government-Authorized Software Development in Workspaces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WeWork, 2F Team Up for Government-Authorized Software Development in Workspaces

    Workspace rental company WeWork has partnered with software developer Second Front Systems to allow the former’s government tenants to build programs outside agency offices while following federal security requirements. Members of WeWork can now access a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform for the development of government-authorized software across various workspaces in the U.S., the […] More

  • Booz Allen Books DISA Contract for Thunderdome Prototype Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Books DISA Contract for Thunderdome Prototype Work

    Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $6.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to prototype a zero trust security and network architecture for six months. DISA said Tuesday the test is meant to inform how the Thunderdome Prototype can be scaled to protect the entire Department of Defense and transition defense users from […] More

  • USACE Vet David Leach Appointed Federal Civilian Programs Exec at Michael Baker International - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USACE Vet David Leach Appointed Federal Civilian Programs Exec at Michael Baker International

    David Leach, former official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was named to serve as senior vice president and national market lead for federal civilian programs at Michael Baker International. The newly appointed executive will oversee Michael Baker’s portfolio of civil works in support of customers in the Department of Defense and other agencies, […] More

  • Orbit Fab, Phase Four Team Up to Explore In-Orbit Refueling of RF Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbit Fab, Phase Four Team Up to Explore In-Orbit Refueling of RF Engines

    Orbit Fab and Phase Four have partnered to explore ways to enable in-orbit refueling on the radio frequency satellite engines manufactured by the latter company. Under a memorandum of understanding, the effort will focus on determining the compatibility of Orbit Fab’s Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface to replenish a Maxwell thruster with both traditional and […] More

  • Astrapi Receives USAF Phase II SBIR Contract for Software Defined Radio Prototyping Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Astrapi Receives USAF Phase II SBIR Contract for Software Defined Radio Prototyping Effort

    Astrapi has won a phase two contract under the U.S. Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research program to produce a software-defined radio prototype that could enable communications and signal processing in space. The Dallas, Texas-based small business said Monday the prototype will utilize its spiral modulation capability in delivering increased data to and from warfighters […] More

  • Trace Systems Books DISA Task Order for Air Force Network Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trace Systems Books DISA Task Order for Air Force Network Support Services

    Trace Systems has received a Defense Information Systems Agency task order to provide the U.S. Air Force with various information technology sustainment and support services through 2029. The company said Monday it will perform work under the All Partner Access Network award, through which the Department of Defense and its partners share unclassified information in […] More