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oversees day-to-day content production for ExecutiveBiz, a publication under Executive Mosaic's media group covering government contracting industry news. She also writes about executive movements and commentaries, M&A activities, contract awards and technology and service offerings of medium-sized businesses and other GovCon companies. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities with EBiz, Thropp produced daily competitive intelligence briefings for the company's GovCon customers.
Nina Armagno, a retired U.S. Space Force lieutenant general, has joined the board of directors of Rocket Lab USA, bringing over three decades of military experience to the launch services and space systems company. She served as director for space programs at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition for the Air Force.
Tesat has demonstrated the interoperability of its Optical Communication Terminals for use on the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites Lockheed Martin is developing for the Space Development Agency. During a recent ground interoperability testing, the OCTs were able to create and maintain data communication link with a reference modem and then with a third-party optical terminal.
BAE Systems will repair, maintain and modernize the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) under a potential $93 million award from the service branch. The ship's fiscal 2024 docking selected restricted availability work will include labor, equipment, production, testing, quality assurance and other services.
Jon Paul Kiwus, a CIA veteran with three decades of agency service, was named program manager of the national security division at Constellis, a risk management and mission support services provider. Kiwus brings to the role experience with the CIA in security and operations and he retired from the agency in 2020.
Farrell Proffitt, former executive vice president at RIVA Solutions, has joined McLean, Virginia-based government information technology consultancy PBG Consulting as EVP of growth. She will be responsible for leading PBG's business development, partnerships, capture strategy and market-related efforts to drive its growth.
Maximus will provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency with contact center support to assist in its disaster response efforts in Hawaii. The state was recently impacted by wildfire, hurricanes and other natural disasters that necessitated FEMA to procure support services such as contact center implementation, call and data entry management and additional teams from the company.
Scientific Systems was added to a Science Applications International Corp.-led team responsible for creating a cloud-based application factory the Space Development Agency plans to use to support its low-Earth orbit satellite constellation. Aside from development work, the team will also deploy and maintain the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications Application Factory and Secure Interoperability Layer in support of the SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Isobar Public Sector and Google Cloud have teamed up to provide public sector customers with artificial intelligence/machine learning, data analytics and other cloud-based capabilities. As Google Cloud's authorized service partner, Isobar will bring cutting-edge offerings to federal, state and local government clients.
Redhorse Corp. has secured a basic ordering agreement with the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to deliver artificial intelligence-related support services to DOD agencies. The AI Talent 2.0 BOA has a five-year ordering period and includes individual task orders for program and technical management support services and products.
L3Harris Technologies will modernize and sustain space surveillance systems under two Department of Defense contracts worth up to $134 million. The company said Thursday it was awarded the Ground Based Optical Sensor System and Space Fence Sustainment contracts to support the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities program of the U.S. Space Force.
Ryan Moore, an over two-decade U.S. Secret Service veteran, was appointed chief information security officer of Serco Group's U.S. business arm. The senior leader assumed roles of increasing responsibilities at the Secret Service, most recently serving as CISO and supervisory criminal investigator.
The U.S. Army has tapped an RTX business to work on a radar software upgrade to enable multiple 360-degree Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense Sensor radars to network together and increase air and missile threat defense. Under a new Army contract, Raytheon will further develop its Advanced Distributed Radar concept for integration into LTAMDS.
