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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.
Jake Buikema, formerly senior vice president of strategic growth at ICF, has joined Raft to serve as the new chief growth officer of the Reston, Virginia-based digital consulting firm, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. He brings to his Raft post almost two decades of experience in working at several government contracting companies, including as senior capture executive […] More
Timothy Jenkins, vice president at Comtech Telecommunications, will take over Kent Hellebust as president of the safety and security technologies product group following the latter’s retirement from the company by the end of May. Comtech said Thursday Jenkins, in his current role, is responsible for driving the use of next generation 911 capabilities in support […] More
A Cubic business has received a potential $90.6 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force to conduct security update efforts in support of the P5 Combat Training System used by the service branch and U.S. allies. Cubic Defense Applications will work to enable Type 1 encryption and equip the P5CTS with a National Security […] More
More Acquia cloud services have received an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, expanding the range of company offerings that meet government security requirements. Aside from Acquia Cloud Platform and Site Factory, the company said Tuesday Acquia Site Studio, the latest Acquia Search versions and Acquia Platform Email capabilities now […] More
L3Harris Technologies has announced that its high-resolution imaging technology made its first image capture two months after it launched onboard the newest weather satellite of NOAA, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-18. The Advanced Baseline Imager produced the GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image from space using data from the instrument’s multiple channels, the company said Wednesday. GOES-18 […] More
K2 Integrity will open a permanent office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and has named Bryan Stirewalt, formerly chief executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, as a senior managing director responsible for helping expand the footprint of the risk and financial crimes advisory firm in the country and the Gulf Region. Stirewalt will also focus […] More
A Teledyne Technologies business has introduced a payload designed to provide small unmanned aerial systems with laser-based target management capability. The StormCaster-DX laser target designator payload is built for the FLIR R80D SkyRaider UAS platform and uses a Laser Spot Tracker for target area management, enabling a capability previously available only on larger drones or […] More
Ken Peterman, founder and CEO of SpyGlass Group and formerly president of Viasat‘s government arm, has joined the board of directors of Comtech Telecommunications to serve on its science and technology committee. Comtech said Tuesday Peterman brings to the board decades-long experience in supporting defense and government customers. Commenting on Peterman’s appointment at a time […] More
Sigma Defense will modernize aging Stingray satellite communication systems under a Department of Defense task order for the Block II Tactical Relay initiative. The technology refresh is meant to help commanders and warfighters continue to tap into battlefield intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors, Sigma Defense said Tuesday. U.S. Africa Command units tasked to backhaul ISR […] More
AT&T has introduced a routing technology that uses device location to speed up the transmission of 9-1-1 calls to appropriate centers across the nation in an effort to enhance public safety response. The company said Tuesday the location-based routing has a “Locate Before Route” feature from Intrado to enable the use of GPS and hybrid […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has kicked off its geospatial accelerator program with eight selected startups that will be tasked to develop technologies in support of the sector. NGA said Monday it partnered with the Missouri Technology Corp. to launch the third cohort of its 13-week initiative, which is operated by Capital Innovators. Under the NGA […] More
VMware has secured a certification from the Joint Authorization Board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a hybrid cloud service it co-developed with Amazon Web Services. Matt, director of product management at VMware, wrote Friday that a FedRAMP High JAB authorization was granted to VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US), a secure […] More
