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Christine Thropp

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.

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  • Virgin Orbit Partners With SwRI on Potential Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Services Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Space News

    Virgin Orbit Partners With SwRI on Potential Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Services Delivery

    Virgin Orbit and the Southwest Research Institute have partnered to look into combining the former’s LauncherOne rocket and the latter’s space mission development expertise to potentially pursue specialized mission opportunities. The partnership is exploring opportunities in joint SwRI platform manufacturing and services delivery to Virgin Orbit clients, and considering stewardship programs focused on the use […] More

  • Virgin Orbit Completes FAA Environmental Review for LauncherOne Rocket Operations From Andersen AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News

    Virgin Orbit Completes FAA Environmental Review for LauncherOne Rocket Operations From Andersen AFB

    Virgin Orbit has completed the Federal Aviation Administration’s final environmental assessment that found that licensing the company’s LauncherOne rocket operations from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam “would not significantly affect” the environment quality. According to the Aug. 27 notice, the proposed action from the agency is to provide Virgin Orbit with a launch operator’s […] More

  • Raytheon Subsidiary Books $77M Air Force Contract Modification for Missile Tech Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Contract Awards, News

    Raytheon Subsidiary Books $77M Air Force Contract Modification for Missile Tech Production

    Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has secured a $77.1 million contract modification for the manufacturing and delivery of training missiles and their guidance component to the U.S. Air Force. The award exercised an option for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile production lot 35 captive air training missiles and CATM guidance sections, the Department of […] More

  • Matterport, In-Q-Tel Collaborating on Cloud Platform Development; George Hoyem Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Matterport, In-Q-Tel Collaborating on Cloud Platform Development; George Hoyem Quoted

    Matterport has partnered with In-Q-Tel on the development of a government cloud platform that is planned for deployment on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) to support agencies’ information acquisition and management efforts. The move is aimed at addressing cybersecurity and other regulatory and compliance requirements to provide secure cloud services to federal and civilian […] More

  • Phase Four to Demo Multi-mode Propulsion Capabilities Under Space Force Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Contract Awards, News

    Phase Four to Demo Multi-mode Propulsion Capabilities Under Space Force Contract

    Phase Four was tasked to demonstrate multi-mode propulsion capabilities using its radio-frequency thruster technology as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Space Force during the SpaceWERX Pitch Day in mid-August. The company said Wednesday its Maxwell engine will operate on an Air Force Research Laboratory-developed green propellant in an effort to enable varying […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Begins 4th Ford-class Aircraft Carrier Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Begins 4th Ford-class Aircraft Carrier Construction

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […] More

  • Excella to Support IG Committee's Pandemic Spending Oversight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Contract Awards, News

    Excella to Support IG Committee’s Pandemic Spending Oversight

    Excella will use its artificial intelligence capabilities to help a committee under the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency develop audit and oversight strategies to ensure transparency in pandemic-related spending. The company said Wednesday it received a two-year contract to support the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s work to enhance oversight of more than […] More

  • Former BMT President Kai Skvarla Joins Serco as International Maritime Programs Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Executive Moves, News

    Former BMT President Kai Skvarla Joins Serco as International Maritime Programs Head

    Kai Skvarla, a two-decade industry veteran, was appointed as head of international maritime programs at Serco Group where he will be responsible for supervising maritime sector growth strategy and driving business development efforts across four company divisions. The former president of BMT Designers & Planners will now work with Serco divisional chief executives to pursue […] More

  • Spirent's Federal Arm Unveils Simulation Tech for Alternative RF Signals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Spirent’s Federal Arm Unveils Simulation Tech for Alternative RF Signals

    Spirent Communications‘ federal business arm has introduced a new test system designed for the simulation of alternative radio frequency navigation signals in static or dynamic setting. Spirent Federal Systems said Tuesday the development of its alternative RF navigation simulator came after recent government recommendations highlighting use of non-global navigation satellite system RF signals to achieve […] More

  • CAES to Equip Astrobotic Lunar Landers With Radiation Hardened Computing Tech; David Young Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News

    CAES to Equip Astrobotic Lunar Landers With Radiation Hardened Computing Tech; David Young Quoted

    CAES will deliver mission flight computer and radiation hardened microelectronics to Astrobotic for use on the space robotics company’s Peregrine and Griffin landers scheduled to conduct missions on the Moon in 2022 and 2023. GR712RC is a LEON3FT SPARC V8 flight control processor built by CAES to provide landers with low power, multi-core capability, the […] More

  • SAIC Books $98M Task Order for Air Force A10 Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Contract Awards, News

    SAIC Books $98M Task Order for Air Force A10 Support Services

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $98 million task order for a range of services in support of the U.S. Air Force A10-S and its component branches and the missions of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Branch. The company will provide A10 strategic plans and policy support services, including analytical, operational, […] More

  • Industry Vet Pamela Fusco Named Splunk CISO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Vet Pamela Fusco Named Splunk CISO

    Pamela Fusco brings her over three-decade of global enterprise security experience in her new role as chief information security officer at Splunk where she will be responsible for the software company’s overall information security infrastructure. Fusco will collaborate with the Splunk team on implementing cloud-based security strategy and taking data-driven approach to help customers strengthen […] More