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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in Contract Awards, News

BlueHalo Secures Air Force Contract for Antenna Demo Support; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted

BlueHalo will help develop and demonstrate antenna technologies for military telemetry, tracking and command operations under a three-year, $5.9 million contract with the Small Satellite Branch of the U.S. Air Force’s research laboratory. The award is for the Phased Arrays for Ground Segment Satellite Communication Applications system and covers support for the Wide Area Scanning […] More

May 20, 2021, 7:05 am
in Executive Moves, News

Fortem Appoints Military Vet Wayne Phelps as Federal Business Development Director

Wayne Phelps, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and a former senior project manager for unmanned aircraft system at SAM Companies, has joined Fortem Technologies as a director who will drive its federal business development. His responsibilities include supporting the Pleasant Grove, Utah-based defense company’s efforts to evolve and acquire more work with government […] More

May 20, 2021, 5:05 am
in Contract Awards, News

Parsons Receives Contract Extension for Georgia’s Interchange Reconstruction Project

Parsons has received a $27 million contract from the Georgia Department of Transportation for the I-285/I-20 East Interchange reconstruction project, under which the company will continue to serve as the owner’s representative and provide general engineering consultancy. The company said Wednesday the Georgia DOT charge order includes concept development, technical reviews, environmental documentation and inspection […] More

May 20, 2021, 3:05 am
in Government Technology, News

CGI to Enhance Michigan’s SIGMA System Under 10-Year Agreement; Tim Hurlebaus Quoted

CGI will modernize the State of Michigan’s enterprise resource planning system with the company’s integrated ERP platform capabilities as part of a 10-year agreement between the two parties. The cloud-based CGI Advantage platform will be used to enhance Michigan’s Statewide Integrated Governmental Management Applications system by equipping it with embedded advanced analytics and intuitive and […] More

May 19, 2021, 11:35 am
in Government Technology, News

Second Front, TurbineOne Partnership to Provide Government Customers With Tech Demo Support

Second Front Systems and TurbineOne have teamed up to offer a software as a service platform meant to provide government agencies with capabilities to request technical demonstrations and make engineering-based assessments in support of their acquisition efforts. A team of engineers and data scientists from TurbineOne will help military and government customers by leveraging prototyping […] More

May 19, 2021, 6:05 am
in Government Technology, News

Telephonics’ Surveillance System Granted DOD AIMS Platform Certification

Telephonics has received a certification from the Department of Defense that validated the compliance of the company’s situational awareness system with the requirements of the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System Identification Friend or Foe Program Office. The Mode 5 Operationally Autonomous Surveillance System was granted a platform level certification after completing DOD AIMS 1201, […] More

May 18, 2021, 6:05 am
in Contract Awards, News

SES Subsidiary Provides Combatant Command With Medium Earth Orbit Satellite Services

The U.S. government business arm of SES has secured an $11.8 million task order under a $516.7 million blanket purchase agreement to deliver medium Earth orbit high-throughput satellite services in support of the Department of Defense. SES Government Solutions has provided a combatant command with a reachback capability through its O3b MEO platform.

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May 17, 2021, 9:10 am
in Executive Moves, News

Juliana Vida Appointed as Splunk’s Group VP, Chief Strategy Adviser

Juliana Vida, a U.S. Navy veteran, has taken on the roles of group vice president and chief strategy adviser at Spunk where she most recently served as chief technical adviser for the software company's public sector business.

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May 17, 2021, 3:20 am
in Government Cloud, Government Technology, News

Box to Provide HHS With Cloud Content Management Platform

The Department of Health and Human Services will use a Box Inc.-developed cloud content management technology in an effort to ensure security and privacy of sensitive information during health services delivery and to identify new ways to work in the cloud.

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May 14, 2021, 5:29 am
in Government Technology, News

NASA Announces $105M Investment in Tech Development Efforts of Small Businesses

NASA has made 140 new awards to 127 U.S. small businesses to help them develop, demonstrate and deliver technologies under the second phase of the space agency's Small Business Innovation Research program. The $105 million investment will provide awardees with up to $750,000 funding each to advance technologies for potential commercialization.

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May 14, 2021, 4:06 am
in Cybersecurity News, Executive Moves, News

Industry Vet Brian Keating Joins Cybersecurity Company Netizen as Finance Director

Brian Keating, former chief financial officer at Collective FLS, has been named as director of finance at Netizen, where he will be tasked to oversee the Allentown, Pennsylvania-based cybersecurity company's corporate accounting and finance operations.

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May 14, 2021, 3:21 am
in Executive Moves, News

Talkdesk Names James Ward, John Bastin to VP Roles to Support Public Sector Initiatives

San Franciso-based software company Talkdesk has appointed James Ward, a former Genesys executive, as vice president of regulated industries and named John Bastin, who was chief sales officer at GCR Inc., as VP of public sector industry strategy.

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May 13, 2021, 4:57 am