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  • Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief

    Adam Overstreet, former senior counsel at HII, has been named vice president of legal affairs and chief compliance officer at Austal USA. His new responsibilities include overseeing legal issues in employment, labor and commercial transactions, as well as leading continuous implementation and enhancement of Austal USA’s compliance activities, the company said Tuesday. Overstreet’s law background […] More

  • DOD Seeks Tactical Augmented Reality Tech Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Seeks Tactical Augmented Reality Tech Innovation

    The Department of Defense is looking for companies capable of developing a tactical augmented reality system that can give soldiers immediate access to mission critical data and boost their situational awareness. In a notice published by the Defense Innovation Unit, the agency called on vendors to submit proposals for TAR technology to help warfighters perform […] More

  • DHS S&T Taps Amentum to Develop New C4ISR Tech; Jill Bruning Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS S&T Taps Amentum to Develop New C4ISR Tech; Jill Bruning Quoted

    The Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate awarded Amentum a potential five-year, $48 million contract to develop and prototype new technologies for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The project will involve research, development, testing and evaluation of promising innovations in space surveillance and communication sensors, advanced robotics, unmanned aerial systems […] More

  • State Department Clears Possible Sale of BAE-Made APKWS-II Laser-guided Rocket to UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department Clears Possible Sale of BAE-Made APKWS-II Laser-guided Rocket to UK

    The State Department approved a possible $31.2 million sale of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System-II laser-guided munitions to the U.K. government. Execution of the contract will be led by BAE Systems, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which notified Congress of the deal on Friday. The U.K. government ordered 768 of single-variant, all-up […] More

  • Lockheed Subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC Appoints Brian Sutterfield as CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC Appoints Brian Sutterfield as CEO

    Brian Sutterfield, former systems engineering director at Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business, has been named as CEO of Lockheed subsidiary ForwardEdge ASIC, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday. ForwardEdge was established in a bid to fortify Lockheed’s design capabilities in application-specific integrated circuit and microelectronics, Sutterfield said. He spent most of his career at […] More

  • NSF Calls for Collaborators on Advanced Networking Systems Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Calls for Collaborators on Advanced Networking Systems Research

    The National Science Foundation is inviting federal agencies, software companies, and academic and research institutions, to join its research effort to drive new innovations in advanced networking systems. NSF said it intends to invest in new public-private partnerships that can design and investigate the potential of next-generation computing, networking, sensing and communications. The agency published […] More

  • BlueHalo Equips Navy R&D Center With 1st High-Energy Laser Diagnostic Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueHalo Equips Navy R&D Center With 1st High-Energy Laser Diagnostic Tool

    BlueHalo has turned over and installed its first high-energy laser diagnostic tool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. The Laser Instrumented Diagnostic Suite is among four units that will be delivered to U.S. Navy test sites across the country, BlueHalo said Thursday. The company won the contract to develop LIDS in April […] More

  • Navy Group Sail Exercise Showcases General Atomics-Built SeaGuardian UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Group Sail Exercise Showcases General Atomics-Built SeaGuardian UAS

    An MQ-9B unmanned aircraft system from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. took part in the U.S. Navy’s Group Sail Exercise. The SeaGuardian demonstrated its ability to coordinate with Navy cruisers, carriers, destroyers and aircraft in maritime domain awareness and other missions, the company Tuesday. MQ-9B self-deployed from the builder’s El Mirage, California, facility and traveled […] More

  • DOD Invests in Expansion of Wearable Infectious Disease Detector Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Invests in Expansion of Wearable Infectious Disease Detector Project

    The Department of Defense has infused an additional $10 million into the Defense Innovation Unit’s Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project, which tested a wearable technology prototype for early detection of COVID-19. The funding enables the RATE program to include 4,500 new devices in its study and expand distribution of the technology within the department, DIU said […] More

  • Ensco to Bring HMI, Certification Products & Services to Army Aviation Summit; Jeff Stevens Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Bring HMI, Certification Products & Services to Army Aviation Summit; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    Ensco will exhibit its products and services for human machine interface as well as airworthiness safety and security at the U.S. Army’s Aviation Mission Solutions Summit. The engineering company said Wednesday that it will feature the IData HMI toolkit, IDataMap 2D and 3D digital mapping platform and IGL software graphics renderer. Ensco’s certification services are […] More

  • Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Visits CIA to Hand Over Wash100 Awards to Jennifer Ewbank, Nand Mulchandani - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Visits CIA to Hand Over Wash100 Awards to Jennifer Ewbank, Nand Mulchandani

    2023 Wash100 Award honorees Jennifer Ewbank, CIA’s deputy director for digital innovation, and Nand Mulchandani, chief technology officer, were presented with their plaques by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Garrettson paid a visit to the CIA headquarters during the final weeks of the Wash100 popular vote competition, which currently places Ewbank at number 30 out […] More

  • EPA Validates General Atomics' Novel Treatment for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Scott Forney Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EPA Validates General Atomics’ Novel Treatment for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Scott Forney Quoted

    The Environmental Protection Agency verified the effectiveness of an industrial supercritical water oxidation system in destroying a potentially harmful class of chemical substances. General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business said Monday its iSWCO process incinerated at least 99.99 percent of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances present in firefighting foam, and its findings were documented and affirmed by EPA. […] More