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  • DOT Seeks to Modify Volpe Center IT Support Contract With KBR - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOT Seeks to Modify Volpe Center IT Support Contract With KBR

    The Department of Transportation plans to add $50 million to the ceiling of a contract awarded to KBR to provide mission information technology support services for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to a notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov, DOT also intends to extend the ordering period for the […] More

  • Iridium Appoints Kalliroi Landry as Government Programs Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Appoints Kalliroi Landry as Government Programs Director

    Iridium Communications has named Kalliroi Landry, a retired U.S. Space Force colonel, as government programs director, Fierce Network reported Monday. In this capacity, Landry will facilitate engagement with Department of Defense communities to advance data sharing, collaboration, transparency and adoption of commercial platforms. Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of government programs at Iridium, said Landry […] More

  • Ray Johnson Named TurbineOne Board Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Johnson Named TurbineOne Board Director

    TurbineOne has appointed Ray Johnson, an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, to its board of directors. In a LinkedIn post, the San Francisco-based analytics software company said Johnson brings to the board his experience leading organizations and developing innovative growth strategies. ‘I am delighted to be joining the TurbineOne Board. Rapid decision support at […] More

  • Viasat Delivers VS3 F1 Satellite Broadband Connectivity to Marine Corps; Susan Miller Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat Delivers VS3 F1 Satellite Broadband Connectivity to Marine Corps; Susan Miller Quoted

    Viasat has started delivering satellite communications service to the U.S. Marine Corps through the ViaSat-3 satellite network. The company said Thursday the Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38 and the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment have become the first military operational units to use the ViaSat-3 F1 satellite service. The ViaSat-3 constellation works to deliver broadband connectivity […] More

  • Mitre Seeks to Help Agencies Train AI Foundation Models Using New Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Seeks to Help Agencies Train AI Foundation Models Using New Supercomputer

    Mitre has announced a new computing capability designed to help federal agencies train and deploy artificial intelligence foundation models for use in supporting critical government missions, such as advancing cybersecurity, enhancing weather modeling and facilitating the delivery of benefits to citizens. The nonprofit organization said Wednesday the Mitre Federal AI Sandbox is a supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA […] More

  • Fearless, North Stone Unveil Government Tech-Focused Joint Venture; Alka Bhave Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fearless, North Stone Unveil Government Tech-Focused Joint Venture; Alka Bhave Quoted

    Fearless and North Stone have formed a joint venture, called Northern Sky, focused on delivering advanced technology platforms designed to help customers in defense, intelligence, civilian government agencies and health care sectors meet their technology needs and advance critical missions. Fearless said Tuesday Northern Sky will support government agency clients across several areas, including digital […] More

  • Kratos, Radisys to Collaborate on 5G Non-Terrestrial Network Tech Development; Greg Quiggle Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, Radisys to Collaborate on 5G Non-Terrestrial Network Tech Development; Greg Quiggle Quoted

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Radisys have partnered to build cloud-native 5G non-terrestrial network capabilities to deliver 5G mobile broadband connectivity over satellites. Kratos said Monday the companies will make the 5G-NTN offerings available through its software-defined satellite ground system called Kratos OpenSpace Platform. “Together, we are building a cloud native end-to-end 5G solution […] More

  • Peraton Labs Secures $100M in R&D Contracts; Chris Valentino Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Labs Secures $100M in R&D Contracts; Chris Valentino Quoted

    Since May, Peraton Labs has received nearly $100 million in contracts to provide advanced technology, research, development and engineering services to support customers’ defense and national security missions. Peraton said Wednesday the awards call for its innovation hub to leverage technical expertise and capabilities across the areas of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, networking, C5ISR, […] More

  • Lindsey Hill, Emma Ro Take on New Director Roles at cBEYONData - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lindsey Hill, Emma Ro Take on New Director Roles at cBEYONData

    Professional services firm cBEYONData has appointed Lindsey Hill as director of internal operations and Emma Ro as director of client services, enterprise strategy and solutions. The Arlington, Virginia-based company announced the leadership moves in separate LinkedIn posts published Thursday. Lindsey Hill In her new role, Hill will continue to oversee knowledge management and marketing operations […] More

  • Mitre, Industry Team Up on AI Incident Sharing Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, Industry Team Up on AI Incident Sharing Initiative

    Mitre has worked with more than a dozen companies on a new initiative that seeks to improve awareness of cyberthreats and defense of artificial intelligence-enabled systems through rapid and secure information sharing. The nonprofit organization said Wednesday the AI Incident Sharing initiative is part of the Secure AI project of Mitre’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense […] More

  • Lockheed Receives $3.3B in Navy Contracts for Trident II D5 Missile Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives $3.3B in Navy Contracts for Trident II D5 Missile Work

    Lockheed Martin has secured two U.S. Navy contracts worth approximately $3.3 billion combined to support work on the Trident II D5 missile program. Trident II D5 is a submarine-launched fleet ballistic missile currently aboard the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class and U.K. navy’s Vanguard-class submarines. The Department of Defense said Monday the first award valued at about […] More

  • Parsons Delivers Initial Capabilities for NOAA Traffic Coordination System for Space; Mike Kushin Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Delivers Initial Capabilities for NOAA Traffic Coordination System for Space; Mike Kushin Quoted

    Parsons has delivered initial capabilities of the Traffic Coordination System for Space, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Space Commerce program that seeks to provide space situational awareness and space traffic coordination services for civil and private space operators. The company said Monday that Phase 1.0 TraCSS will enable the community of beta […] More