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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Atlantis Resources has installed off the coast of Scotland its first 1.5 megawatt turbine with the Lockheed Martin-built subsystems designed to generate tidal energy. The deployment is part of the MeyGen project that seeks to produce approximately 400 MW of tidal energy to provide electricity to up to 175,000 households in Scotland, Lockheed said Thursday. […] More
L3 Technologies has secured a potential two-year, $17.3 million contract to supply 800-horsepower transmission systems to the South Korean army’s infantry fighting and light-recovery vehicles. The company expects product deliveries to start in the third quarter of 2017 and conclude by 2019, L3 said Thursday. Michael Strianese, L3 chairman and CEO, said the contract seeks […] More
A new report by IHS Markit says defense budgets in the Middle East will start to increase in 2017 driven by the region’s plans to ramp up acquisition of new military platforms and capabilities in support of regional operations. IHS Jane’s predicts a 2 to 3 percent rise in Middle East defense budget by 2018 and expects […] More
General Micro Systems has received a multi-year contract to provide rugged display devices to the U.S. Navy. GMS has started to deploy its SD19 SmartView display systems to replace legacy display tools aboard several Navy ships as part of the service branch’s fleet modernization efforts, the company said Thursday. SD19 has an Intel-based computer that […] More
A new HyTrust survey has found that 25 percent of healthcare organizations that adopt public cloud platforms do not subject patient information to data encryption. HyTrust polled 51 healthcare organizations and biotech firms and found that 63 percent of the respondents plan to use cloud platforms from multiple vendors, the company said in a Feb. 15 news release. Eighty-two […] More
Joe Kim, a senior vice president and global chief technology officer at SolarWinds, has said federal information technology professionals should work to protect agencies’ IT systems amid the increasing number of laptops, mobile phones and other devices used on government networks. Kim wrote in a GCN article published Friday that government IT professionals should perform […] More
Orbital ATK has received international orders for Bushmaster cannons and medium-caliber ammunitions worth approximately $600 million over the last three months. The company said Monday it expects delivery schedules for MK44 and M230 Bushmaster Chain Guns, target practice and tactical munitions and aftermarket support to run through 2020. Mike Kahn, president of Orbital ATK’s defense systems […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency unveiled a new collection of digital elevation models of the Arctic at Esri’s two-day Federal GIS conference that kicked off Monday in Washington. NGA presented the new collection as part of the ArcticDEM project – a public-private partnership between NGA, Esri and the Polar Geospatial Center that seeks to generate high-resolution […] More
NASA has picked two proposals to establish research institutes that will work on space technology platforms designed to extend human presence in long-duration exploration missions. The agency will award each Space Technology Research Institute up to $15 million in funds over five years to develop technology platforms in the areas of space infrastructure and biomanufacturing in […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. has announced plans to set up a new office in Adelaide, South Australia, after it received a seven-year contract to provide desktop computers, tablets, laptops and other digital devices as well as end-user computing services to government agencies in the state. CSC will make a $5 million investment to establish the new office in […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded nearly $2 million in research contracts to four companies that seek to facilitate GEOINT analysis through the development of automation and artificial intelligence technology platforms. NGA said Wednesday it awarded the contracts to Raytheon, Concurrent Technologies Corp., HRL Laboratories and Soar Technology in January under the AI and automation topic of a […] More
General Atomics has fused approximately 240,000 pounds of superconductor to build the first module of the core of a tokamak facility designed to generate fusion energy. The initial module will be part of the Central Solenoid, an electromagnetic structure composed of six modules that will serve as the central part of the ITER magnetic fusion facility […] More
