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  • TransCore Awarded $1.1B in New Jersey Toll Infrastructure Modernization Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TransCore Awarded $1.1B in New Jersey Toll Infrastructure Modernization Contracts

    TransCore, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, has secured $1.1 billion in contracts from two agencies to help update toll collection systems in New Jersey. The potential 10-year $914 million contract with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority covers the design, installation, maintenance and operation of tolling systems on two of the busiest roads in the U.S., […] More

  • Booz Allen Unveils Tech Innovation Center; Susan Penfield Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Unveils Tech Innovation Center; Susan Penfield Quoted

    Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a new center that seeks to demonstrate emerging technologies that could help address challenges associated with national security, defense and climate resilience. The Helix Center for Innovation is a 9,422-square-foot facility in Washington, D.C., and comes with more than 30 simulations, hands-on activations, tactile demonstrations and immersive environments in emerging […] More

  • Mark Lewis, John 'JV' Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Lewis, John ‘JV’ Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines

    The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […] More

  • Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted

    Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […] More

  • Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract

    Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security

    Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said that although the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program have differences when it comes to their compliance assessment, both standards complement each other in safeguarding data and national security and advancing the interests of defense contractors. He wrote in a […] More

  • Marc Boysworth Named Aeyon Senior Principal Data Scientist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marc Boysworth Named Aeyon Senior Principal Data Scientist

    Data scientist Marc Boysworth has joined government services provider Aeyon as senior principal data scientist. He brings over two decades of expertise in data science and analytics as he leads the Aeyon Center of Excellence and helps improve ACE’s automation, data culture, technical infrastructure, advanced analytics, data governance, knowledge management and data visualization offerings, the […] More

  • Jacobs, Palantir Build Analytics Tool for Waste, Wastewater Treatment Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs, Palantir Build Analytics Tool for Waste, Wastewater Treatment Facilities

    Jacobs and Palantir Technologies have developed and piloted a data analytics platform designed to gather and analyze data from water and wastewater treatment plants to help operators manage operations and maintenance of such facilities. The two companies used process optimization platforms and machine learning modules to build the analytics tool in the Palantir Foundry operating […] More

  • Mitre Engenuity Unveils Results of ATT&CK Evaluations of 16 Cybersecurity Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Engenuity Unveils Results of ATT&CK Evaluations of 16 Cybersecurity Vendors

    Mitre Engenuity has released the results of its assessment of 16 security service providers and their capabilities to analyze the behavior of a cyberthreat actor as part of the ATT&CK Evaluations program. The Evals program’s purple team assessed the companies using the Mitre ATT&CK knowledge base of cyber adversary behavior to emulate the techniques and […] More

  • NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted

    NetImpact Strategies has received the Preferred Solution badge from Microsoft for its commercial-off-the-shelf software designed to help organizations automate the implementation of information security policies and manage their security posture. NetImpact said Tuesday its DX360 Security Accreditation, Remediation, Management of Operations and Risk in Microsoft AppSource is a cybersecurity platform that could help organizations manage […] More

  • Northrop Conducts Initial Flight Tests of Integrated Battle Command System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Conducts Initial Flight Tests of Integrated Battle Command System

    Northrop Grumman completed a series of operational test flights of the Integrated Battle Command System, which the company built for the U.S. Army, as part of the initial operational test and evaluation phase. The IOT&E test flights kicked off in January and ran for 10 months at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Northrop […] More