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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
Eugene Chang oversees business strategy development and execution for the U.S. subsidiary of British defense technology company QinetiQ. He also provides strategic leadership to other areas such as mergers and acquisitions, investments and partnerships in his current role as chief strategy officer. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Chang said that QinetiQ looks into factors […] More
Luis Lara, a nearly three-decade U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been appointed director of business development at CGI’s federal subsidiary. The retired colonel shared the news of his appointment at CGI Federal in a LinkedIn post. Lara served as program manager for training systems at Marine Corps Systems Command from June 2018 until his retirement […] More
Speedcast subsidiary UltiSat has booked a multiyear contract to provide communications support for the Antarctic operations of a polar-orbiting environmental satellite constellation managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. UltiSat said Thursday it intends to use teleport facilities and a global interconnect network to deliver fiber optic terrestrial connectivity to the Joint Polar Satellite […] More
BAE Systems will equip the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 Eagle aircraft fleet with technology designed for global positioning system signal reception and jamming protection under a $13 million contract. The service intends to use BAE’s Digital GPS Anti-jam Receiver to avoid disruption of space-based positioning and navigation services when fighter jets operate in contested mission […] More
The U.S. Space Force and three companies have concluded the preliminary review design phase of a program seeking technology products that will allow military personnel to use allied satellite positioning, navigation and timing signals. BAE Systems, L3Harris Technologies and Raytheon Technologies completed the assessment process for receiver designs over the past three months as part […] More
Maria Roat, former deputy federal chief information officer and a previous Wash100 Award winner, has been appointed to the advisory board of Baltimore, Maryland-based digital experience platform vendor Aquia. The company said Wednesday that Roat is the third member of Aquia’s board tasked with advising executive staff and shareholders on matters related to growth strategy […] More
Michael Smith serves a vice president and chief engineer at Vectrus where he is responsible for programs related to electromagnetic spectrum engineering, digital integration and comparative technology. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Smith overviewed how the government is addressing a commercial demand for spectrum, Vectrus’ 5G-driven warehouse project with the U.S. Navy and his […] More
Raytheon Technologies subsidiary Collins Aerospace has received a five-year, $68.6 million contract to supply the U.S. Army with positioning, navigation and timing systems designed to be installed on vehicles. Army Contracting Command received only one bid for the Mounted Assured PNT procurement contract through an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The system […] More
A Maximus subsidiary is deploying three additional mobile units to facilitate medical examinations meant to help the Department of Veterans Affairs determine retired service personnel’s eligibility for disability benefits. The company said Tuesday its Veterans Evaluation Services business administers eye, hearing and oral exams as well as general health checkups through the VES fleet. “This […] More
Scott Pitcher, formerly a contract manager and technology protection engineering subject matter leader at System High, has been promoted to lead the security engineering firm’s analytical research hub as technical director. He will oversee the development and deployment of protection technology offerings for the national security sector through the System High Analytical Research Center, the […] More
Kristen Summers, operating unit chief technology officer at Microsoft Federal, provided an overview of commercial tools the company has built to help federal customers integrate disparate data from multiple sources, collaborate in a classified environment and operationalize artificial intelligence models. “It’s really our goal to empower federal missions in innovative secure and compliant ways,” Summers […] More
Noblis has received a U.S. patent for a machine learning-based method generating models that can imitate different security checkpoint setups and show how each configuration responds to various kinds of threat. The Reston, Virginia-based nonprofit organization said Thursday its iterative modeling system employs algorithms based on concepts from rule-based adversarial games. Noblis researchers particularly utilized chess […] More
