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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.
Space Exploration Technologies could submit a bid to the U.S. Air Force in pursuit of an upcoming contract to support a planned 2018 launch of a Global Positioning System III military satellite, DoD Buzz reported Friday. Brendan McGarry writes the Air Force will gather proposals for GPS III satellite launch services under its Evolved Expendable […] More
PwC has released a report that charts how defense agencies in 60 countries allocate their budgets and strategize in the face of security challenges worldwide. The company said Wednesday it found that many NATO members and partner countries decreased their defense spending in recent years due to fiscal and economic factors as well as challenging […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a master government distributor of a Load DynamiX platform intended to help customers evaluate the performance of pre-production storage appliances. Load DynamiX said Thursday it will collaborate with Carahsoft to offer federal agencies storage performance analytics technology through the NASA-run Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicle. Maryam Emdadi […] More
LogRhythm has added new automation, data management and incident response orchestration tools to a unified cybersecurity offering designed to help enterprises address sophisticated threats. The company said Thursday version 7 of its security intelligence and analytics platform works to collect, examine and prioritize events from multiple disparate information sources. Chris Petersen, LogRhythm co-founder, chief technology […] More
A Visiongain study, released by ReportLinker, forecasts global revenue from border security platforms and services will be approximately $16.4 billion this year. The 364-page market research report examines key factors that Visiongain believes can affect worldwide, regional and national spending on products designed to help authorities monitor cross-border activities, ReportLinker said Wednesday. Visiongain categorized the […] More
CACI International and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will collaborate to test a company-designed sensor technology meant to help authorities to locate unmanned aircraft systems. Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker told House aviation subcommittee members during a hearing Wednesday that FAA wants to examine the safety and security functions of CACI’s technology and if the platform […] More
The U.S. Army is seeking a contractor to help configure and make the AH-64E Guardian attack helicopter platform conduct missions with an unmanned aerial platform as a team. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice published Tuesday, the Army said it also aims to embed a radar frequency interferometer and an interoperability function into the AH-64E […] More
The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Engility have announced the availability of a Vricon-made application designed to help government users access satellite imagery-derived three-dimensional content. Engility said Monday that Vricon’s Explorer tool is now available on the agency’s GEOINT app store. TASC, a subsidiary of Engility, served as a broker between Vricon and NGA through […] More
General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary and Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division are awaiting the U.S. Navy‘s decision on their proposed teaming arrangement for the Ohio-class submarine replacement program, Defense News reported Monday. Christopher Cavas writes John Casey, executive vice president of marine systems at General Dynamics, said the companies submitted a work-sharing plan to […] More
ActioNet has received a task order modification to provide additional cloud infrastructure support services to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration on demand. NNSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the modification expands ActioNet’s work under a five-year, $6.3 million infrastructure-as-a-service contract originally awarded in February 2013. The company will help reconfigure an IaaS […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed the integration of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built propulsion subsystem into a small satellite Ball is building for NASA‘s Green Propellant Infusion Mission. NASA aims to launch the Ball Commercial Platform-100 spacecraft equipped with Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Green Propellant Propulsion System into orbit next year, Ball Aerospace said Monday. Aerojet Rocketdyne delivered […] More
Boeing has built and integrated a new visual display technology into the F-22 Raptor flight simulation centers of the U.S. Air Force. The company equipped the F-22 Mission Training Centers with its Constant Resolution Visual Systems with the goal of helping fighter pilots train in 360-degree simulated flying missions, Boeing said Friday. The Air Force […] More
