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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.
General Atomics has won computational time on a pair of supercomputer machines through a Department of Energy-sponsored allocation program that will help the company perform fusion energy simulations. The company said Wednesday its team of scientists will have access to two high-performance computing systems located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and the […] More
Amazon Web Services and Splunk have initiated a project with 15 other technology companies to develop a common framework for standardizing cybersecurity data formats. Splunk said Wednesday the consortium aims to simplify taxonomy meant to help security professionals accelerate the process of ingesting and analyzing data through the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. The initiative builds […] More
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s government solutions business, said that information technology infrastructure combining on-premise and cloud computing platforms could help agencies unlock the potential of data to inform decision-making for critical missions. “Leveraging data will propel agencies forward by allowing teams to tackle the toughest challenges across the public sector space,” Carey wrote in […] More
Dynetics will provide cybersecurity training support to cross-functional U.S. Army teams at Fort Sill in Oklahoma under a $29 million contract from the Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium. The Leidos subsidiary said Tuesday it will partner with the Fires Innovation Science and Technology Accelerator to train military personnel in cyber electromagnetic activity-related threat detection, monitoring […] More
NewSat North America has received an $18 million task order to help the U.S. Army incorporate tactical radios onto military platforms. The order is the second for NewSat under the multiple-award Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems II contract vehicle, the company said Monday. Ace Electronic Defense Systems serves as a subcontractor on the project and will […] More
HighPoint Digital has secured a contract to continue helping the Commodity Futures Trading Commission maintain a data analysis and visualization platform. The recompete award will extend technical support services the Herndon, Virginia-based company has provided to CFTC over the past five years, HighPoint said Thursday. “Our team’s experience with the platform and the technologies that […] More
GRSi has booked a $48 million contract to provide information technology services to two offices under the National Institutes of Health. The company said Tuesday it will support NIH’s Office of Research Facilities and Office of Research Services in various areas such as Agile program management, infrastructure and cloud engineering and DevSecOps. Diane Yarnell, executive […] More
Mike Jackson, a former Air Force Special Operations Command officer, has joined Parry Labs as vice president of Air Force business development, he announced Monday in a LinkedIn post. He comes to the Alexandria, Virginia-based defense technology company from autonomous aerial logistics platform builder Volansi, where he most recently served as senior vice president of […] More
Raytheon Technologies has secured a potential $59.4 million contract to help a numbered U.S. Air Force organization update an enterprise system used to collect full-motion video from sensors. Under the five-year contract, Raytheon will provide the mission video distribution system to Ninth Air Force for ingestion, processing, dissemination, archiving and retrieval of sensor data, the […] More
In a recent conversation with our sister site GovCon Wire, Three Wire Systems Chief Technology Officer James Ebeler cited software development and cybersecurity as areas the company envisions for potential growth in the federal space. “As part of our strategy, we’re going to accelerate the growth on the services side of our business as well […] More
A General Dynamics business has delivered the first of John Lewis-class replenishment oilers to the U.S. Navy after the vessel underwent a series of crew demonstrations that were reviewed by the branch’s inspection and survey board. The service said Thursday that Military Sealift Command will serve as the operator of USNS John Lewis to deliver […] More
The U.S. Air Force’s F-15 combat aircraft, developed by a Boeing legacy company, recently hit its fifth decade in service. Boeing said Thursday the tactical fighter platform took off for its maiden voyage July 27, 1972, and that more than 1,500 units are part of military fleets across the globe. Prat Kumar, vice president of […] More
