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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.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is exploring sources of application or software programs that VA can potentially use to verify credentials of employees and contractors who access its facilities. In a request for information posted Aug. 26 on FedBizOpps, VA said it seeks to identify a new credential management tool for the department’s Personal […] More
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to help New Zealand’s navy build a new navigation system for two Anzac-class frigates. The company will convert the warships’ MK49 inertial navigation units to an MK39 configuration, Northrop said Wednesday. Todd Leavitt, vice president of maritime systems at Northrop’s electronic systems business, said […] More
The U.S. Air Force plans to issue a contract for research and development work on a live, virtual and constructive mission training platform for warfighter readiness activities. The AF Research Laboratory wants to build and demonstrate an LVC training toolset that can operate with various computer networks and architectures, the military branch said in a […] More
A Time Warner Cable subsidiary has adopted a Dell network firewall appliance to deliver managed security services to the telecommunication firm’s customers in the education sector. Time Warner Cable Business Class collaborates with Secure Designs , a premium partner of Dell, to help U.S. school district clients protect their information technology assets, Dell said Tuesday. […] More
Northrop Grumman has experimented with an occulting technology the company built to help astronomers view and study celestial objects from Earth. The company demonstrated circular and petal-shaped designs of its starshade in conjunction with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope during engineering tests at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Northrop said Tuesday. It marks the first […] More
Maximus has launched a new suite of DecisionPoint tools for state government agencies to manage healthcare services for senior citizens as well as people with disabilities and eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. The DecisionPoint for Long-Term Services & Supports offering uses a patient-centered model designed to help states coordinate care of LTC recipients at […] More
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with Lockheed Martin-owned company Systems Made Simple to update an infrastructure that VA uses to schedule medical appointments for veterans. Systems Made Simple said Monday that VA’s Medical Appointment Scheduling System will be built to help manage the department’s electronic health records, clinical workflow and scheduling activities. […] More
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has awarded CenturyLink a contract to migrate the agency’s analog phone systems to a cloud-hosted voice over Internet protocol infrastructure. CenturyLink said Monday it will help implement and operate the VoIP service with the company’s Managed Enterprise: Hosted Collaboration Solution. Kenny Wyatt, senior vice president of business solutions […] More
Lockheed Martin has invested in Peloton Technology in an effort to help further develop and commercialize the latter company’s truck platooning technology. Peloton said Monday it raised $17 million in a recent funding round from Lockheed and several other investors, including Intel Capital and Denso International America. Peloton’s technology employs a radar-based active braking system, […] More
Northrop Grumman, ViaSat and Optus have partnered to offer a technology for Australian armed forces to leverage a wideband global satellite communications network. The alliance proposed to give the Australian military access to the Satcom Operations and Planning Element, a Northrop-built network management system designed to integrate with WGS, Northrop said Monday. Ian Irving, chief […] More
Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More
