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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. Air Force has awarded Boston Engineering a $150,000 contract to help build an embedded motor control technology for unmanned aerial vehicles. Boston Engineering aims to demonstrate a motor controller that could reduce noise of drone systems as well as support propulsion and sensor functions in unmanned aircraft, the company said Friday. Mark Smithers, […] More
A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has begun to test steam-powered engines and electrical generators of the U.S. Navy‘s USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. “Once the work and final testing, including sea trials, is complete, Lincoln will be redelivered to the Navy as one of the most technologically advanced Nimitz-class carriers in the fleet,” Chris Miner, […] More
Harkins Contracting has been awarded a $5.6 million contract to construct a single-story mission launch command center at NASA‘s Wallops Island, Virginia-based flight facility. NASA said Thursday it would use the center to manage and interface with rockets, payloads, launch pad support systems when the agency conducts spaceflight missions from the Wallops Flight Facility. The […] More
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report says that the July national unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent and about 0.9 percentage points lower than the jobless rate recorded during the same month last year. Nonfarm payrolls were up in 34 U.S. states and down in 16 states plus the District of Columbia for the month […] More
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has estimated the country’s real gross domestic product to have increased at a 3.7-percent annualized rate during the second quarter of calendar year 2015. BEA said Thursday that figure beats the advance estimate of 2.3 percent the bureau released in July. The bureau cites increases in personal consumption expenditures, state and local […] More
Northrop Grumman has dispatched the 150th KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force after the company performed depot-level maintenance work on the aircraft. “Deliveries were made on or ahead of schedule and met or exceeded quality expectations, which has been instrumental in the Air Force’s production of an untold number of combat […] More
Deltek has forecast the U.S. Defense Department will increase spending on big data platforms and services by 8.7 percent year-over-year from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019. Alex Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, wrote in a piece published Tuesday on C4ISR & Networks that the research firm expects DoD’s efforts to manage cybersecurity threats and […] More
EMC has partnered with Avnet to offer the VSPEX Blue converged infrastructure appliance to Australian enterprise clients beginning in early 2015. Avnet said Tuesday it will serve as a distributor of EMC’s platform to independent software vendors, system integrators and value-added resellers throughout Australia. The companies’ agreement also covers big data, storage and cloud computing […] More
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on existing methods for modeling and forecasting of low-frequency events. IARPA said Aug. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice it also seeks industry’s help to find alternative approaches to test and evaluate if rare event prediction techniques work. Areas of interest highlighted in […] More
New U.S. Office of Management and Budget guidelines on government information technology cybersecurity would raise the cost of compliance to reporting and auditing rules for contractors, John Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog post published Friday. Slye said OMB developed the guide to help federal agencies bolster the security of […] More
QTS and Vion have partnered to jointly deliver federally-approved public and hybrid cloud service offerings in the U.S. government sector. The companies aim to help customer agencies lower total cost of ownership, increase utilization rate and accelerate deployment of cloud-based systems designed to comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vion said Tuesday. […] More
AeroVironment booked $47.1 million in contracts during the past two months to help the U.S. Army sustain small hand-launched unmanned aircraft systems. The contracts cover sustainment work on RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma drones the company built for the military service, AeroVironment said Monday. The Army uses the Raven to support low-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. […] More
