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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.
Textron has received U.S. Air Force certification for a multimission aircraft offering designed to help military operators perform light attack and counterinsurgency missions. The company said Monday it will continue to sell the Beechcraft AT-6E Wolverine platform to the global defense market via either a direct commercial transaction or a foreign military sales process approved […] More
The Space Systems Command has awarded Orion Space Solutions a $44.5 million other transaction agreement to create small prototype spacecraft for a U.S. Space Force experiment designed to test refueling service and autonomous collaboration approaches in orbit. Under the OTA, Orion Space will perform spacecraft Louisville, Colorado-based Orion will help build a constellation of up […] More
David Ray, senior vice president of operations and lead for the space business unit at Science Applications International Corp., said he sees a prime opportunity for the company to offer systems integration services to the Department of Defense’s planned military sensing and data transport system in low Earth orbit, Breaking Defense reported Monday. He told […] More
Boeing has started to install a BAE Systems-built digital avionics technology onto two U.S. Air Force F-15E jets as part of the branch’s electronic warfare system modernization efforts. The two companies will help the service equip a total of 43 aircraft units with the Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System, which replaces the current […] More
Australia intends to procure 80 extended-range units of Lockheed Martin‘s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile system from the U.S. government under a $235 million foreign military sale cleared by the State Department. The Australian air force could use the AGM-158B JASSM-ER with fighter aircraft platforms such as the F-35 and F/A-18F Super Hornet to perform future […] More
Sunny Singh, president and CEO of Aeyon, said the company sees complementary cultures and capabilities as key factors when considering potential targets for a merger or an acquisition. “Mergers and acquisitions don’t fail because of contracts, they don’t fail because of revenue or money or anything else. They generally fail because of personalities and cultures,” […] More
Carahsoft Technology and cybersecurity platform vendor Conceal have teamed up to help government customers adopt technology built to protect endpoint devices, networks and cloud environments from malicious threats. The Conceal Platform, which comprises three integrated products, is available from Carahsoft or its resellers for procurement by federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s Schedule contract […] More
Timothy Rumford, formerly an operating unit director within Northrop Grumman‘s tactical space systems division, has been appointed vice president of operations at Leesburg, Virginia-based aerospace technical services provider Optimum Technologies. Rumford comes to OpTech with three decades of aerospace industry experience across business, program management and engineering areas, the company said Monday. In his previous […] More
A General Atomics affiliate secured a contract to supply eight extended-range units of the Reaper unmanned aircraft system and is scheduled to commence initial aircraft delivery in the winter. The Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron-3 plans to use the MQ-9A ER platform for littoral regiment training as part of the Force Design 2030 strategy, the […] More
Workday has been cleared under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to sell a cloud-based technology offering designed to help agencies manage human resources and financial functions. The FedRAMP Moderate certification marks the enterprise management platform vendor’s entry into the federal landscape and signifies its compliance with government cloud security requirements, the company said […] More
The U.S. Navy has declared a Milestone C decision that allows defense contractor Tactical Air Support to begin reconfiguration work on F-5 tactical fighter planes. Nevada-based Tactical Air will help the Navy’s Specialized and Proven Aircraft Program Office update the F-5E/F airframe and engine into the N/F configuration in support of fleet adversary training requirements, […] More
Panasonic Group‘s energy business plans to invest $4 billion to establish a manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas, for rechargeable car batteries and expects to create 4,000 jobs through the potential project. The state government approved an application by the company to receive an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion incentive to build the lithium-ion electric vehicle […] More
