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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.
Revenues of the global military unmanned aerial vehicles market are projected to grow from $3.87 billion last year to $5.26 billion by 2022, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan. The market analyst said Wednesday that long-endurance UAV systems and advanced propulsion technologies could shape the market’s future growth. Frost & Sullivan predicts the sector would […] More
ViON has unveiled a new cloud service designed to help government and commercial organizations secure information technology infrastructure through on-premise private cloud environments. The ViON on Demand program offers service level agreements for enterprise IT maintenance, upgrade and managed work, ViON said Thursday. Tom Frana, ViON’s CEO, said the company aims for clients to save […] More
Bechtel has won a contract to provide design and engineering services for planned liquefied natural gas terminal on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The company plans to use a modular strategy intended to hasten construction work on the liquefaction and export facilities of Louisiana LNG Energy LLC, Bechtel said Wednesday. Louisiana LNG Energy aims […] More
Velodyne Lidar plans to integrate its remote sensing technology onto a QinetiQ North America-built unmanned ground system for a demonstration at an upcoming robotics conference in Boston. The companies will showcase Velodyne’s VLP-16 LiDAR Puck sensor mounted on QinetiQ NA’s TALON robot at the RoboBusiness forum to be held at Hynes Convention Center from Oct. […] More
General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions has expanded a collaboration with Bit9 + Carbon Black to help clients identify and mitigate threats at the endpoint level. The partnership allows Fidelis’ security team to use a Carbon Black endpoint protection system in conjunction with the Fidelis XPS anti-malware appliance to disrupt the cyber “kill chain,” Fidelis said […] More
FireEye has unveiled a new cybersecurity platform that aims to help enterprise users expedite the process of analyzing security incidents. The Investigation Analysis System is intended to operate as a standalone appliance or with the company’s forensics technology that works to extract metadata and monitor network traffic, FireEye said Monday. The company designed the platform […] More
TECOM has partnered with Inmarsat to produce and market an antenna technology for government customers of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications service. The companies agreed to offer a TECOM-built satcom antenna system that aims to provide Ka-band broadband access to aviation organizations across the public sector, Inmarsat said Monday. Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat’s U.S. […] More
TE SubCom has won a $12.3 million contract to build a fiber-optic cable technology to link U.S. Navy sonar systems on the ocean floor to surveillance facilities ashore, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes the company will lay approximately 963 miles of submarine cable that is designed to interface with the Integrated […] More
Deltek expects the federal government to award up to $206 billion in fiscal year 2015 contracts for information technology support and other professional services, Federal Times reported Sunday. Aaron Boyd writes that projection represents a $145 billion increase from Deltek’s estimated total value of the top 20 GovCon opportunities during FY 2014. The General Services […] More
Inmarsat has started offering wideband communications services to U.S. military customers through the company’s mobile satellite networks. The Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress satcom coverage has been expanded to deliver Ka-band connectivity for aeronautical and ground missions across the Indian Ocean, the company said Monday. GX employs fixed and steerable beam technology that is built to complement […] More
An Airbus subsidiary and Exelis have partnered to embed a geodatabase into Exelis’ spectral image analysis and sensor data processing platform offerings. Exelis said Monday its ENVI software customers will have access to Airbus Defense and Space’s collection of geospatial imagery between Oct. 6 and Dec. 31. The geospatial data catalog plugin is available for […] More
Lockheed Martin and Israel-based Yissum Research Development have agreed to conduct joint research into materials engineering and quantum information systems. The agreement gives Lockheed an option to exclusively license products resulting from their technology R&D collaboration, the companies said Monday in a joint statement. Joshua Shani, CEO of Lockheed’s Israeli operations, said the business aims […] More
