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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.
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding arm has handed the national security cutter Hamilton to the U.S Coast Guard nearly three months ahead of its scheduled commissioning. The Coast Guard officially took possession of the 418-foot-long NSC Hamilton on Monday and is slated to commission the ship in Charleston, South Carolina on Dec. 6, HII said Monday. […] More
The Defense Department could issue a certification for Space Exploration Technologies to compete for military satellite launch programs by Dec. 1, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Doug Cameron writes SpaceX will get the chance to pursue work to launch satellites for DoD once the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is approved. Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint […] More
United Launch Alliance will announce on Wednesday a collaboration with Blue Origin to develop and offer a rocket engine for U.S. space programs, Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes the partnership seeks to replace Russian-made RD-180 engines that are used on ULA’s Atlas V rockets to lift off U.S. military satellites. Frank Kendall, the Defense […] More
Boeing has established an aerospace-focused research facility on the campus of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, Arab News reported Monday. Arab News reports the Boeing Research and Technology office seeks to work with other companies through the KAUST Industrial Cooperation program, as well as to develop young professionals’ technical […] More
Creative Computing Solutions Inc. has received an accreditation to perform independent reviews of cloud computing offerings for federal agencies through the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program. CCSi will evaluate if a government cloud service provider adheres to security and control standards as a FedRAMP third-party assessment organization, the company said Monday. “As a 3PAO, we […] More
Lockheed Martin is collaborating with Advanced Electronics Co. to establish a facility in Saudi Arabia that would offer aircraft targeting pod repair services to that nation’s air force. The companies will build the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod repair center through the Saudi Arabian government’s economic offset program, Lockheed said Monday. “AEC is a strategic partner […] More
Cubic Transportation Systems has introduced a back-office platform intended to help transit agencies manage tolls collected on the highway. The NextCity for Tolling platform is designed to unify transaction processing, customer service and financial management applications, Cubic said Monday. “Our vision for NextCity is a fully integrated information and payments management system that spans all […] More
The government of Croatia has collaborated with IBM and APIS IT to deploy an information technology infrastructure designed to help Croatian public agencies deliver mobile services to citizens. Crotia’s m-government program employs an IBM mainframe computer and seeks to help people to access passport, voting registration and tax services through mobile devices, IBM said Thursday. […] More
Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer at Razorsight, believes analytics technology can help cloud service providers drive customer loyalty and identify new revenue opportunities. Checco discussed how the company’s analytics software product works to provide CSPs a full picture of the customer experience in order to reduce customer churn rate and increase profitability during […] More
Harris Corp. will implement a medical technology for Georgia-based Phoebe Putney Health System to facilitate exchange of patient records across the organization’s network of five hospitals. Phoebe Putney chose Harris’ Fusion FX Provider Portal to help clinicians access medical data in real-time and make decisions at the point of care, Harris said Wednesday. Vishal Agrawal, […] More
A Research and Markets report says Northrop Grumman, Qinetiq and iRobot represent more than 50 percent of the global market share in unmanned ground vehicles. The worlwide UGV market has an estimated value of $1.51 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $8.26 billion in value by 2020, the research firm said Thursday. Growth […] More
General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit has announced new updates to a security analytics platform designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate any malicious activity on computer networks. XPS Collector works to automatically correlate threat intelligence with network metadata to reduce the time it takes for security analysts to find a threat and take action against it, […] More
