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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.
IBM has established new data centers that will offer a SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service platform designed to help federal clients manage and secure their workloads on premise or in the cloud. The SoftLayer cloud facilities are built to host 30,000 servers and share a private computer network connectivity of up to 2,000 gigabytes per second, IBM said […] More
Hewlett Packard has rolled out a package of service offerings intended to help enterprises using SAP‘s HANA database to analyze large volumes of data and gain business insights in real time. The HP As-a-Service portfolio includes a software license for the HANA in-memory computing technology as well as hardware and platform management services, HP said […] More
A Lockheed Martin-made autonomous system fitted into a convoy of unmanned tactical vehicles has been tested by Lockheed and the U.S. Army‘s Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. Lockheed and Army personnel have performed a second round of tests on the Autonomous Mobility Applique System during a demonstration event held at the Savannah River Site, […] More
Amazon Web Services has been selected by the Obama administration to host cloud computing functions on the federally-run health insurance exchange portal, FCW reported Tuesday. Adam Mazmanian writes that HealthCare.gov is undergoing a technical makeover to address glitches and feature new user tools when the next enrollment period commences in November. The Centers for Medicare […] More
Lockheed Martin has subcontracted a Materion Corp. subsidiary to deliver aluminum-beryllium casting products that Lockheed intends to use to assemble the electro-optical targeting system of F-35 fighter jets. Materion Brush Beryllium & Composites will supply its AlBeMet metal composites to Lockheed through the agreement, of which value was not disclosed, Materion said Tuesday. “We have […] More
Northrop Grumman has won a potential $9 million contract to supply a navigation sensor technology to South Korea’s national space agency for geostationary satellites built to monitor space weather, ocean and atmospheric conditions. The company’s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units will work to deliver continuous rotational data on South Korea’s GEO‑KOMPSAT-2A and 2B environmental satellites, […] More
ICF International has renamed its business unit that offers consulting services in the aviation and aerospace markets as part of the firm’s rebranding strategy. The company announced Monday that its SH&E subsidiary has adopted the “ICF International” brand in a move to better reflect the collaborative work of the parent company and the unit. “This […] More
Northrop Grumman and the Missile Defense Agency have collaborated to facilitate multiple wargame sessions designed to help warfighters counter ballistic missile theats. The wargame took place during the annual Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Forum held recently at Fort Belvoir, Va. and simulated a future battlefield scenario using a BMD architecture, Northrop said Monday. “Wargames look […] More
Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, forecasts that the enterprise computing landscape could change due to the introduction of open-source cloud architectures, Forbes reported Sunday. “If you look at where most new applications are getting built, and therefore where so much of the innovation around languages, frameworks and management paradigms are happening, it’s around an […] More
Deniece Peterson, director of federal industry analysis at Deltek, believes small goverment contractors must think strategically to compete and thrive in the same space as much bigger players, she writes in a Washington Post column published Monday. Peterson writes that small firms can stay competitive by having a well-structured portfolio, partnering with other firms and […] More
A joint venture of Thales Group and Finmeccanica has secured a contract to design and develop a satellite platform that will work to deliver mobile and broadcasting services across multiple spectrum networks. Thales Alenia Space will build a dual-mission telecommunications satellite for Inmarsat and Greek satcom operator Hellas-Sat, Thales Group said Thursday. Under the agreement, […] More
Inmarsat and the Global eHealth Foundation will collaborate to introduce telemedicine programs meant to connect healthcare providers with patients in sub-Saharan Africa with the aid of satellite communications technology. The alliance intends to use Inmarsat’s Alphasat global telecommunications satellite to help people living in remote areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa to access mobile healthcare services, Inmarsat […] More
