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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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.
Jean-Francois “Boodi” Blanc, partner and chief strategy officer of SDV International, said in a recent Executive Spotlight interview that he is aiming to help the company diversify into other defense and civilian market segments. “With over a decade of IT optimization experience, we are targeting other defense and federal civilian agencies that we believe will […] More
Raj Shankar, vice president of digital transformation and GTM at Salesforce, shared in a recent Executive Spotlight interview what attracted him to the company and how it can help aerospace and defense businesses gain insights with digital technology. “My goal in joining the company was to be a part of the leading industry and go […] More
Steve Tolbert, executive vice president of business systems at CACI International, participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the company’s products and services that support enterprise business functions of its federal customers. “We provide these Business System solutions through an array of full life-cycle services from design, development, and deployment through sustainment and retirement. […] More
Goldman Sachs’ private equity arm has invested $125 million in Fortress Information Security, a software vendor that aims to help critical industries and government agencies secure supply chains. Fortress said Tuesday it collaborated with multiple electric utilities to develop a platform that works to help operators manage the security of power infrastructure, national defense and […] More
SpaceX has reflown its Falcon 9 launch vehicle booster to help the National Reconnaissance Office deploy a satellite to orbit, marking the first time NRO permitted such rocket hardware to be reused for one of its missions. The agency said its NROL-85 payload lifted off at 6:13 a.m. Pacific time Sunday from Vandenberg Space Force […] More
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Martin Defense Group a $15 million contract to develop a system for delivering fuel to the U.S. Marine Corps’ expeditionary advanced base operations. Martin Defense will aim to mature autonomous technology as part of the Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Surface Mobility program, the Department of Defense said April […] More
Doug Barton, chief technology officer of the health group at Leidos, said in a recent Executive Spotlight interview that the company continually explores emerging technology in the marketplace and talks to customers to understand what challenges they intend to address when investing in technology. “At Leidos, technology is always viewed through the lens of service to […] More
Argonne National Laboratory is working with Intel to assemble a semiconductor testbed for one of the Department of Energy’s five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. The partnership expects to complete the machine installation project this year to support algorithm testing activities at the Q-NEXT quantum science and engineering facility, ANL said Monday. Jeanette Roberts, […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps has asked BAE Systems to look into the possibility of equipping the Amphibious Combat Vehicle with a reconnaissance payload technology intended for data collection and over-the-horizon target detection functions. BAE said Thursday it will study a potential command, control, communication, computers and unmanned aerial systems variant of the military vehicle developed […] More
Stacy Kubicek of Lockheed Martin and Rich Aves of Parsons joined other industry executives in a panel discussion held Wednesday at the annual Space Symposium to give their perspectives on cybersecurity risks to commercial satellite systems that support the national security mission, Via Satellite reports. Stacy Kubicek Kubicek, who serves as vice president and general […] More
An Idemia subsidiary has won a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate an identity vetting and verification technology for biometric access management at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. Idemia National Security Solutions will deploy its ID2Access platform to the Army installation as part of a research and development project with USACE’s Engineer […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has led a project team that sought to demonstrate the application of reverse engineering and advanced manufacturing systems to produce hardware for domestic nuclear power plants. CTC said Wednesday its Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing worked with Westinghouse Electric and three power companies in Pennsylvania to carry out the demo with financial […] More
