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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.
Battle Sight Technologies and the Air Force Research Laboratory have entered into a licensing agreement for an infrared phosphor technology designed to aid military training and communications in the battlefield. The technology can absorb ultraviolet light at daytime and emit IR light during the night, the U.S. Air Force said Wednesday.
DLT Solutions has partnered with nine technology vendors to market tools designed to help government organizations avoid cyber attacks on information technology systems. Brian Strosser, president of DLT, said the company supports public sector clients "with the broadest set of channel partners and cybersecurity tools, in an effort to improve each agency's risk management posture."
Dave Levy, vice president of the federal government business at Amazon Web Services and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, has said the company works with customers in the nonprofit sector to help them manage back-office functions, websites and donor or research platforms, SiliconANGLE reported Wednesday.
The Department of Homeland Security is looking for developers that can demonstrate an artificial intelligence prototype or proof of concept in an effort to determine how the technology can help government contracting officers review the past performance of contractors.
DLT Solutions will help the Department of Labor procure Red Hat-made enterprise software platforms under a potential three-year, $18.4M blanket purchase agreement. The BPA has a one-year base period that commenced July 1 and two option years.
Kleos Space and Spire Global have partnered to integrate the companies' datasets in an effort to help government organizations address maritime safety challenges. The partnership seeks to incorporate automatic identification system-related information into satellite-based radio frequency data platforms, Spire said Thursday.
A Department of Energy-sponsored facility and Cray have partnered to help the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center implement a supercomputing system to support the military service's weather forecasting activities. Cray said Wednesday it will deliver a Shasta high-performance computer through the partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of a $25M contract.
Two startup companies have partnered in an effort to help law enforcement personnel manage investigations through the use of tools hosted on Amazon Web Services' cloud computing platform. The Callyo and Mark43 partnership seeks to combine public safety data with the latter's records management system and facilitate calls or record interviews with the former's virtual phone network, AWS said Tuesday.
Immixgroup and MicroStrategy have partnered to distribute enterprise information technology offerings to the government market in a push to help customer agencies transform IT operations. MicroStrategy said Monday it seeks to introduce an enterprise analytics platform to public sector IT modernization projects via contract vehicles on which immixGroup holds a position.
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, wrote in a LinkedIn article posted Thursday the company offers a migration service that works to help enterprise customers transition to another data provider and cut the operational risk of a business disruption.
Raytheon has created a virtual software factory in a move to accelerate the company's process of developing and delivering software platforms to military customers. "In a world where threats evolve fast, software must evolve faster," said Todd Probert, vice president of Raytheon's intelligence, information and services business.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has ordered engines that will power a unmanned combat air system developed with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Jane's 360 reported Sunday. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said during a second-quarter earnings call the company started ordering engines as it anticipates XQ-58A Valkyrie production efforts after the platform met all test points during a second flight test.
