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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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Lockheed Martin has completed a captive carry test of a prototype missile communication device, demonstrating its ability to provide in-flight target updates to a surface-to-surface rocket launcher system. The Remote Interceptor Guidance – 360 prototype communicated target updates to a data link flown inside a surrogate Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, Lockheed said Wednesday.
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Illumio's zero trust segmentation platform to the public sector through its reseller partners and government procurement vehicles. Under the partnership, Carahsoft will serve as the master government aggregator for the Illumio ZTS micro-segmentation platform designed to enable government agencies to contain data breaches and protect mission-critical infrastructure against ransomware attacks.
James Geurts, former assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, and Brian Hibbeln, former assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for special capabilities, have been named to the advisory board of Leonid Capital Partners. Both advisers bring decades of combined military and government experience and will advise the Leonid leadership team on advancing its mission objectives.
Chris Winslett, general manager of Blue Canyon Technologies, an RTX subsidiary, said the small satellite developer aims to expand its presence in the defense market by pursuing business opportunities with spacecraft manufacturers bidding for Space Development Agency contracts. "I think there's enormous opportunities in defense, civil, on the intelligence side, as well as commercial space," said Winslett.
Curtiss-Wright's defense solutions division has launched a next-generation high-voltage power management system designed to stabilize turret drives to address the power requirements of U.S. ground vehicles. The high-voltage turret drive stabilization system uses a platform's existing continuous low-voltage power to convert 28V battery voltage up to 750V for precise maneuvering of high-inertia loads, such as medium caliber weapon systems, main battle tank turret drives and stabilization systems, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions said Monday.
Brian Rogers, senior director of global launch services at Rocket Lab, said he expects to see an increased demand for the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron, a modified version of the company's Electron launch vehicle, as the Department of Defense continues to invest in hypersonics, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. The suborbital testbed launch vehicle took its inaugural flight from a launch site at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in June in support of the Pentagon's Multi-Service Advanced Hypersonic Testbed.
The U.S. Army has completed contractor verification testing of its RTX-made next-generation air and missile defense radar at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to validate the technology's ability to defeat real and simulated threats. During the test, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor was connected to the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and completed 11 mission sets in simulated environments, RTX said Thursday.
Vikas Sharma, former principal technical director at IBM subsidiary Octo, has assumed the vice president of solutions role at health information technology company Cognosante. Sharma has over three decades of industry experience in program management, digital transformation, cloud deployment and enterprise infrastructure development.
Amentum has secured a potential five-year, $51.2 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to support the Department of Defense's biothreat reduction projects. The company will help DTRA modernize facilities, logistics, training and operations in support of the Biological Threat Reduction Program's international mission partners.
Craig Faller, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been elected to the board of directors of military shipbuilding company HII. Faller has nearly four decades of military experience and most recently served as commander of U.S. Southern Command, where he helped build U.S. military partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean security forces.
Raytheon has secured a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a novel rotating detonation engine propulsion system capable of powering long-range weapon systems. The RTX business will integrate a rotating detonation engine technology into a full-scale free-jet test system under the Gambit engine development program.
The Department of the Treasury is seeking industry feedback on the draft performance work statement of a blanket purchase agreement for enterprise-wide professional and cybersecurity services. The potential eight-year BPA covers the provision of highly adaptive cybersecurity services to support the Treasury's security operations center functions in areas such as information security incident management, vulnerability management and adversary and advanced operations.
