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Naomi Cooper

is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.

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  • Northrop Concludes Preliminary Design Review for Space Force's Missile Detection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Concludes Preliminary Design Review for Space Force’s Missile Detection System

    Northrop Grumman is cleared to start producing the U.S. Space Force’s next-generation early warning missile system following the completion of the program’s preliminary design review. The phase validated the technical approach for integrating the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar payloads into Northrop’s Eagle-3 spacecraft, the company said Wednesday, the company said Wednesday. NGP includes […] More

  • Ohio Aerospace Institute Requests Proposals for Digital Research Consortium Pilot Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ohio Aerospace Institute Requests Proposals for Digital Research Consortium Pilot Project

    The Ohio Aerospace Institute is inviting members of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Research Innovation, Validation and Research Consortium to submit proposals for a planned risk reduction and integration pilot project. The proposed Manufacturing at Speed initiative aims to accelerate acquisition cycles for system modifications and new technology development by accelerating design to […] More

  • Peraton to Support Postal Service IT Operations via $2.8B Contract; John Coleman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton to Support Postal Service IT Operations via $2.8B Contract; John Coleman Quoted

    Peraton has been named among the 11 companies that will compete to provide information technology services to the U.S. Postal Service as part of a seven-year, $2.8 billion contract vehicle. Efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are intended to help USPS modernize and expand current agency technology infrastructure supporting business processes, Peraton said Wednesday. The company […] More

  • Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis Named Paladin Strategic Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis Named Paladin Strategic Adviser

    Chris Inglis, former national cyber director and a previous Wash100 awardee, is rejoining venture capital firm Paladin Capital Group as a strategic adviser. He will work within Paladin’s strategic advisory group and advise the investment team on emerging trends and opportunities in the cyber landscape, the investment company said Tuesday. Inglis’ appointment marks his second […] More

  • Carahsoft Creates Sales Desk for CMMC Compliance Services; Alex Whitworth Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Creates Sales Desk for CMMC Compliance Services; Alex Whitworth Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology has launched a new sales deck that provides the defense industrial base with access to a list of capabilities and resources to achieve compliance with the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity framework. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Sales Desk works to enable Carahsoft vendors, resellers and managed services providers to offer their products and […] More

  • BWXT Plans to Deliver DOD's 1st Mobile Nuclear Reactor in 2025; Joe Miller Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BWXT Plans to Deliver DOD’s 1st Mobile Nuclear Reactor in 2025; Joe Miller Quoted

    BWX Technologies is expecting to deliver a working version of a Department of Defense-funded mobile nuclear reactor to Idaho National Laboratory in the next two years, Bloomberg reported Monday. DOD awarded BWXT a $280 million contract in 2022 to design, build and demonstrate a transportable microreactor prototype that can be used to power remote military […] More

  • Amentum Wins $70M Navy Contract for Hypersonics R&D Support; Jill Bruning Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amentum Wins $70M Navy Contract for Hypersonics R&D Support; Jill Bruning Quoted

    Amentum has secured a potential five-year, $70 million contract to support the U.S. Navy’s hypersonic weapon research and development activities. The company said Monday it will help the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Strategic Systems Hardware Division create and enhance ground support equipment for handling and transporting solid rocket motors, launch platforms and flight vehicles. […] More

  • Cubic Demos Actionable Intelligence Product Portfolio at 2023 GEOINT Symposium; Randy Fields Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Demos Actionable Intelligence Product Portfolio at 2023 GEOINT Symposium; Randy Fields Quoted

    Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions division is demonstrating its portfolio of full-motion video and geospatial product offerings designed to provide actionable intelligence to warfighters. Among the featured tools at the 2023 Geospatial Intelligence Symposium are Unified Video+, a next-generation full-motion video data dissemination and analysis tool, and Anubis, a fully immersive FMV processing, exploitation and […] More

  • IBM Invests $100M in Quantum-Centric Supercomputer Development With Partner Universities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Invests $100M in Quantum-Centric Supercomputer Development With Partner Universities

    IBM is investing $100 million in a new initiative to develop a 100,000-qubit quantum-centric supercomputer intended to support research in areas including climate change and clean energy The University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago will work with IBM over the next decade to design and build the quantum systems’ components and underlying technologies, […] More

  • New DARPA Program Seeks to Develop MHD Propulsion System for Undersea Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New DARPA Program Seeks to Develop MHD Propulsion System for Undersea Platforms

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that aims to develop novel electrode materials that can be used for a magnetohydrodynamic propulsion system for military undersea platforms. The Principles of Undersea Magnetohydrodynamic Pumps program will run for three and a half years and will validate modeling and simulation tools, including electrochemistry, hydrodynamics […] More

  • Toni Townes-Whitley to Succeed Nazzic Keene as SAIC CEO in June - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Toni Townes-Whitley to Succeed Nazzic Keene as SAIC CEO in June

    Nazzic Keene, CEO and a board member of Science Applications International Corp., is retiring on Oct. 2 after a decade of service at the Reston, Virginia-headquartered company. Toni Townes-Whitley, a 35-year global technology veteran, has been selected to succeed Keene, who will transition to the role of special executive adviser to the company through Feb. […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With GitLab, AWS to Advance Digital Transformation Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With GitLab, AWS to Advance Digital Transformation Initiatives

    Lockheed Martin has adopted GitLab‘s DevSecOps platform, which runs workloads on Amazon Web Services, to accelerate its 1LMX mission-driven business and digital transformation initiative. GitLab said Tuesday it has collaborated with AWS to help Lockheed automate and optimize its code deployment and enable rapid development and continuous deployment of software for mission-critical defense programs. AWS […] More