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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, produces articles on the federal government's technology and business interests. The coverage of these articles include government contracting, cybersecurity, information technology, health care and national security.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has initiated “light off” of the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer the company is building for the U.S. Navy at a shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. HII said Wednesday the activity represents a milestone for Aegis combat system activation aboard the future USS Jack H. Lucas and marks the beginning […] More
Mitre has stood up a new laboratory that will house efforts to prototype and produce new technologies via additive manufacturing or 3D printing and other precision tooling resources. The nonprofit said Tuesday its new Massachusetts-based Advanced Manufacturing Lab measures 2,600 square feet and will apply AM technologies to hardware development to move it from concept […] More
BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm has won a competition to help the U.S. Air Force’s Electronic Warfare and Avionics Program Office update 2,500 radios across multiple military transport, bomber and communications aircraft. The company will develop and produce a new high-frequency radio for Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft under the Rapid Prototyping and […] More
Matt McCrann has been promoted to serve as CEO of DroneShield‘s U.S. subsidiary, where he previously functioned as vice president of sales, Australian Defence Magazine reported Tuesday. He will now oversee efforts to grow the U.S.-based organization’s footprint in the defense, homeland security and law enforcement markets as a counter-drone technology provider. McCrann joined DroneShield […] More
Unmanned aircraft systems made by General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business demonstrated collaborative sensing with a Lockheed Martin-built sensor within a two-hour flight. General Atomics said Monday it deployed two Avenger UAS that used Lockheed’s Legion Pod to passively gather data on long-range air threats then transmitted the input to a ground-based command center. The Legion […] More
Three Cubic-made rugged network switching modules have been included in the Department of Defense Information Network’s approved product list. The inclusion of Cubic Mission and Performance division’s M3-SE-SW24G, M3X-S8G and M3-24G switches in the master list enables the technologies to be used across the DOD infrastructure, the company said Monday. The Cubic products are the […] More
BrainChip Holdings has added Information Systems Laboratories in its Early Access Program and will provide the latter with assistance in the development of an artificial intelligence technology meant to support the Air Force Research Laboratory’s radar projects. ISL is developing the technology based on BrainChip’s Akida neural networking processor, which uses a neuromorphic architecture to […] More
Joe Shepherd, vice president of directed energy innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the modern era necessitates the use of artificial intelligence in military operations. Computing power allows militaries to further build on gathered data, make intelligence-based decisions and support other modern technologies including directed energy, he wrote in a piece National Defense Magazine published […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin $102 million to update the sensor systems of 25 Apache helicopters used by the Egyptian government. The company said Friday it will convert Egypt’s Apaches from D-model to E-model configuration, which includes the Gen III Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor and the Gen III Day Sensor […] More
Zenith AeroTech has teamed up with Austin-based electronics company Virtex Enterprises to accelerate the production of heavy-lift tethered aerial vehicles. The partnership aims to address growing customer demand while meeting the National Defense Authorization Act’s requirements, the Afton, Virginia-based TAV manufacturer said Thursday. Zenith produces the Hexa, Quad 8 and Quadro TAVs, which differ in […] More
Slingshot Aerospace has secured a $2 million contract with the U.S. Space Force to develop an analytics platform for identifying ground-based electronic interference based on satellite-gathered location data, Space News reported Thursday. The company will prototype a technology that uses GPS data from low-Earth-orbit constellations to detect and mitigate GPS and radio-frequency sources threatening U.S. […] More
The U.S. Army will invest $15 million in 10 small businesses for technology transition projects that encompass weapons, information systems and engineering sciences. The Army said Tuesday it will award each company up to $1.7 million under the Small Business Innovation Research program as the service branch seeks new technologies in the areas of information […] More
