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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.
A U.S. Navy warfare center has teamed up with Huntington Ingalls Industries to integrate a threat detection system onto an unmanned surface vehicle as part of a cooperative research and development agreement. The partnership seeks to equip a commercially developed USV platform with technology that the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division created to […] More
A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a $42.8 million follow-on award to help the Missile Defense Agency field and maintain hardware used to launch missile assets. Under the five-year contract, Venturi will assist MDA in the preparation, loading and unloading, transportation, erection and handling of live missile launchers, the Department of Defense said Friday. The […] More
Redhorse holds a spot on a potential $241 million basic ordering agreement to help the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center prepare agency data for use with machine learning tools. The company said it plans to offer ML-based data architecture, data ingest and labeling, cloud integration and feature engineering support to DOD and other […] More
The U.S. Army used a Northrop Grumman-built command and control system to track and reach missile targets during two flight tests. The company said its Integrated Battle Command System demonstration occurred at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico as part of the branch’s initial operational test and evaluation requirements before the IBCS program can […] More
Intel and the National Science Foundation have agreed to create a $100 million funding program to encourage collaborations between the research and education communities in building up the semiconductor ecosystem. The company said it will provide $50 million to the initiative while the agency will match the investment and solicit proposals for chip design and […] More
Intel plans to spend as much as $88 billion on chip research, development, production and packaging operations in the European Union over the next decade as part of efforts to help industry rebalance and increase resilience in the global semiconductor supply chain. The investment program’s initial phase, valued at more than $18 billion, will focus […] More
Boeing and Space Systems Command have concluded the critical design review of a prototype of a space-based hub intended to provide the military with anti-jam capability for secure satellite communications. The company said Wednesday its Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype achieved technical maturity based on the CDR ahead of the U.S. Space Force’s plan to launch […] More
Linda Thomson, president and CEO of Johnstown Area Regional Industries, has been tapped to join the board of directors of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Thomson has been JARI’s president and CEO for two decades, leading teams focused on business retention, workforce development, site selection, finance, procurement and small business technical assistance, CTC said Wednesday. Her career […] More
The Missile Defense Agency has retired a pair of Northrop Grumman-made experimental satellites after they finished demonstrating the ability to identify and track missile threats from boost phase through midcourse. The Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellites exhibited capabilities to detect short-, medium-, intermediate- and intercontinental-range missiles, as well as to transfer gathered data to […] More
Charles River Analytics has secured $3 million award to develop tools that can help the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps better understand deep reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique restrained by obstacles associated with unclear responses and the potential to make wrong conclusions. The company said Tuesday its Explainability and Terrain Reasoning for Autonomy or […] More
IBM has announced a pair of new initiatives aimed at addressing technology-related challenges faced by the federal government. The company said Tuesday it will combine its federal technology resources with the offerings of other technology providers and system integrators under the first initiative. This effort looks to address federal government challenges by integrating partners’ products […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division handed over its 10th Virginia-class submarine to the U.S. Navy on Saturday. The Navy accepted the delivery of the future USS Montana following the completion of the submarine’s initial sea trials last month and christening in September 2020, HII said Monday. The fast-attack submarine, also known as SSN […] More
