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Federal information technology and professional services provider IPTA has appointed James Combs Jr. as regional vice president. IPTA said Monday that, in this role, Combs will work to manage prime contracts as overseer of the company's newly-established southeast business unit.
Planet Labs has conducted a ground demonstration that validated technologies enabling connectivity between low Earth orbit satellites and in-space communication satellites operated by the government solutions business of Telesat and the space and defense business of SES. Planet said Friday the demonstration was part of a subcontract it had received in 2022 from Telesat Government Solutions and SES Space & Defense for NASA's Communications Services Project, which seeks to evaluate the feasibility of using commercial satellite communications to support future NASA missions.
The board of directors at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has undergone what the technology company describes as an "augmentation and refreshment process," which saw the retirement of board members Samuel Liberatore and Jane Judd and the addition of Brad Boyd and Dan Hagen. The changes went into effect on Nov. 1, Kratos said Thursday.
The artificial intelligence security platform offered by CalypsoAI will be made available to the public sector through Palantir Technologies' FedStart program under a partnership between the two companies. Palantir's FedStart program is a software-as-a-service offering that provides a government-accredited environment where partner companies can run their products, CalypsoAI said.
Technology solutions provider Cognosante has received a second contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs for cloud operations and migration services. The deal is worth $189 million and comes with a base period of performance of one year and two option years, Cognosante said Tuesday.
The mission systems business of aerospace and defense company General Dynamics has named William Scott deputy vice president of range systems. Prior to his new role, Scott served as General Dynamics Mission Systems' director of advanced airborne systems and, before that, senior manager of the company's littoral combat ship program.
Abt Associates has tasked Jeffrey Wuorinen to lead its climate and energy portfolio as the newly appointed vice president of just climate and energy transitions. In this capacity, Wuorinen will work to plan and implement projects that equitably address climate issues in collaboration with U.S. government clients and partner countries, the consulting and research firm said Monday.
Carahsoft will work to make the business conduct and supply chain risk dataset of data science company RepRisk available to the public sector under a new partnership. Carahsoft said Thursday that it will make RepRisk's artificial intelligence-powered offering available via the OMNIA Partners, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts and with the help of partner resellers.
NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.
Nexalin Technology, a developer of neurostimulation products, is establishing a military and government advisory board, whose purpose is to help formulate and implement a strategy for the commercialization of the company's deep-brain stimulation devices. The advisory board will be led by David Lasseter, the founder of Horizons Global Solutions, a provider of consulting services with a focus on biotechnology, intelligence, law enforcement and national security, Nexalin said Wednesday.
The Exploration and Space Communications Project Division within NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center seeks industry input regarding its intent to decouple into separate vehicles the two requirements covered by the Space Exploration Network Service and Evolution indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The SENSE IDIQ currently provides for the operation, maintenance and sustainment of the Near Space Network and other government projects and assets, and the implementation of Space Exploration, Communications and Navigation capabilities, according to a request for information posted Tuesday on SAM.gov.
The State Department is warning U.S. citizens traveling anywhere in the world "to exercise increased caution". In an Oct. 23 travel advisory, the department called for vigilance on the part of U.S. citizens when visiting locations frequented by tourists and recommended that they enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.
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