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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
ExecutiveBiz recently had a chance to sit down with Jason Porter, president of AT&T’s public sector and FirstNet, for its latest Executive Spotlight interview discussing his recent transition into the role as well as the impact of a VA modernization task order win, the company’s momentum moving from network services to EIS, improving federal agency […] More
The National Archives and Records Administration is seeking information on vendors with a capability to design, build and implement a Presidential Library website component that contains archived social media data. NARA wants the contractor to use Agile development process to develop the website component with data archived from various social media platforms, according to a […] More
Rhea Space Activity has received an award to research and develop a solar-thermal propulsion system that could be used by the U.S. Space Force for a deep-space lunar communications spacecraft. The company said Monday it will investigate a bi-modal propulsion system for the Scorpius spacecraft through a phase one award under the U.S. Air Force’s […] More
CACI International has won a potential five-year, $1.4 billion single-award task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for continued delivery of mission expertise in support of efforts to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and threat networks. Under the Decisive Action task order, CACI will provide DTRA with a broad range of analytical expertise to drive and […] More
NASA is getting help from industry to more quickly process data from the International Space Station via edge computing and plans to use the technology for Mars exploration in the future, Fedscoop reported Friday. The agency sees edge computing’s potential to accelerate the analysis of space-based data in missions under the Artemis program, which aims […] More
The U.S. Air Force has given Kitty Hawk the green light to move forward with USAF-directed flight testing of the Heaviside electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The airworthiness approval brings Heaviside to its next phase of test flights, where the aircraft will demonstrate functions for both commercial and military applications, the Air Force Research […] More
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek, recently participated in a Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz covering the recent cancellation of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. During the Q&A session, 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the impact the cancellation will have across the federal […] More
Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, has opened its first in-region facility for preparing F-35 aircraft pilots outside the U.S. to support the Royal Netherlands Air Force and international clients. The F-35 Pilot Readiness Center at RNLAF’s Center for Man in Aviation in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, will provide Dutch airmen with helmet fitting, calibration, training […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. has delivered another Mission Enhancement Kit for the King Air 350 aircraft to the U.S. Army in an effort to expand the capabilities of its fleet of enhanced medium altitude reconnaissance and surveillance systems. The seventh fully integrated MEK aircraft delivery is part of a contract from the Army, which has acquired […] More
At first glance, the world of government contracting may seem like an unnavigable and tangled web of task orders, contract awards and vehicles granted from mysterious government organizations that only the biggest companies can win. In actuality, a deep understanding of the government’s priorities and rules governing the GovCon sector enables a firm of any […] More
Microsoft has partnered with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to help the latter expand its climate modeling capacity through artificial intelligence services and cloud-based predictive analytics tools. The company and ERDC will use the Azure Government cloud computing service for a code scalability demonstration of an integrated modeling system designed to enable […] More
GBL Systems and Samsung Electronics’ U.S. business arm have started the delivery of new 5G testbeds to U.S. Army military bases in support of the Department of Defense’s augmented reality/virtual reality operations and training initiatives. Samsung said Wednesday it was designated to deploy 5G end-to-end services and technical support while GBL took charge of developing […] More
