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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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Parsons has integrated the secondary payload on the Altas V rocket for the Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 5 mission as part of the company’s $100 million Launch Manifest Systems Integrator contract awarded in 2019. The company said Wednesday two Technology Demonstration Orbiters named TDO-3 and TDO-4 were delivered to ride-share on the […] More
Verizon Public Sector has secured a $495 million Department of Defense (DOD) contract to deliver a next-generation, high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network supporting critical research. The company will provide switch, router, firewall and Edge Compute capabilities to help connect 200 different research, development, test, and evaluation laboratories and High-Performance Computing locations across the […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to become Bentley Systems‘ primary government distribution contract aggregator and offer the latter’s infrastructure engineering software across federal, state and local agencies. As part of the partnership, Carahsoft will provide government customers with access to Bentley’s products through existing distribution contracts, such as those with the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement […] More
A Northrop Grumman-made rocket with a payload from the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from NASA’s Virginia-based Wallops Flight Facility as part of the company’s Orbital-Suborbital Program-3 contract. Northrop said Tuesday its NROL-111 mission marks the 12th flight with the Minotaur I launch vehicle and the 28th with the Minotaur fleet overall. The U.S. Space […] More
Axon and DroneSense have partnered to introduce an integrated software platform for law enforcement professionals to obtain situational awareness and manage evidence through live-stream footage from public safety unmanned aircraft systems. The Axon Air Powered by DroneSense offering is scheduled to be available in the third quarter of 2021 and will incorporate drone program and […] More
Dominic Delmolino, vice president of technology and innovation for the public sector at Amazon Web Services, said AWS supports the U.S. federal government’s transition to Internet Protocol version 6 in accordance with an Office of Management and Budget memo released in November. “IPv6 has a number of advantages over IPv4, including an increased number of […] More
Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said Microsoft brings complementary technology platforms to a partnership that allows both companies to help agencies manage the performance of mission-critical networks and applications. In a LinkedIn post published Tuesday, Bierweiler emphasized the importance of collaborative work between vendors […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured authorization from the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body to conduct cyber readiness assessments of companies seeking to compete for Department of Defense contracts. Kratos said Tuesday it became one of the first two certified third-party assessment organizations under the CMMC program after passing the Defense Industrial Base […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency needs industry input to inform a follow-on effort in support of the further development of data conversion software. NGA said May 25 in a SAM.gov sources sought notice it uses the Data Transformation Services software to convert mission partner data into analyzable formats. The agency seeks white papers on commercial services […] More
Accenture‘s federal business arm has secured space at a university-backed innovation hub for fostering collaborative technology development between communities in Huntsville, Alabama. The new innovation space of Accenture Federal Services located at the Invention to Innovation Center or I²C of the University of Alabama in Huntsville is intended to accommodate collaborative projects with industry experts […] More
A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has secured a potential five-year contract with the Department of Defense for the development of a chemical detector that can be worn by U.S. troops for immediate danger detection, or carried by an unmanned aerial system for remote reconnaissance. Teledyne FLIR will work under the Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector initiative […] More
Companies like Lockheed Martin are participating in joint exercises to help the Department of Defense come up with a joint all-domain operations platform that can link sensors to shooters to achieve decision dominance, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “[It’s] about machine learning, artificial intelligence, eventually quantum computing—the speed at which they’re able to operate, and really […] More
