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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.
ABL Space Systems has raised $170 million in a round of Series B financing led by accounts and funds advised by global investment management firm T. Rowe Price Associates. Existing investors, Fidelity Management and Research and an unnamed global investment management firm participated in the new funding round that values ABL at $1.3 billion.
Paradyme Management said Thursday the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has awarded the company a spot on a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract worth potentially $12.6 billion over a ten-year period. Under the Solutions for Information Technology Enterprise III (SITE III) contact vehicle, Paradyme will compete to provide information technology (IT) and technical support for DIA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
Mike Cosgrave, president and COO of Ace Info Solutions (AceInfo), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s work diversifying its client base and market position following Dovel’s acquisition of the company back in 2019. In addition, Cosgrave addresses the toughest challenges facing the company’s culture and customer base as well as the company’s success in securing big contract awards and AceInfo’s strategic goals for the rest of 2021 and beyond.Â
A fleet of military production tiltrotor aircraft made by Textron subsidiary Bell Textron and Boeing has flown over 600,000 hours while providing warfighters support to maintain their mission readiness and provide transportation for cargo and personnel. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey aircraft’s range, speed, maneuverability and logistical capability provide warfighters with versatile and cost-effective service, Bell said Wednesday.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has recorded more than 1 million flight hours for its Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system since the aircraft's first deployment with the U.S. Army in March 2004. The Gray Eagle platform hit the milestone during March 16 flight operations conducted by the military service, the company said Wednesday.
General Dynamics' mission systems business will offer a new line of products designed to help users securely access and handle sensitive information. The truMLS product suite consists of software and other tools that allow users to maintain security while accessing and sharing content across different classification levels, General Dynamics Missions Systems said Wednesday.
Applied Insight has enabled its emulation cloud product to support Microsoft’s Azure Government Secret cloud region to help software vendors develop cloud-native tools in line with government security requirements. Applied Insight said Wednesday its SHIFT platform now emulates Microsoft's cloud environment designed for government clients' data and workloads that have been designated as secret.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has named the research teams that will work on a program that seeks to develop technologies that could help mitigate interference for wideband radio frequency systems. The selected teams that will work on the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection program are BAE Systems, Raytheon Technologies and its Collins Aerospace business, Northrop Grumman, Indiana Microelectronics, L3Harris Technologies, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and healthcare businesses at Amazon Web Services and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on FedScoop how AWS works to help federal agencies address the challenge of keeping up with machine learning, edge computing and other transformational technologies and the need to train employees in order for them to take advantage of the capabilities that cloud offers to improve mission delivery.
Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has extended its licensing agreement with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance company Vigilance to continue deploying the latter’s ISR training system to operators worldwide. Insitu said Wednesday the companies signed the agreement in 2019 to integrate Vigilance's software with Insitu’s Catalina and TacitView full-motion video platforms to develop courseware unique to Insitu’s architecture.
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Greg Wenzel, executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for his thought leadership and for driving defense solutions that support warfighters’ competitive edge in digital warfare. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Greg Wenzel as the most significant executive of consequence to the GovCon sector.Â
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), has received a 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and vision to utilize artificial intelligence technology to develop greater warfighter tech and decision making while also driving enterprise systems development for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. military.
