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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.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Mark Aslett, CEO of Mercury Systems, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for making key acquisitions and driving company revenue and value while also pushing for COVID-19 relief to address the unique challenges created in 2020. This marks the first Wash100 Award win for Aslett.
Tetra Tech has won a potential $2 billion multiple-award contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for global architecture and engineering design services in support of sustainment, restoration, modernization of military facilities and infrastructure. “Tetra Tech has a 30-year history of working with the USAF under various global architect-engineer services contracts,†said Dan Batrack, chairman and CEO of Tetra Tech.
Omnispace has demonstrated connectivity between 5G devices and satellites for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The company said Monday it tested the new satellite-based 5G with the National Security Innovation Network, a group that brings industry, academia and military together to address defense challenges via new technology.
Kathleen Featheringham, director of artificial intelligence strategy at Booz Allen Hamilton, predicts the transportation sector will witness a paradigm shift as the industry advances its adoption of AI and believes federal agencies should prepare for such a major change by having an AI vision that includes all aspects of the organization. “Second, it’s important to have an open meaningful conversation about the right applications for AI and the outcomes that are hoped to be achieved, ensuring that they are ethical auditable sustainable and reliable,†Featheringham said.
Microsoft and Thales have partnered to integrate two offerings in a push to help highly regulated sectors protect sensitive data in cloud-based Office 365 applications while maintaining privacy compliance. The partnership combined the Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and Thales' Luna Hardware Security Modules to support confidential data protection efforts in the financial services, health care and government sectors, the Paris-based technology provider said Tuesday.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has selected Altius Space Machines, Honeybee Robotics and Orbit Fab to provide robotic grapple fixtures for a testing initiative slated to begin in the spring and summer of 2021. Engineers at NASA’s Exploration and In-Space Services projects division will evaluate the companies’ grapple fixtures using robotics facilities at Goddard under space act agreements.
Executive Mosaic is happy to announce that Lynn Bamford, president and CEO of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award. She has secured a Wash100 Award for her leadership and strategic vision to drive growth for the company heading into 2021. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Bamford.Â
Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) has received a hypersonic antenna development contract of an undisclosed sum from the U.S. government. The company said Monday the contract will require CAES to develop innovative antenna communication devices that could be applied to hypersonic technologies.
The U.S. Army has awarded Peraton a two-year, $44 million contract for hypersonic test engineering, mission planning and systems (HyTEMPS). The company said Monday the contract requires Peraton to provide comprehensive mission support for interservice flight test missions to ensure flight test events are successfully executed.
The U.S. Army seeks white papers on systems that would protect hypersonic weapons from the harmful effects of heat. The service branch said Friday in a SAM notice it needs information on materials and processes needed to prototype thermal protection systems for the Common Hypersonic Glide Body of long-range hypersonic weapons.
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking information on industry capabilities to help inform its strategy for the procurement of cybersecurity operations support services. FAA plans to compete a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for such services in support of its security operations center that helps monitor information security incidents and protect the information technology infrastructure of the FAA and the Department of Transportation.
Antony Blinken, secretary of the State Department, has received his first Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). Visit GovCon Wire to read Blinken’s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile. To vote for him as one of your favorite executives of this year’s Wash100 Award, visit Wash100.com to cast your TEN votes before April 30th, 2021.
