Industry News

The shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has authenticated the keel of a future Legend-class U.S. Coast Guard cutter, marking the start of the ship’s construction. Structural welder Demetrica Hawkins affixed a commemorative steel plate the WMSL 758 or National Security Cutter Stone during the keel-laying ceremony of  at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, the company said […] More

Parsons has unveiled a new facility at its Huntsville, Al., site as part of company efforts to increase technical capacity. The 25K-square foot facility, which opened Friday, will provide for the company’s technical services expansion, which includes the fusion of hardware and software technological capacities for infrastructure, defense and intelligence customers, Parsons said Friday. The […] More

Will Roper, undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, has said the service intends to award contracts to companies with emerging technology platforms within 24 hours through “startup days,” Defense News reported Monday. He told the publication in a Sept. 7 interview that prior to the actual startup days, the branch would ask […] More

A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $42.2M contract to provide physical security support services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Chenega Infinity will help DARPA’s security and intelligence directorate protect agency personnel, business operations, data and facilities, according to a FedBizOpps summary. “Chenega is very pleased to have the opportunity to serve the Security […] More

NASA will hold an industry day on Nov. 1 and 2 for aviation industry entities and government agencies interested in participating in a series of challenges that aim to promote urban air mobility safety. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the space agency intends to use the industry day to discuss the goals and schedule […] More

Technical and Project Engineering’s enterprise solutions unit has completed the third stage of a process level improvement training and evaluation program required by many Defense Department entities for software development contractors. GMS Registrar performed the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development Level 3 appraisal after TAPE passed the Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement […] More

The General Services Administration has tapped Spear and LexisNexis Risk Solutions to provide identity verification and fraud detection offerings to expand and secure public access to government websites. Under GSA’s Identity Proofing Initiative, the two companies will work to protect access to Login.gov, which is a website that allows civilians to communicate with various government […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton CEO Horacio Rozanski said during a recent earnings call the company has invested in artificial intelligence as the Defense Department and federal agencies tap into the technology, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “We see this as the beginning of something. The market for [AI] is here and Booz Allen is well prepared to capture it,” Rozanski added. […] More

Brig. Gen. Thomas Todd, program executive officer for aviation, has said the U.S. Army started to accept deliveries of Boeing-built AH-64E Apache helicopters on Aug. 31 after the company kicked off an effort in June to address safety issues with the aircraft’s strap pack nut, Defense News reported Tuesday. The service temporarily stopped deliveries of Apaches […] More