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Carahsoft Technology has been named to Bloomberg Government’s 2018 list of 200 federal sector leaders for seven years in a row. Carahsoft said Friday it landed the 91th spot on the BGOV200 list that ranks the top contractors based on prime contracts the government awarded in fiscal year 2017. “It is reassuring to see the […] More

Raytheon has announced that it will take part in a Trump administration initiative to invest in current and future talent in the manufacturing, engineering and technical fields to support the American economy. As part of the effort, Raytheon will expand work-based learning, education, on-the-job training and re-skilling programs in the aerospace and defense sectors, the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has received Boeing’s design options for a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system envisioned to thwart nuclear threats over the next five decades. Boeing said Friday it completed a system requirements review for the service branch’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program in November, three months after the company won a $349.1 million contract to support GBSD technology maturation and risk reduction efforts. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to hold a competitors day on Sept. 27 to discuss its timeline and vision for a prize competition that will explore technology platforms for potential use by warfighters and emergency responders in underground settings. DARPA said Friday it seeks multiple teams to develop systems for mapping, navigating and searching man-made tunnel […] More

General Dynamics’ information technology business has booked four one-year task orders worth a combined $23.4 million to support the Environmental Protection Agency‘s IT infrastructure, systems and applications. Each order contains two one-year options and supports EPA’s ENERGY STAR program, which GDIT has supported over the past 17 years, the company said Tuesday. The agency launched the program […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a three-year, $73.2 million contract modification to an L3 Technologies business unit to procure aircraft that can accommodate an updated High Altitude Observatory system. L3 Aeromet will help MDA buy and equip three used planes with the HALO platform under the modification, which increases the contract’s total potential value from $564.1 million […] More

The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. The consulting firm is led […] More

Boeing is offering to sell the U.S. Air Force a new high-performance version of the F-15 aircraft with more modern features, Defense One reported Wednesday. The F-15X is equipped with new flight controls, cockpit displays and radar and has the capacity to hold over 24 air-to-air missiles, the report noted. “We see the marketplace expanding internationally and […] More

Northrop Grumman has delivered an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it developed BACN to translate and distribute voice communications and other battlespace information from multiple sources to disparate users and networks. BACN is designed to also integrate with the Bombardier BD-700 aircraft and has […] More

Carahsoft Technology and Feature Labs have partnered to market the latter’s products designed to help government customers create and deploy machine learning models to automate the data science process. Feature Labs said Thursday it developed tools and application programming interfaces for agency data scientists and software engineers to manage data sets and identify key insights. The software […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said government, academic and industry leaders should work together and “take a holistic view of workforce development” to address the shortage of skilled employees in the aerospace and defense sector and advance innovation. Hewson wrote in an opinion piece posted Thursday on Fox News that the current administration has launched several efforts to […] More