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Jacobs has received an agency-level award from NASA in recognition of the company’s contributions as a service provider supporting projects at Kennedy Space Center. The company said Thursday it has been named the Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year for KSC as part of NASA’s 2020 Small Business Industry Award. “Jacobs’ relationship with NASA […] More

Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said she sees strong U.S. defense spending amid the current administration’s focus on infrastructure, child care and other domestic programs, Bloomberg reported Thursday. “President Biden has been a longtime supporter of national security. So, this year’s budget for defense had a […] More

Jay Hadley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, said leaders from federal, state, municipal and tribal governments must carefully coordinate the implementation of environmental regulation systems to address climate change challenges. He wrote in a piece GCN published Friday that coordination is essential to addressing technology challenges faced by partnerships between the Environmental Protection […] More

Harpoon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm, has raised a new $120 million fund as it continues to help early-stage technology startups win federal contracts, Fast Company reported Tuesday. Former servicemen William Allen and Larsen Jensen founded Harpoon in 2018 and have helped startups gain access to 52 federal contracts valued at $496 million […] More

Lockheed Martin has finished constructing a new 215,000-square foot advanced manufacturing facility at the headquarters of its aerospace company Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The new factory combines robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enable fast and agile manufacturing processes in support of the U.S. and its allies, Lockheed said Tuesday. The facility, which […] More

A new survey from the Association of Government Accountants and Grant Thornton‘s public sector arm describes the methods used by chief financial officers from federal and state government agencies to make decisions to address information technology, workforce, organizational resiliency and real estate challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. AGA and Grant Thornton said Tuesday they carried […] More

Cognosante has maintained Level 3 ratings for its service delivery and development processes based on CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration appraisal conducted by Two Harbors. The maturity appraisal for 2021 marks Cognosante’s eighth year to receive a level 3 rating for service delivery and sixth year for development, the company said Thursday. CMMI serves […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has received a James S. Cogswell Award from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency for an industrial security program being implemented at a company facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The consulting firm said Wednesday it was among the 40 cleared contractors selected to receive the award this year and the second time […] More

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has recognized the implementation and sustainment of industrial security programs of six Northrop Grumman facilities. Northrop said Tuesday it received DCSA’s James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, which is given to companies that demonstrate compliance with high-level industrial security standards. A DSCA-designated industrial security representative nominated facilities, […] More

Two Spirit AeroSystems Holdings subsidiaries will work with Albany Engineered Composites to jointly support hypersonic technology projects as part of a technical collaboration agreement between the parties. Spirit AeroSystems and Fiber Materials, along with the Albany International Corp. subsidiary, will collaboratively build a suite of thermal protection system offerings designed to accelerate hypersonic programs, Spirit […] More

Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II aircraft from across the globe have collectively flown for 400,000 hours of operational, training and developmental activities. Combat-assigned and operational F-35 units recorded 165,000 flight hours or approximately 41 percent of the total figure,  the company’s F-35 program said Thursday. The combined flight hours ran across 235,329 sorties of 224 […] More