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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
A General Dynamics business christened and launched the fourth U.S. Navy John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler during a ceremony in San Diego. The future USNS Robert F. Kennedy is a 742-foot-long ship designed to supply fuel to the service branch’s carrier strike group vessels at sea, General Dynamics NASSCO said Saturday.
Beta Technologies has delivered its all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida to undergo a series of tests as part of the U.S. Air Force's Agility Prime accelerator program. The Air Force Research Laboratory's AFWERX innovation arm and Beta Technologies plan to commence the test campaign for the Alia eVTOL aircraft on Nov. 7 at Duke Field on Eglin AFB, AFRL said Friday.
Tyler Technologies has secured a contract to provide the National Guard Bureau with a unified, cloud-based workforce case management application suite to streamline and automate responses to personnel-related issues and complaints. The NGB-DEI Complaints Management and Adjudication Branch will use the platform to equip military equal opportunity and civilian equal employment opportunity professionals with tools for web-based case management, complaint tracking and program management and reporting, Tyler said Friday.
Carahsoft will work to make the business conduct and supply chain risk dataset of data science company RepRisk available to the public sector under a new partnership. Carahsoft said Thursday that it will make RepRisk's artificial intelligence-powered offering available via the OMNIA Partners, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts and with the help of partner resellers.
NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.
Blue Origin has launched a mockup of its Blue Moon 1 lunar lander at its Huntsville, Alabama-based facility for use in testing technologies meant for a manned version of the vehicle for NASA’s Artemis 5 mission.
Guidehouse has achieved a Maturity Level 3 appraisal for its Digital Enterprise Solutions Engineering and Service Delivery Group under ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program. The Washington-based consulting firm said the CMMI ML3 appraisal is an indicator of a “well characterized and understood” set of organizational procedures.
The migration between private and commercial 5G wireless communication can deliver numerous capabilities to U.S. warfighters, said Mike Loomis, general manager of Nokia's federal business. In an interview, Loomis discussed the different benefits and challenges of integrating commercial and private 5G networks with the Department of Defense.
Tesat has demonstrated the interoperability of its Optical Communication Terminals for use on the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites Lockheed Martin is developing for the Space Development Agency. During a recent ground interoperability testing, the OCTs were able to create and maintain data communication link with a reference modem and then with a third-party optical terminal.
The Department of the Air Force has completed its Zero Trust Implementation Plan, according to Justin Stolpman, director of DAF’s Zero Trust Functional Management Office. He shared that the plan is built around defined steps and milestones to guide the Air Force and Space Force as they move forward in their adoption of zero trust.
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BAE Systems will repair, maintain and modernize the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) under a potential $93 million award from the service branch. The ship's fiscal 2024 docking selected restricted availability work will include labor, equipment, production, testing, quality assurance and other services.
Redhorse has secured a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services to provide analytic and technical support services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and fourth estate agencies. The company said the ATSS contract covers professional, scientific and technical services supporting DOD's mission requirements in capability portfolio management; data science, analytics and governance; and engineering and agile methodologies.
