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Lockheed Gets Ready to Demonstrate Midsize Satellite Bus; Rick Ambrose Quoted

Lockheed Martin has commenced preparations to launch a midsize demonstration satellite platform designed for communications, weather research and Earth observation missions, Via Satellite reported Friday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed's space business and a 2021 Wash100 awardee, said the company developed its LM 400 satellite bus hybrid in a push to help customers address evolving mission environments.

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by Nichols Martin March 8, 2021, 8:38 am
in Contract Awards, News

Kratos to Update Army Chinook Maintenance Trainers

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured an $8.9 million subcontract from USfalcon to modernize four avionics training systems and two maintenance-blended reconfigurable aviation trainers for the U.S. Army's CH-47F Chinook helicopter program.

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by Nichols Martin March 8, 2021, 7:58 am
in Industry News, News, Press Releases

White House Names Three Combatant Command Nominees

The White House announced on Saturday nominations for three U.S. combatant commands. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson was nominated to lead the U.S. Southern Command and a fourth star. Navy Adm. John Aquilino has been nominated to lead the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost was nominated to take over the U.S. Transportation Command.Â

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by Noah Chelednik March 8, 2021, 7:24 am
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StackArmor Helps Bitglass Achieve FedRAMP Cloud Security Compliance

Bitglass has used a security stack from stackArmor, an Amazon Web Services advanced consulting partner, to address compliance objectives in pursuit of Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification. Bitglass secured FedRAMP authority to operate at the moderate level for its Total Cloud Security Platform.

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by Matthew Nelson March 8, 2021, 7:04 am
in Executive Moves, News

Array CEO Sumeet Shrivastava Joins George Mason University’s Innovation Advisory Council

Sumeet Shrivastava, president and CEO of Array Information Technology, has been named a founding member of a George Mason University council tasked with guiding and promoting the school's innovation initiative.

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by Matthew Nelson March 8, 2021, 5:55 am
in Government Technology, News

Navy Seeks Industry Partners for Tech Intellectual Property Assessment

The Naval Surface Warfare Center's Dahlgren Division is looking to partner with companies to conduct a bibliometric analysis of intellectual properties in the technology watch and horizon scanning areas.

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by Nichols Martin March 8, 2021, 1:55 am
in News

Verizon Deploys 5G Service to Three Cities, Supports Network Adoption at Military Bases

Verizon has made a millimeter-wave 5G network service available to three U.S. cities and started the deployment of the new cellular technology at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, Fierce Wireless reported Thursday.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers March 8, 2021, 1:50 am
in Government Technology, News, Wash100

Steve Harris, Dell Technologies Public Sector SVP and GM, Receives Sixth Consecutive Wash100 Award; Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson Quoted

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector group at Dell Technologies, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award, the richest prize in all of government contracting (GovCon) for the sixth consecutive year.Â Executive Mosaic offers its congratulations to Steve Harris and the Dell Technologies team for their selection to receive the 2021 Wash100 Award.

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by William McCormick March 8, 2021, 1:21 am
in News

MDA Issues Final RFI on Hardware, Software to Support Battle Mgmt Platform

The Missile Defense Agency is looking for potential sources of concepts to support the planned command and control, battle management and communications platform for enterprise-wide defense network communications.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers March 8, 2021, 1:00 am
in Government Technology, News, Wash100

Serco Inc. Chairman, CEO Dave Dacquino Named to 2021 Wash100 for Driving Company Growth Through WBB, Alion’s Naval Systems Arm Acquisitions

Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, is thrilled to announce Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco, Inc, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most significant award in all of GovCon.Â This marks the second Wash100 win for Dacquino.Â

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by William McCormick March 5, 2021, 11:28 am
in Industry News, News, Press Releases

C3.ai Research Consortium Teams up With Shell to Drive Digital Transformation Initiatives; Tom Siebel Quoted

C3.ai has added Shell to the consortium of universities, national laboratories and companies that make up its Digital Transformation Institute. Detlef Hohl, chief scienctist for computation and data science at Shell, will represent the company in the consortium. â€œShell has established clear leadership in new energy, having laid out its â€˜Powering Progressâ€™ commitment to accelerate the transition of Shellâ€™s businesses to net zero emissions,â€ said Tom Siebel, C3.ai founder and CEO.Â

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by Sarah Sybert March 5, 2021, 11:00 am
in Industry News, News, Press Releases

Novetta to Support Military Service Members as DOD SkillBridge Program Authorized Organization

Novetta has been designated as an authorized organization under the Department of Defense (DOD) SkillBridge Program to train and hire transitioning U.S. military service members. "Our nation's heroes have the values and skills that make exceptional employees to support our customer missions," said Joe Zuliani, vice president of mission integration – special operations forces at Novetta and a retired U.S. Navy officer.

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by Sarah Sybert March 5, 2021, 10:41 am