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  • Teams Led by Raytheon, Lockheed to Work on Evolved Strategic SATCOM Ground Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teams Led by Raytheon, Lockheed to Work on Evolved Strategic SATCOM Ground Segment

    Two teams led by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have received prototype demonstration agreements from Space Systems Command to support the ground segment of the Evolved Strategic SATCOM program. The command said Tuesday it awarded the agreements through the Space Enterprise Consortium’s other transaction authority in support of the ESS Ground Resilient Integration & Framework […] More

  • 5 Teams Land Phase A Study Contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Teams Land Phase A Study Contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument

    NASA has selected four companies and one university research organization to conduct phase A study on developing a solar coronagraph instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s space weather forecasting mission. EO Vista, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, Southwest Research Institute and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space […] More

  • US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Forms Team for Space Situational Awareness Campaign - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Forms Team for Space Situational Awareness Campaign

    The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation has created the Space Situational Awareness working group to develop community consensus regarding how sensor technologies help establish space domain understanding, SatNews reported Tuesday. Denny Brisley, president and chief operating officer of NorthStar Earth and Space, and Robert Zitz, president of Robert Zitz and Associates, will act as co-chairs of the […] More

  • Equinix's Jim Gwiazda Suggests 3 Ways for Public Sector Agencies to Optimize Digital Ecosystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Equinix’s Jim Gwiazda Suggests 3 Ways for Public Sector Agencies to Optimize Digital Ecosystems

    Jim Gwiazda, vice president of public sector sales at Equinix, said there are three ways public sector agencies can implement to optimize their digital ecosystems and support their mission objectives and the first is integrating with software-as-a-service providers. “Working with SaaS providers allows public sector agencies to add new capabilities quickly,” Gwiazda wrote in a […] More

  • Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former HII Senior Counsel Adam Overstreet Joins Austal USA as Legal Affairs VP & Compliance Chief

    Adam Overstreet, former senior counsel at HII, has been named vice president of legal affairs and chief compliance officer at Austal USA. His new responsibilities include overseeing legal issues in employment, labor and commercial transactions, as well as leading continuous implementation and enhancement of Austal USA’s compliance activities, the company said Tuesday. Overstreet’s law background […] More

  • USPTO Issues Torch.AI Patent for Multipart Data Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USPTO Issues Torch.AI Patent for Multipart Data Analysis

    Torch. AI has earned a patent for combinatorial inflight analysis of multipart data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, marking the completion of a nearly four-year patent effort. The inflight analysis process will utilize pre-trained machine learning models to streamline real-time consumption, analysis and data comprehension, the artificial intelligence company said Monday.  Torch.AI CEO […] More

  • General Atomics Unit Completes Development of Spacecraft Simulator for NASA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unit Completes Development of Spacecraft Simulator for NASA Program

    General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has finished building a simulator that will be used in preparation for a space mission intended to monitor and measure solar activities relevant to the Earth’s climate. The company said Monday General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems delivered the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 spacecraft simulator to the University of Colorado Laboratory […] More

  • Zscaler-Leidos Partnership Seeks to Advance Federal 5G Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zscaler-Leidos Partnership Seeks to Advance Federal 5G Adoption

    Zscaler and Leidos have partnered to help federal and defense agencies accelerate 5G adoption and enable the technology to power various applications, such as autonomous vehicles, predictive fleet maintenance and smart bases. Leidos will develop prototypes and assess 5G-enabled platforms for government and defense agencies and critical infrastructure through Zscaler’s 5G Innovation Center in San […] More

  • Triman Holdings Updates Branding to Blue Raven Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triman Holdings Updates Branding to Blue Raven Solutions

    Triman Holdings, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has rebranded as Blue Raven Solutions to reinforce its focus on establishing itself as a provider of military aftermarket distribution and supply chain management offerings. The move also aligns with its purchase of Crestwood Technology Group and Brighton Cromwell in December 2021 and subsequent combination of […] More

  • Former DIU Director Michael Brown Named Partner at Shield Capital - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DIU Director Michael Brown Named Partner at Shield Capital

    Michael Brown, a previous Wash100 awardee who used to lead the Department of Defense’s innovation arm, was appointed as full-time partner at Shield Capital after serving as venture partner at the private equity firm since October 2022. He brings to the role his deep understanding of the firm’s artificial intelligence, autonomy, cybersecurity and space investments and his […] More

  • DOD Seeks Tactical Augmented Reality Tech Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Seeks Tactical Augmented Reality Tech Innovation

    The Department of Defense is looking for companies capable of developing a tactical augmented reality system that can give soldiers immediate access to mission critical data and boost their situational awareness. In a notice published by the Defense Innovation Unit, the agency called on vendors to submit proposals for TAR technology to help warfighters perform […] More