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Carahsoft Brings Proven Optics Financial Management Platform to Public Sector Market
Carahsoft Technology has begun offering Proven Optics' suite of financial management applications to the federal and local government sectors via two contract vehicles managed by NASA and the National Association of State Procurement Officials. As a master government aggregator, Carahsoft made the offering available in the public sector through the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and NASPO ValuePoint programs, the company said Thursday.
GDIT’s Lyle Kellman: DEOS Cloud Tools Could Help Improve Interagency Collaboration, Security
Lyle Kellman, deputy program manager for Defense Enterprise Office Solutions at General Dynamics’ information technology business, said migrating to cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools offered by the DEOS contract will help defense agencies reduce costs and improve user experience and interagency collaboration, Federal News Network reported Thursday.
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MemComputing to Help Air Force Researchers Automate Airborne Tracking
MemComputing has received a contract to develop a technology that would help the U.S. Space Force and Air force process satellite imagery for airborne target tracking. The company said Thursday it will perform this work for Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate as part of a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from AFWERX.
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Sikorsky Books $94M Option on Black Hawk Medevac Helicopter Production Contract
Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $94.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce six additional Black Hawk helicopters intended for medical evacuation use. The branch exercised an option under a previously awarded contract to procure lot 45 HH-60M choppers, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
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CACI to Support DARPA’s R&D Effort on Wideband-Secure Tactical Radio Comms
CACI International has received a four-year, $11.2 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop technologies to enable secure radio communications. CACI will provide research and development support for DARPA’s Wideband Secure and Protected Emitter and Receiver program as part of the completion contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
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WidePoint Secures $86M in DHS Wireless Cellular Support Task Orders
WidePoint has received task orders worth approximately $86 million combined to help the Department of Homeland Security deliver wireless cellular services across its components. WidePoint said Wednesday the task orders come as part of the potential $500 million Cellular Wireless Managed Services 2.0Â indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that the company secured in November 2020.
ABL Space Systems Closes $170M Series B Funding Round
ABL Space Systems has raised $170 million in a round of Series B financing led by accounts and funds advised by global investment management firm T. Rowe Price Associates. Existing investors, Fidelity Management and Research and an unnamed global investment management firm participated in the new funding round that values ABL at $1.3 billion.
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Army Taps AeroVironment to Update Avionics Tech for Raven sUAS Fleet
AeroVironment has received a $20.9 million contract option to provide data link and avionics technology packages to update radio frequency elements of the U.S. Army’s Raven unmanned aerial systems. AeroVironment said Thursday the contract action serves as the second option year of the potential $55 million flight control systems area of the Army’s five-year Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems award.
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Former USAF Acquisition Chief Will Roper Appointed to Vita Inclinata Board
Will Roper, former assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the U.S. Air Force and a three-time Wash100 winner, has been named to Vita Inclinata's board of directors. Caleb Carr, president and CEO of Vita Inclinata, said in a statement published Thursday Roper will work with the company as it works to provide military branches and civilian markets with military-grade safety offerings.
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Raytheon Completes Delivery of First Navy Tomahawk Block V Missile
The U.S. Navy has received its first Tomahawk Block V missile from Raytheon Technologies' missiles and defense business. Tomahawk missiles are GPS-enabled weapons designed to defeat targets at a distance of 1,000 miles, the company said Thursday.
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Boeing Investment Supports Space Center Houston’s STEM Education Program; John Mulholland Quoted
A Houston-based space exploration learning center has received more than $2 million from Boeing since 1992 as part of the company's investment in educational programs to promote the science, technology, engineering and math fields to young people. Space Center Houston initiatives have drawn at least 250,000 educators and students worldwide each year, Boeing said Thursday.