ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 5/27/2021

Buurst announced on Thursday that it was named by Amazon Web Services‘ public sector business as a strategic provider for smart data migration. AWS, Buurst and Carahsoft will work to help public sector organizations migrate data to AWS cloud-native services. “Working with Buurst and AWS allows our public-sector customers to deploy the latest innovative technology […]

L3Harris Technologies will help Tobyhanna Army Depot repair segments a ground-based control center that the U.S. Air Force uses to communicate with and control an intelligence-gathering unmanned aircraft system. The company and the depot will jointly work on line repairable units that are portions of the MQ-9 Reaper aircraft’s ground control station, the Army said […]

John Nemoto and Chris Lavergne of CGI wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on GCN that federal agencies seeking to protect their networks from cyber threats and reduce the noise posed by high volume of network traffic should have a comprehensive cybersecurity framework in place. Lavergne and Nemoto said there are five factors agencies […]

Okta has secured provisional authority to operate certification for its identity management technology based on compliance with the Defense Information Systems Agency’s access controls and information security requirements in the cloud. Impact Level 4 P-ATO for Okta Identity Cloud allows government customers to manage digital identities and processes using the platform, the company said Wednesday. […]

Singapore-based product engineering and services company QuEST Global has established a subsidiary that would primarily cater to customers in the U.S. defense and aerospace markets. QuEST Defense Systems and Solutions will operate from Cincinnati, Ohio, and recruit over a thousand engineers during a five-year period to support industry clients while complying with U.S. industrial security […]

IHI, a Japan-based heavy-industry manufacturer, has completed its $20 million investment in NuScale Power and will serve as global manufacturing partner of the Oregon-headquartered small modular reactor technology provider as part of the agreement. IHI’s investment will also allow the Japanese engineering company to deliver steel plate reinforced concrete wall structures and designs in support […]

The Federal Risk and Management Program has granted the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard an authority to operate the cloud-based platform it developed in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research organization said Monday the Terra cloud-native tool is meant for use in biomedical research to access data and conduct analysis operations, […]

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has cleared a $30 million investment from South Korea-based Hanwha Systems to help Kymeta further develop its low-Earth orbit and geostationary orbit flat panel antenna technology and other next-generation capabilities. “We believe this investment will be instrumental in enabling the continued innovation, advancement and commercialization of […]

The U.S. Air Force has selected Woolpert to collect four-band imagery and linear-mode data at nine military installations located in Alaska. Under a one-year task order, the company will perform geospatial data collection work using light detection and ranging technology for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center-led Combat Support Geospatial Information and Services program, Woolpert […]

IBM has added ColdQuanta to its global community through which the latter will collaborate with other member companies, research laboratories and academic institutions to study practical applications of quantum computing and to advance the said technology. ColdQuanta said Wednesday it partnered with IBM and joined its Quantum Network to collaboratively develop quantum technologies and push […]