ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 6/17/2021

Verizon Public Sector has secured a $495 million Department of Defense (DOD) contract to deliver a next-generation, high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network supporting critical research. The company will provide switch, router, firewall and Edge Compute capabilities to help connect 200 different research, development, test, and evaluation laboratories and High-Performance Computing locations across the […]

The U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, has selected three companies to provide submarine materials as part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract that has a $72 million combined ceiling value. Globe Composite Solutions, Goodrich Corp. and Westland Technologies will compete for delivery orders under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said […]

CAES has added Mark Esper, former secretary of the Department of Defense, to the company’s board of directors in an effort to strengthen its executive leadership team and board. The company said Thursday Esper, as a board member, will work across the diverse portfolio of CAES mission-critical offerings for air, sea, space and land platforms and […]

VTG has secured a five-year, $27 million contract to provide services in support of Naval Sea Systems Command efforts in managing and supporting research and development projects pursued by small businesses. The company said Wednesday it will define focus areas, develop topics and collect proposals for NAVSEA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology […]

Amentum, a technical and engineering services provider, was awarded a task order to help in the deployment of tactical vehicles to the U.S. Army’s command centers within the country and abroad. The task order is under the Strategic Services Solutions equipment-related services contract with the Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Amentum said Wednesday. The Germantown, Maryland-based […]

A joint venture between Atlas Research and Prometheus Federal Services has received a task order to help the Veterans Health Administration develop an organizational transformation plan for a program office focused on providing workforce development training resources and services to agency personnel. Titan Alpha will perform work to support VHA’s goal of transforming its employee […]

Stratos Davlos, former executive at IBM‘s Watson business, will lead a software team at Astra as part of his appointment as the space services provider’s senior vice president of software. The 20-year veteran in artificial intelligence and machine learning will oversee the intelligent operating system that supports Astra’s space platform and operations, the California-based company […]

Endace has helped the Defense Information Systems Agency implement new technology built to give analysis historical data on network activity to investigate security and system performance issues. DISA selected the EndaceProbe appliance to update the agency’s packet capture platform, accelerate its data mining process and analyze traffic across internet access points, the company said Wednesday. […]

Parsons has integrated the secondary payload on the Altas V rocket for the Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 5 mission as part of the company’s $100 million Launch Manifest Systems Integrator contract awarded in 2019. The company said Wednesday two Technology Demonstration Orbiters named TDO-3 and TDO-4 were delivered to ride-share on the […]

Boeing and NASA teams started fueling the company’s CST-100 Starliner crew and service modules in preparation for the spacecraft’s second flight test that is scheduled to launch on July 30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket. The Orbital Flight Test-2 mission will allow NASA and […]