ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 8/11/2021

Charles Onstott, chief technology officer for CALIBRE Systems, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its most recent Executive Spotlight interview detailing his transition as CTO for the company, the major improvements of emerging technology in the federal landscape, the unique challenges on the business side of innovation as well as the ethical changes still to come. […]

Peraton has been awarded a potential five-year, $979 million task order to help the Department of Defense, U.S. Central Command and its partners gain operational edge in information systems and strengthen national security. The Chantilly, Virginia-based company will provide operational planning, implementation and assessment services and boost the coordination and information-related capabilities of USCENTCOM and […]

Srini Iyer, a senior vice president, chief technology officer and head of the innovation and capabilities office at ManTech International, said federal health agencies should take the right steps to health information technology transformation and one of the efforts industry could do to help agencies in their IT modernization journey is to explore new and […]

Lockheed Martin has finished constructing a new 215,000-square foot advanced manufacturing facility at the headquarters of its aerospace company Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The new factory combines robotics, artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enable fast and agile manufacturing processes in support of the U.S. and its allies, Lockheed said Tuesday. The facility, which […]

An LMI and Exiger partnership has received a Defense Logistics Agency contract that provides for use of artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for the development of a pilot supply chain program.  Under the contract, DLA will leverage the New York-based supply chain risk management company’s proprietary AI/ML platform known as Due Diligence IQ to […]

Raytheon Technologies and Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary will use digital engineering techniques to develop digital models of infrared sensors for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The companies will utilize digital engineering to test and validate whether the missile tracking satellites can operate in medium-Earth orbit under two […]

A Xator subsidiary has received a $46.8 million contract to build a multimodal biometric system to support vetting procedures at State Department facilities worldwide. InCadence Strategic Solutions will help the department’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer implement the Ares biometric technology and the Diplomatic Security Identity Assurance System under the 10-year contract, Xator said […]

Harpoon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm, has raised a new $120 million fund as it continues to help early-stage technology startups win federal contracts, Fast Company reported Tuesday. Former servicemen William Allen and Larsen Jensen founded Harpoon in 2018 and have helped startups gain access to 52 federal contracts valued at $496 million […]

Expression Networks and Global Healthcare Exchange will collaborate on the development of a new predictive analytics tool under the former’s phase 2 award from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command in support of a nationwide remote intensive care initiative. The prototype will combine GHX’s supply chain data and analytics with Expression Network’s artificial […]

ProtectedBy.AI has secured a potential $7.6 million award to prototype a blockchain analysis platform for the U.S. government’s Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate and its Counter Threat Finance initiative.  The award was made through the Consortium Management Group in support of the IWTSD, which identifies and develops irregular warfare technologies for the Department of Defense […]