ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 8/16/2021

Global Technical Systems has won a five-year, $81.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the delivery of DLQ-9 carriage system pods and associated hardware, and required technical data. The contractor will provide one lot of the pods, the equipment needed for its modifications and data required for the simulation of electronic warfare threats, under […]

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has secured authorization to operate for its Azure Government Top Secret cloud platform, enabling it to support national security agency clients with data workloads classified at the Top Secret level. Keane wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft achieved the […]

Tantus Technologies will provide financial management services in support of the systems used by the Office of Personnel Management to handle $151 billion in estimated federal retirement trust funds through fiscal year 2025. The company said Thursday it received a contract award to help OPM’s chief financial officer operate, maintain, develop, modernize, update, assess and […]

Satellite communications company PathFinder Digital has received follow-on orders for BAT-GBS-85 mobile very small aperture terminals in support of the Department of Defense’s Global Broadcast Service program. BAT-GBS-85 is an airline-checkable and flyaway MVSAT system that operates on the Ka and Ku bands and has certification under MIL-STD-810G and ARSTRAT standards, PathFinder said Friday. The […]

General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has launched a new center of excellence in Taunton, Massachusetts for the production and testing of unmanned undersea vehicles. The UUV Manufacturing and Assembly CoE of General Dynamics Mission Systems is a repurposed part of the existing facility and is dedicated to supporting UUV manufacturing, integration, assembly and testing, the […]

Jay Hadley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, said leaders from federal, state, municipal and tribal governments must carefully coordinate the implementation of environmental regulation systems to address climate change challenges. He wrote in a piece GCN published Friday that coordination is essential to addressing technology challenges faced by partnerships between the Environmental Protection […]

Verizon has partnered with digital infrastructure company Equinix to expand its software-defined interconnect technology and allow global and public sector customers to automatically connect multiprotocol label switching and Ethernet private networks to clouds and other service providers. The expansion will enable users to obtain fast network services activation at lower access cost and improved networking […]

BlackSky Holdings and Palantir Technologies have completed a joint project aimed at integrating high-resolution imagery with deep analytics to provide real-time geointelligence and demonstrate the impact of global monitoring from space.  The pilot program combined BlackSky’s commercial satellite imagery and analytics and Palantir Foundry to demonstrate the capability to deploy worldwide intelligence that can potentially […]

The FBI has asked industry for insights on how to design and execute a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement to acquire contractor Agile teams to meet mission requirements. The bureau plans to use Scaled Agile Framework methodologies and principles for the FBI Agile Services Teams acquisition effort, according to a request for information posted Friday on […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a virtual proposers day on Aug. 27 to discuss the broad agency announcement for the Assessing Immune Memory Program. DARPA officials will talk about the development initiative for a tool planned to examine the immune memory responses of military service members to vaccination, a notice on SAM.gov […]