ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/18/2021

A PAE subsidiary has been awarded a potential $177.5 million task order to provide administrative and operational services under the humanitarian assistance support contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Macfadden will help USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance by deploying support services that include grant administration, interagency and cooperative agreements, staff training and capacity […]

Lauren Lyons, former executive at Blue Origin and SpaceX, was appointed as chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace where she will be responsible for driving efforts in scaling production and operations to support company growth. The new COO will focus on moving Firefly toward a production environment from its research and development setting to ensure […]

Halvik will assist a U.S. Army office in integrating logistical programs, policies and procedures to enhance the service branch’s supply chain under a five-year contract that has an estimated value of $62 million. The company said Tuesday it will help the Army’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff G-4 augment commodities and sustainment functional […]

The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded a contract modification to BlackSky Holdings for access to real-time satellite imagery that provides defense and intelligence communities with information on pattern-of-life anomalies. The satellites of BlackSky, capable of providing intraday revisit capabilities, will generate on-demand images intended to support homeland defense, national security and disaster and emergency response […]

The infrared sensor payload design made by Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business has concluded its critical design review as part of a prototyping effort in support of the future missile warning satellite constellation of the U.S. Space Force. The CDR completion allows Raytheon, one of the two companies tapped to create digital sensor models, […]

Brian McMahon, director of cloud architecture at ManTech International, said the company secured a contract via the Defense Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot program after demonstrating its Secure Tactical Edge Platform in a denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environment during a U.S. Navy demonstration in late 2020. McMahon wrote in an article published Tuesday that ST3P […]

Bill Conroy, president of Conroy Advisors, has joined the board of directors at Austin, Texas-based mobile enterprise security technology provider Hypori. He brings decades of technology industry experience to the board as Hypori pursues market expansion and strategic development initiatives, the company said Wednesday. Jared Shepard, CEO of Hypori, said that Conroy “has the proven […]

The Internal Revenue Service has released a draft request for proposal detailing its requirement for augmented reality capabilities in support of the Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office’s efforts in reducing manual processes and enhancing taxpayer services and compliance operations. EDCMO AR requirement, or Solution Challenge Seven under the Pilot IRS program, is meant to […]

Buchanan & Edwards has secured a five-year, $42.3 million contract to support cloud migration of the Government Accountability Office’s system for developing and distributing agency reports. The company said Tuesday it will provide modernization support to GAO’s information systems and technology services office as part of the New Blue System Operations & Maintenance program. Mohamed […]

Northrop Grumman has completed the integration of its agnostic gateway systems with L3Harris Technologies’ High Capacity Backbone capability, validating the open architecture nature of the former’s high-speed connectivity system.  Northrop said Tuesday that with the advanced HCB gateway capabilities enabling 300 times faster data flow, the Department of Defense can leverage upgraded network architecture required […]