ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/23/2021

Maxar Technologies has received a $60 million contract to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency operate a classified national security platform for analyzing large amounts of data. The company said Monday it will continue to support analytics technology for the intelligence community and defense agencies under the five-year contract. “Our work now focuses on improving access […]

Sandy Brown, a vice president at Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, said the company aims to help the U.S. Space Force revolutionize mission management and data processing of Global Positioning System III Follow-On satellites by updating the ground control segment for the GPS constellation. She told Breaking Defense that the Next Generation Operational Control […]

General Dynamics has received a contract from the U.S. Army to build a prototype of its electronic warfare system for use aboard the new Infantry Squad Vehicle of the service branch’s Infantry Brigade Combat Team, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. The contractor will test how its Tactical Electronic Warfare System will use power from the ISV to […]

The Office of Naval Research has tasked General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business to determine how to integrate propulsion and power storage systems into large-displacement unmanned underwater vehicles. Under the concept design contract, the company will work on a motor and an energy system that could meet the performance requirements of future LDUUVs, GA said Friday. […]

Nineteen out of 24 small business participants during the Space Force Pitch Day will each receive a $1.7 million contract to further develop their existing projects for the U.S. Space Force, SpaceNews reported Friday. The selected companies will move their projects to the second phase of development under the Space Force’s Small Business Innovation Research […]

The Department of Defense is advancing the Joint All-Domain Command and Control program and Kevin McNeill, senior vice president of cyberspace solutions at CACI International, said digital twins could help DOD test the resiliency of systems within the JADC2 environment, Federal News Network reported Friday. “That’s a very complex environment. So creating a digital twin […]

Eight companies will take part in the modeling and simulation cohort of the Air Force Research Lab Space Vehicles Directorate’s Catalyst Accelerator that will focus on digital engineering for space applications.  The program is intended to boost technology advancement and lead the government to industry technology transfer, Catalyst Accelerator said Friday. Under the eighth accelerator, […]

Top technology executives from Microsoft‘s federal arm have outlined how the industry can help government agencies realize President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity, Federal News Network reported Friday. Steve Faehl, chief technology officer of security at Microsoft Federal, said the government has many areas of improvement essential to achieving modernized cybersecurity. These areas include […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries has christened the 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship manufactured by its Ingalls Shipbuilding division for the U.S. Navy in support of its amphibious and expeditionary missions. HII said Saturday LPD 28 is named Fort Lauderdale in recognition of the Florida city’s decades-long contributions to the Navy, including serving as a […]

Day & Zimmermann plans to team up with an NIOA subsidiary, subject to the approvals of the U.S. government, to work on upcoming manufacturing projects and help support the Australian Defence Force. The family-owned supplier of construction, engineering and defense products and services said Saturday it will collaborate with Australian Missile Corp. in supporting the goal […]