ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/10/2021

Tetra Tech has received a spot on a five-year, $49 million multiple-award contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for geospatial services in support of its Digital Coast program. The Pasadena, California-based company said Thursday it will provide data acquisition and analytics services to help the NOAA reduce the damage to the U.S. coastline […]

The Department of Energy has awarded $64.7 million in total funds to 22 projects that will focus on developing processes and technologies to produce renewable fuel that can power ships and airplanes. The biofuel research efforts are divided into five topic areas and meant to support the White House’s aviation sector decarbonization and net-zero economywide […]

NASA is pursuing technology development efforts and partnerships with both private and public sectors to help the government boost aviation sustainability specifically through reduction of carbon emissions. The agency said Friday Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, spoke at a White House-led event and shared how aeronautics researchers are working on new, environment-friendly technologies for aircraft propulsion. […]

BAE Systems has secured a $26 million contract to provide the U.S. Navy with identification friend-or-foe transponders that will be integrated into the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for enhanced situational awareness and early warning capabilities. The company said Thursday it will supply the service branch with Beamforming Networks, which is part of the antenna control […]

ECS has secured a five-year, $36.7 million contract to support U.S. Central Command in mission areas such as command and control, information sharing, knowledge management and security cooperation. The Fairfax, Virginia-based company said Thursday it will provide supervision, subject matter expertise, personnel and support to the C2 division within CENTCOM’s operations directorate. Subject matter experts […]

Jay Chaudhry, founder, chairman and CEO of Zscaler, said the San Jose, California-based company added 20 government clients in the fiscal fourth quarter ended July 31 and has been selected to conduct a pilot program meant to advance implementation of zero trust architectures in line with the current administration’s cybersecurity executive order, CRN reported Thursday. […]

Carahsoft now offers Tenable’s risk-based cybersecurity platform to government customers through its spot on the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract and other government acquisition vehicles. Carahsoft said Thursday it serves as a public sector distributor for Tenable’s Cyber Exposure Platform, which is designed to provide cyber oversight across an organization’s IT, operational […]

Skydweller Aero has secured $40 million in a round of Series A financing led by Leonardo, Advection Growth Capital and Marlinspike Capital and will use the funds to further develop its autonomous systems, air vehicles and intelligence and data collection service offerings. Skydweller said Thursday it also partnered with Palantir Technologies to use the latter’s […]

Redspin, a third party assessor organization under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, has signed nearly $400,000 in new customer agreements ahead of the rollout of the Department of Defense’s security framework. Mac McMillan, CEO and president of Redspin’s parent company CynergisTek, said in a statement published Thursday the cyber organization is preparing to meet […]

Idemia will deliver an identity proofing technology to NASA in an effort to provide the space agency with a tool for remote enrolment and verification of the identities of its partners and collaborators. The Remote Identity Proofing tool is designed to allow users to accomplish enrollment tasks, such as photo ID capture and validation, driver’s […]