ExecutiveBiz News on Video 10/14/2022

Nelson Ford, former president and CEO of LMI and the 29th under secretary of the Army, was awarded the 2011 Technology Good Scout recognition from the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He currently serves as a board member at Acus Foundation, a Berkeley, California-based organization whose mission is to facilitate […]

Dan Corbett, CEO of Valiant Integrated Services, spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how the company is establishing significant partnerships to drive its growth in new markets as well as how its workforce is being driven for long-term success in the highly competitive federal market during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with Dan Corbett below. […]

Charles Whitaker, a U.S. Army veteran with over 30 years of military and industry experience, was named as vice president of strategy at service-disabled veteran-owned small business Barbaricum. In this role, Whitaker will steer the government contracting company’s global strategy to support warfighters, Barbaricum said Thursday. Whitaker was recently the chief operating officer at METIS […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $60 million contract to Axon to provide the VA Police with in-car and body cameras and software technology. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract provides for Axon’s Fleet 3 in-car cameras, Body 3 cameras and automated license plate reader powered by artificial intelligence technology, the company announced Thursday. Veterans integrated […]

Planet Labs’ federal subsidiary has secured a contract extension from NASA to give scientists and researchers continued access to its satellite imaging data. The contract extension allows over 300,000 scientists and researchers, who are funded by the National Science Foundation and federal civilian agencies, to use the company’s data through September 2023 for studies on changing […]

Khalid Syed, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a leader within the company’s global defense sector, said the company will join other industry partners, academic institutions and military services to demonstrate technologies at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2022 as part of efforts to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. […]

An interoperable open radio access network system developed by Radisys has won top prizes in the third and final stage of the Federal 5G Challenge. Radisys’ technology received the Best Software Bill of Materials award and Network Integration Prize for its distributed unit, the company said Thursday. The competition is an initiative of the National […]

Nokia and the Energy Sciences Network of the Department of Energy have launched a next-generation internet protocol network, dubbed ESnet6, designed to enable U.S. and international research institutions to process and share large volumes of research data produced by experiments and simulations. ESnet6 uses Nokia’s 7750 Service Router platforms to provide up to 400 Gigabytes […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight teams for a new program that aims to develop practical tools and approaches to anticipate and mitigate emergent behaviors of modern computer systems that can pose vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. DARPA said Thursday the three-phase Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines program seeks to enhance […]

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space division, said the aerospace and defense company aims to enter into partnerships with smaller space technology developers to speed up engineering and manufacturing efforts, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Speaking at the Satellite Innovation conference in California, the former NASA acting administrator said Lockheed partners and invests in […]