ExecutiveBiz News on Video 10/27/2022

Robert Beyster, a GovCon sector legend who founded Science Applications International Corp., was honored by the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America in 1997 as the inaugural Technology Good Scout Award recipient. He established SAIC with an employee ownership structure in 1969 and it grew to an $11 billion company prior […]

Jeffrey Phelan, chief technologist of Public Sector business with H2O, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how emerging technology initiatives continue to impact the company’s digital transformation efforts as well as how recent telework changes are impacting the business and driving the greater success of its workforce during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with Jeffrey […]

Noblis has selected Matt Salter, former vice president of business development at the science, technology and strategy services provider, to assume the chief growth officer role and join the executive council as its new member. The first-ever Noblis CGO will oversee its growth strategy encompassing business development, capture, competitive analysis as well as marketing and […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Collins Aerospace a $42 million contract to work on the production of a modern communication system meant for the anticipated Survivable Airborne Operations Center.  Collins Aerospace’s development of the Common Very Low Frequency Receiver Increment 2 under the 30-month award is envisioned to aid the SAOC weapon system in […]

Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said the Department of Defense and other government agencies should treat artificial intelligence as a core technology element and as part of their foundational information technology infrastructure as they look to advance the use of AI to speed up the decision-making process. Badeau wrote in an opinion […]

KVH Industries, a Middletown, Rhode Island-based satellite communications provider, has secured a five-year, $69 million contract to extend connectivity support for the U.S. Coast Guard’s small cutter fleet. The company said Tuesday the service branch will continue using the KVH TracPhone V7-HTS Ku-band satellite communications system and mini-VSAT Broadband service on over 140 small cutters under […]

A Cherokee Federal business was tapped by the Defense Health Agency to provide services related to the implementation of the Military Health System Genesis under a $33.7 million award. Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions, which won a similar contract in 2020, is expected to perform work on the firm-fixed-price contract in various military treatment facilities outside […]

Palantir Technologies has booked a $22 million contract with the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the central operating platform for the agency’s initiative to ensure food supply chain resilience. The deal builds on Palantir’s existing partnership with the FDA for its 21 Forward program, which was created in 2020 to modernize approaches to […]

The Defense Innovation Unit and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have awarded five companies prototype contracts to develop commercial weather sensing technologies. The platforms will work to gather and integrate global weather sensing data from air, ground and space-based systems into the U.S. Air Force’s Weather Virtual Private Cloud to support environmental monitoring, […]

Trust Lab, a web security platform developer, and In-Q-Tel, the U.S. intelligence community’s venture capital arm, will work together to advance the detection of harmful online content to combat cyber risks such as misinformation and strengthen internet security overall.  Under the long-term partnership, the two entities will utilize Trust Lab’s machine learning-based rule engines and […]