ExecutiveBiz News on Video 11/15/2022

Maximus has been awarded a five-year, $100 million contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enhance the CDC-INFO program, which delivers crucial health information to millions across the U.S. The contract stipulates that Maximus will deliver elevated technology and operational improvements to the program, the McLean, Virginia-based organization announced on Monday. Teresa […]

Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […]

GitLab has promoted Joel Krooswyk from his role as senior manager of solutions architecture to the company’s newly created position of federal chief technology officer. Krooswyk will aim to expand business relationships between the DevSecOps platform provider and software development professionals in the federal sector, GitLab said Monday. The 25-year software industry veteran joined the […]

Serco‘s U.S. business arm has secured a potential $47.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the maintenance and operation of an antenna refurbishment initiative in support of the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific.  The Defense Department said Monday work on the Satellite Communication Capability-Based In-Service Engineering Activity Antenna effort is under the firm-fixed-price award that […]

Applied Intuition, a Mountain View, California-based software developer, has received a two-year contract with a maximum value of $49 million to deliver a modeling and simulation platform to the U.S. Army for the service branch’s Robotic Combat Vehicle Program. The end-to-end autonomy software development and test technology is envisioned to assist the RCV team within the […]

More than 350 officials representing the U.S. government, military, non-governmental organizations, education sector, federal contractors and small businesses are expected to attend the International Stability Operations Association’s 16th annual summit on Nov. 17 and 18. This year’s conference will focus on how global stability operations providers are affected by issues amid situations in Ukraine and […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has awarded two startup companies other transaction contracts to develop systems for monitoring potentially anomalous events in video footage. Flux Tensor of Kansas and Lauretta AI of Massachusetts respectively secured phase one awards worth $199,833 and $198,000 for the Securing Soft Targets project under the first […]

The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […]

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is set to deploy a new integrated software and hardware platform built by SambaNova Systems for deploying artificial intelligence capabilities for science workloads. The DataScale system will be available through Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s AI Testbed, a collection of AI-accelerator machines designed to advance the use of the […]

Space Systems Command has transported the Northrop Grumman-built long-duration propulsive-evolved expendable launch vehicle secondary payload adapter to Astrotech Space Operations’ processing facility in Florida in preparation for the U.S. Space Force-67 launch mission in 2023. The LDPE-3A satellite bus will launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket and will carry multiple experimental and prototype payloads designed […]