ExecutiveBiz News on Video 11/2/2022

Executive Mosaic, the government contracting sector’s premier media and events organization, is honored to announce the launch of the highly-anticipated 2023 Wash100 Award season for its historic 10th year.  The Wash100 Award, GovCon’s most prestigious accolade, annually recognizes the top 100 executives of consequence in the GovCon community in anticipation of their invaluable contributions, groundbreaking achievements […]

Christopher Galvin, former chairman and CEO of Motorola, joined the board of directors of ColdQuanta following the executive’s investment in the quantum technology company via recent Series B funding round. ColdQuanta said Tuesday it raised $110 million through the financing round, which was led by LCP Quantum along with other investors such as In-Q-Tel, Sumitomo […]

BAE Systems has opened a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based facility that will house its GPS technology design, engineering and manufacturing operations and support business growth efforts. The company said Tuesday it invested $100 million in the construction of the new site, where its navigation and sensor systems business will be located. BAE’s new center of excellence […]

CACI International has collaborated with the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation to enhance midshipmen training on electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum operations. Under the partnership, CACI will assist USNA in the development of an EMS program meant to prepare midshipmen for electromagnetic events that pose threats to national security, the company said Tuesday. CACI will deliver […]

Oshkosh‘s defense business arm has put forward its bid for phases 3 and 4 of the U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program. Oshkosh Defense said Tuesdat it collaborated with Pratt Miller Defense, Hanwha Defense USA, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, QinetiQ and Plasan to work on the design and prototype test build of the war […]

Spire Global has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform preliminary satellite design work for a program aimed at bringing ionospheric data-gathering sensors to very low-Earth orbit. Contract work is part of the Ouija program, DARPA’s new effort to understand the propagation of high-frequency radio waves within the ionized part […]

A Day & Zimmermann division has received an $18 million contract to renovate facilities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that will store a new device intended to help researchers develop fusion reactor materials. The Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facilities Enhancement project will mark the first government sector work for D&Z’s maintenance and […]

L3Harris Technologies has supplied the U.S. Army with almost 600 additional units of Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular, bringing overall deliveries to the service branch to 10,000 to date. The defense contractor said Tuesday it handed over the supplementary ENVG-Bs to the ninth Army brigade and will provide the military service with more goggles under a new […]

A National Security Space Launch mission, called U.S. Space Force-44, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Tuesday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deploy multiple satellites into geosynchronous Earth orbit. The Space Force said Tuesday the Space Launch Delta 45 unit supported the USSF-44 mission, which included the Long […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has completed the first on-sky test of its Castor telescope equipped with an adaptive optics system developed by General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business. The company said Tuesday the AO technology was able to detect dim, high-contrast and closely spaced objects, guiding the telescope toward what is now known as […]