ExecutiveBiz News on Video 11/7/2022

Inmarsat‘s government business arm has received a potential five-year, $410 million blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker network services. Inmarsat Elera-powered, L-band satellite communications will be used to enable connectivity between BFT platforms and satellite earth stations, the company said Monday. The new work […]

Rob Lalumondier, vice president of federal at Sophos, shared his thoughts on President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order and how the policy advances the adoption of technologies including multifactor authentication and zero trust infrastructure at agencies. “In addition, we’re also seeing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that has been widely discussed and the much needed billion […]

Northrop Grumman kicked off a seventh cargo flight under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract on Monday morning to deliver over 8,200 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed ‘S.S. Sally Ride’ after the first American woman to reach space, launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility […]

Granite Construction has secured a $30 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to perform renovations and constructions at East Tongue Point in Oregon, where two U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutters will be homeported. The design-build contract covers a fixed pier, floating docks, gangways connecting the floating docks to the pier, new pavement […]

Axim Geospatial, formerly named Continental Mapping Consultants, will utilize synthetic aperture radar data to identify and assess change detection of transportation assets and equipment in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Economic Indicator Monitoring initiative. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-headquartered Axim said the delivery order awarded under NGA’s EIM contract vehicle requires the company to provide commercial […]

Rocket Lab has commenced operations on its new testing facility at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi where it will develop and test the Archimedes reusable engine.  The aerospace manufacturer’s Archimedes Test Complex will see testing work on 165,000 pound-force of engines, which will be utilized for the production of its reusable Neutron launch vehicle, […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and the U.S. Air Force performed a test flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona as part of the Block 2 Valkyrie Maturation Program. Kratos and the Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrated the aircraft’s encrypted communications with redundant radios for operational and […]

SkyWater Technology has completed the first phase of a manufacturing capability for silicon bridge interposers with its partner Bridg, a nonprofit developer of microelectronics, and the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre. The development initiative is part of the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program funded by the Department of Defense, SkyWater said Thursday. The new baseline fabrication […]

Joel Bagnal, director of federal business at cybercrime analytics provider SpyCloud, said he expects future cybersecurity performance goals from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to pave way to better visibility into cyberthreats facing the critical infrastructure sector, InformationWeek reported Friday. Bagnal’s statement comes a week after CISA released a new set of cybersecurity performance […]

A division of shipbuilding company HII has introduced a new unmanned underwater vehicle optimized for U.S. Navy deployment. The REMUS 620 was constructed by HII Mission Technologies for duties such as intelligence gathering, mine protection, electronic warfare and hydrographic surveys, the McLean, Virginia-based business unit said Monday. Duane Fotheringham, president of the unmanned systems group within Mission Technologies, […]