ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/16/2022

Maxar Technologies, a space and geospatial intelligence-focused company, has agreed to be acquired by Advent International, a global private equity investor. The all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion is aimed at positioning Maxar to accelerate its investments into satellite technologies and data understanding to better support its customers in both the public and private sectors, the two […]

Cybersecurity firm Invictus was named as the awardee of a potential eight-year contract to handle the information technology upgrade of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s top-secret Joint Worldwide Intelligence Collection System, Defense News reported Friday.  Under the contract, the Washington, D.C.-based, veteran-owned business will concentrate on replacing outdated infrastructure, enhancing cybersecurity and ensuring that the modernized […]

A Raytheon Technologies business will continue equipping the U.S. Army with more Excalibur 1B projectiles under an $84 million contract modification from the Joint Program Executive Office for Armaments and Ammunition and Army Contracting Command. Using the Tranche Seven funding, over 1,000 Excalibur ammo are expected to be delivered to the Army to replenish its […]

Google‘s public sector business helped the U.S. Navy implement a suite of cloud-based communications and collaboration applications for a shipyard located in Japan. Lynn Martin, vice president of the North American public sector business at Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post the Workspace platform allows U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance […]

Northrop Grumman will conduct phase E operations and maintenance work on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope under a $31.2 million contract. The company will check JWST systems performance, perform flight software updates and make safety recommendations as part of the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the space agency said Thursday. Services under the sole-source award are scheduled to […]

BigBear.ai partnered with Accenture’s federal arm and the U.S. Navy to demonstrate its decision support technology offering, called Ursa Minor, at the service branch’s Digital Horizon, a three-week artificial intelligence and unmanned integration event that concluded Thursday in Bahrain. Ursa Minor uses machine learning-augmented algorithms and analytics to detect potential threats and works to provide […]

Eleven companies are set to receive $2.9 million in total funds from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to optimize wind turbine system designs, modernize manufacturing processes and contribute to distributed wind turbine deployment efforts in the U.S. NREL will issue the awards as part of the 2022-2023 Competitiveness Improvement Project, which offers financial and technical […]

L3Harris Technologies has delivered the first T7 explosive ordinance disposal robots to the U.S. Air Force as part of the 10-year, $85 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.  The company delivered four robots out of the initial 56 units requested. The Air Force requested additional 51 T7 EOD robots in May, bringing the total order to 107, the […]

Paperless Innovations has featured an ongoing survey that aims to gain insights on the use of data by agencies and other government organizations to derive actionable intelligence in support of improved business, operations and customer experiences. The Data and Actionable Intelligence Survey of Federal News Network was launched in mid-December to measure public sector agencies’ […]

NASA and its industry partners have completed the initial test of a redesigned rocket engine that would be used on Artemis V and other future missions of the Space Launch System. The agency said Friday it conducted the trial at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, in collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne, lead contractor of the RS-25 […]