ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/28/2022

The Professional Services Council has welcomed the passage of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act and an omnibus spending bill in Congress and identified several provisions in the measures that could have a potential impact on the federal contracting sector. PSC said Tuesday the NDAA and the Consolidated Appropriations Act contain provisions that […]

Kevin Steen, CEO of OneWeb Technologies, said there is an increased demand from the U.S. government for low-Earth orbit constellations to provide satellite communications capabilities in support of a range of military and civilian applications. In a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions‘ Constellations podcast, Steen said LEO constellations provide low latency broadband services to support […]

Raytheon Technologies has secured a $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver hardware upgrades to the Patriot air and missile defense system and provide the latest version of the Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems to South Korea.  Army Contracting Command received one bid for the fixed-price incentive contract via the internet and obligated contract […]

Fincantieri CEO Pierroberto Folgiero said the Italian company’s Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin plans to apply the processes used to construct luxury cruise ships in Italy as it builds Constellation-class guided-missile frigates for the U.S. Navy, Defense News reported Tuesday. “We aim to use more preconstruction on land at Marinette, which means building modules before […]

The Department of Agriculture selected Tantus Technologies to provide cybersecurity support to the information assurance branch of its Farm Production and Conservation arm. The agency said Thursday the contract covers information technology security compliance support, assessment and authorization documentation analysis for the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Risk Management Agency. It […]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona will support TriWest Healthcare Alliance in delivering Tricare health care services to service personnel, retirees and their families across 26 states in the West region under a contract with the Department of Defense. TriWest won a $65.1 billion managed care support contract from the Defense Health Agency for the […]

The Defense Innovation Unit issued a commercial solutions opening for technologies that can reduce the carbon footprint of space and water heating systems in the Department of Defense’s buildings. DIU said it is looking to prototype cost-effective innovations that can improve on air-source heat pumps and HP water heaters and are usable in workspaces, barracks […]

Patricia Kitchen, a former account and capture executive at Peraton, has been appointed as director of capture and business development at the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered company, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Kitchen took on the new position more than a year after joining Peraton. Earlier, she spent over six years at Northrop Grumman, where […]