ExecutiveBiz News on Video 4/27/2022

With the April 30th deadline approaching, the government contracting (GovCon) community has only a few days left to cast their TEN votes in the 2022 Wash100 Vote Standings to recognize the most significant federal leaders across our sector as well as in industry and our military branches.  This is your last chance to participate in the […]

ICF was tapped by the Federal Highway Administration to help modernize the national transportation system under a potential $94 million blanket purchase agreement. The consulting services company, along with other awardees of the five-year recompete BPA, will provide FHWA with technical assistance and other services in support of its development of the next generation system […]

Walsh Group‘s U.S. federal business arm has secured a potential $206 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hangar at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina for maintenance work on the F-35B Lightning II aircraft. Chicago-based Walsh Federal will construct a two-story, low-rise aircraft maintenance hangar that will include a […]

The Department of the Air Force has selected the Boeing-built E-7 Wedgetail aircraft to replace part of its fleet of E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system planes, the service reported Tuesday. The military branch said the selection was based on market research and that the E-7 Wedgetail platform could meet the Department of Defense’s […]

Textron‘s Bell subsidiary has teamed up with Sierra Nevada Corp. to integrate an open architecture-based mission system into the Bell 360 Invictus offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack and Reconnaissance Aircraft competition. SNC will provide integration support to the Modular Open Systems Approach that will serve as the digital backbone of Team Invictus’ proposed […]

Oshkosh has invested in Robotic Research to advance innovation and expand autonomous capabilities. The two companies started collaboration on autonomy initiatives for the Department of Defense in 2017 and Oshkosh said Tuesday the partnership with Robotic Research will further build up its work on autonomous vehicles and related systems that could be used to support […]

Intel‘s federal business arm has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop simulation platforms for off-road autonomous combat vehicles. The company said Tuesday Intel Labs will collaborate with the Computer Vision Center Barcelona and the University of Texas at Austin on the creation of next-generation tools envisioned to mimic off-road […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency has published a Security Technical Implementation Guide for a network virtualization and security product from VMware to the Department of Defense’s cyber exchange database. Through consultation of the installation rules, security guidelines and controls listed in the STIG, VMware NSX will be usable across the DOD and in other government departments, […]

BAE Systems has partnered with Hadean to identify opportunities where the former’s military training expertise could be applied to the distributed computing company’s unified platform. The collaboration looks to enable warfighters to train on a synthetic environment for air, land, sea, space and cyber operations for enhanced decision support and situational awareness, BAE said Tuesday. […]

The U.S. Navy is soliciting information on industry capabilities that could support a program meant to develop a clandestine tactical mining platform with an expendable unmanned underwater vehicle that could be torpedo-launched from the service’s submarines to meet future submarine payload requirements. The Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset program will include the development of […]