ExecutiveBiz News on Video 5/4/2022

Jan Bertsch, a financial executive with over four decades of industry experience, has been named chair of the board of directors of BWX Technologies, where she has served as independent director since 2013. Bertsch’s taking over of the responsibilities of John Fees, who announced his retirement, is effective immediately and she will build on her work […]

Mattermost has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract through the AFWERX program to further develop mission-specific capabilities of a collaboration platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company’s self-hosted, open source collaboration platform enables government agencies to better coordinate team members, mission-critical processes and tools in support of the Advanced Battle Management […]

Forty-one companies took part in a pilot program the Department of Defense and HackerOne facilitated over the past 12 months to help participants identify cybersecurity weaknesses on publicly accessible systems. Volunteers with 348 systems signed up for the Defense Industrial Base-Vulnerability Disclosure Program and 288 security researchers at HackerOne offered 401 actionable reports to asset […]

A joint venture between Pueo Business Solutions and St. Michael’s Inc. has secured a potential $150 million contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command for enterprise professional services. The Pueo-St. Michael’s JV will provide special operations forces deployed within and outside the continental U.S. with services over a five-year ordering period that will conclude on […]

American Systems and U.S. Navy engineers have developed a system designed to aid helicopter pilots during degraded visual environment landings. The company said Tuesday the Low-Speed Precision Control system is a hardware and software platform that works to reduce pilot workload during approaches into DVE conditions such as brownouts. During a demonstration at the Naval […]

Titan Technologies will support the development of the machine-assisted analytic rapid-repository system under a potential $80 million contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency. The company said its work on the DIA MARS Enterprise Agile Development Order of Battle contract is aimed at modernizing the Foundational Military Intelligence mission applications of the Department of Defense and […]

A Magellan Health subsidiary and NeuroFlow have teamed up to implement a digital health and wellbeing management platform for the Department of Defense’s Military and Family Life Counseling program.  Magellan Federal will combine its MFLC support services and NeuroFlow’s self-guided mobile application to help service members and their spouses gain access to behavioral health resources […]

Dana Barnes, senior vice president for U.S. public sector at Palo Alto Networks and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, has shared that the company is continuing its investment in delivering integrated platform of capabilities to government agencies in an effort to help them gain a complete cybersecurity perspective. In an interview with CyberScoop, Barnes said […]

An electronic warfare system Northrop Grumman is developing for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 aircraft fleet will undergo a series of verification tests. A rigorous testing program for the Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite will aim to verify hardware and software before the service branch flies the new technology on its combat jet, Northrop said […]

NASA has selected the U.S.-incorporated subsidiary of Telesat to demonstrate the potential of its satellite-based broadband connectivity network to provide space-to-space relay capabilities to support communications for future near-Earth missions. Telesat Government Solutions said Tuesday it received $30.7 million in funding from the Communications Services Project to co-develop space-based radio frequency terminals that will be […]