ExecutiveBiz News on Video 5/5/2022

Jimmy Norcross, senior vice president of Agile Digital Solutions for CACI, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the challenges of attracting and retaining top talent in the federal industry as well as the discussions about the hurdles of innovation that are based away from the technical side. In addition, Norcross discussed how CACI’s customers are working to improve their government […]

The Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT have awarded a Hypersonics Challenge project to Raytheon Technologies. Raytheon will study how modeling and simulation could help accelerate the development of high-temperature materials for hypersonic systems, LIFT said Wednesday. Andreas Roelofs, vice president of research at Raytheon and director of the Raytheon Technologies […]

In the Department of Defense’s near future, John Sherman, the department’s chief information officer and acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, said multiple modernization efforts will ideally converge to fully bring the DOD into the digital age and help ensure the country’s technical advantage. “In a few years, our software modernization efforts will fully continue […]

Martin Defense Group has secured a potential nine-year, $54.4 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to support the development of unmanned surface vessels for mobility enhancement. The contractor will work on a USVME platform meant to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with capabilities to conduct unmanned support and resupply activities, the Department of […]

Ameresco‘s federal group has received a contract to install a battery energy storage system on the U.S. Army’s solar field at Fort Detrick in Maryland. The company said Wednesday it will work with the Defense Logistics Agency’s energy organization to carry out the 6 megawatt BESS deployment project and estimates the new system will help […]

In-Q-Tel has agreed to invest in Weaveworks to help the software company further develop its application delivery and security automation platform for use in U.S. intelligence and defense missions. Weaveworks seeks to bring its technology to the government sector to help agencies manage and secure applications in on-premise or cloud computing environments, the company said […]

Iteris was awarded a Federal Highway Administration task order to assess the architecture and standards environment and identify issues that could affect multimodal and accessible travel initiative. The company said Wednesday it will continue providing mobility consulting services as part of a potential five-year, $19.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with the latest award marking the third […]

The Department of Energy has tapped Cornelis Networks to help develop next generation networking technologies that are envisioned to support future high performance computing systems at the laboratories of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The company was awarded an $18 million collaborative research and development contract for the Next-Generation HPC Network effort in support of […]

Lockheed Martin has completed the production of the first AN/TPY-4 radar, a multimission system that can detect existing and emerging threats and operate in contested radio frequency environments. TPY-4 is a software-defined radar system that is available in transportable and fixed variants and complies with open software, hardware and interface standards to facilitate integration, Lockheed […]

BAE Systems has developed a new head-up display to provide commercial and military aircraft pilots with a lightweight and compact technology for flight situational awareness. The recently unveiled LiteWave platform is powered by the company-patented waveguide technology, allows for digital display adjustment to align with the pilot’s flying position and has the size of a […]