ExecutiveBiz News on Video 6/3/2022

Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, said the company is considering acquiring domestic businesses that develop critical technologies, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. He told the publication that Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary is evaluating potential acquisition opportunities as part of expansion efforts and working to update the resolution of its night vision […]

NASA has indicated its intent to award SpaceX a contract modification to fly an additional five crewed missions as the agency seeks to ensure the availability of human transportation services to the International Space Station. The agency said Wednesday that SpaceX, which is currently the only company that secured certification under the Commercial Crew Transportation […]

Carahsoft Technology will provide public sector clients access to Rescale’s cloud-based computational engineering and artificial intelligence platforms through its contract vehicles and reseller partners. Rescale said Thursday its platform has over 900 pre-integrated software applications and helps automate the use of AI in simulations and computational engineering to enable public and private sector customers to […]

Black Cape has received a potential $49 million contract to develop a system for the U.S. Special Operations Command to manage, process, analyze and visualize data. The company will help SOCOM create the tool suite with common user interfaces under the Platform Agnostic Data Storage Infrastructure program, the Department of Defense said Friday. SOCOM initially […]

BAE Systems has started moving its automated flight planning service to the cloud in line with the transformation objectives of the U.S. Air Force, which employs the system for agile airspace planning and mission management efforts. Migrating the Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service to Cloud One is aimed at boosting the operational availability […]

Atlas North America has secured a potential five-year, $35.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain a remotely operated vehicle used to identify and destroy naval mines. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will conduct depot-level maintenance of the service branch’s Seafox Mine Neutralization System under the firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract. The non-competitive […]

OMV Medical has rebranded as Provizor Federal and adopted a new logo to reflect the company’s work as a health care staffing and management services provider to government clients. Provizor said Tuesday the new brand name originated from the Latin word “provisus,” which means “one that provides,” and the updated logo design features a red cross to […]

Microsoft and Tenable have expanded their collaboration to help U.S. federal agencies accelerate the detection, investigation and remediation of cybersecurity threats in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order signed in May 2021. The extended partnership will facilitate the integration of Tenable.io with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Cloud platforms to “support vulnerability assessments for hybrid […]

Consulting services firm Guidehouse has received recognition from the State Department for its data analytics efforts within the department. The Data for Diplomacy award is a new distinction given to select organizations out of 200 total submitted businesses. Personnel from Guidehouse’s national security and advanced solutions divisions were bestowed with the group award, the Washington, D.C.-based company […]