ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/23/2022

Mike Bosco, senior vice president of Army Mission Solutions at Sev1Tech LLC, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the challenges of making the transition from the U.S. military to the public or private sectors as well as the drive for greater collaboration between the government and industry during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with […]

Valiant Integrated Services has secured a five-year, $77 million task order to help the U.S. Navy maintain and operate maritime training devices located at naval air stations in Florida and Washington. The company said Monday it will ensure the operational readiness and availability of simulator and training equipment used at NAS Jacksonville and NAS Whidbey […]

Jack Sears Jr., former vice president of business development and capture at Parsons, has been appointed chief growth officer at Millsboro, Delaware-based cloud and cybersecurity services provider Aquia. He will oversee BD, sales, marketing and go-to-market functions in his new position, Aquia said Monday. Sears holds three decades of work experience at multiple companies that offer […]

Azimuth and UES have won positions on a potential eight-year, $40 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide basic and applied research support and development services across several core technology areas. The contractors will support the Air Force Research Laboratory in the areas of structural materials and applications; systems support; new and emerging […]

A survey by Riverbed Technology and Swish has found that 52 percent of federal information technology employees said they are worried their on-premises networks and legacy IT systems will face difficulty in delivering good user experiences as more workers transition from a remote set-up to on-site work. Research firm Market Connections conducted a survey of […]

Applied Research Associates will conduct research and development work for the U.S. Navy on non-deadly weapon technologies under a five-year, $48 million contract. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Littleton, Colorado-headquartered company will provide workforce, equipment, materials, oversight and other requirements to perform R&D support services, the Department of Defense said Monday. Work will be conducted […]

L3Harris Technologies is part of a Leidos-led team that will develop a medium unmanned undersea vehicle for the U.S. Navy under a potential $358 million contract awarded in July. Leidos said Monday the MUUV platform will be designed to help the service branch perform oceanographic sensing, data collection and mine countermeasures operations. Rosemary Chapdelaine, president […]

An industry team led by Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space-focused business has wrapped up a system definition review with NASA for a commercial space station envisioned for low-Earth orbit operations. The companies said Monday the design of Orbital Reef is now being developed following the completion of SDR, which examined the proposed space […]

Textron’s aviation business handed a pair of Beechcraft King Air 260 vehicles over to the U.S. Forest Service for use in wildfire mapping operations. The company said Thursday it equipped the two aircraft units with the agency’s legacy sensors and Overwatch Imaging‘s TK-9 Earthwatch infrared sensing technology to help users map wildfires when operating at […]

Collins Aerospace demonstrated flight readiness and system performance of its multispectral sensor technology for an unnamed international client during a recent test that involved an F-16 jet. The event marked the initial flight trial of MS-110 reconnaissance pod, which is designed to collect imagery and facilitate target detection, Collins Aerospace said Monday. The Raytheon Technologies business […]