ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/30/2022

Eric Trexler, vice president of sales for global governments at Forcepoint, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company culture as well as how its workforce is built for long-term success in such a competitive market and how recent acquisitions such as Deep Secure drive value for its customers during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the […]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has collaborated with Yext, a New York-headquartered artificial intelligence search company, to pilot a searchable knowledge base user interface for the agency’s open data portal. Yext said Tuesday the user-friendly interface utilizes its AI-powered site search tool and natural language processing to answer users’ complex questions and bring relevant […]

Dignari, a technology services provider, has secured a two-year, $29 million task order to help the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services advance its comprehensive identity, credential and access management environment. The Alexandria, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday the ICAM-Enterprise Services award covers a range of task areas including agile development and program management, public key infrastructure […]

The National Institutes of Health has awarded technology and engineering company ECS a spot on a potential two-year, $49 million contract for a range of financial, technical and administrative services. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract, ECS will conduct business duties, enhance processes and streamline systems in support of eight various focus areas, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company said […]

Five companies have won spots on a five-year, $90 million enterprise sourcing contract with the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The multiple-award contract will include professional advisory and assistance services for AFSOC installations, including geographically separated units and tenants on those bases, the Defense Department said Monday. AFSOC expects contract work to conclude by […]

Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a modification to a previously awarded contract from NASA for the development and demonstration of a waste compaction system for the International Space Station. Work on phase B of the trash compaction and processing system is under a potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $13.8 million, the space agency […]

Paperless Innovations, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Virginia, is urging agencies to consider the potential advantages of implementing a software-as-as-service platform to help reduce procurement cycle time. The company said commercial off-the-shelf SaaS offerings and legislative reforms could offer relief for the government workforce that performs acquisition tasks. Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Joni […]

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of HII, will help the U.S. Navy ensure that combat systems are operational for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) under a $41.6 million contract. The cost-incentive-fee contract provides for fleet industrial efforts to ensure the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer constructed for the service branch is ready to […]

Two Six Technologies has released an open-source mobile application that works to calculate the central point of an in-person meeting while preserving the privacy of user information. Coffeebreak employs a cryptographic method called multiparty calculation to encrypt location data in Android devices of up to 10 meetup participants, Two Six said Monday. The source code […]

Twenty additional Amazon Web Services offerings have received provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The services are now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace and on the company’s Services in Scope by Compliance Program page, according to a blog post published Monday. The services that secured certification from FedRAMP’s Joint […]