ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/2/2022

Christopher Worley, vice president of DoD Earth Intelligence Programs for Maxar, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent growth initiatives as well as the critical importance of its culture in such a competitive market that is constantly improving how we think about the greater innovation challenges of today during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read […]

Tetra Tech has won a five-year, $100 million contract from the Environmental Protection Agency to analyze the effects of global climate change on human health and ecosystems. The company said Thursday it will aim to produce models of different climate scenarios and interactive geographic information system displays under the single-award contract. EPA also tasked the […]

Semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest approximately $15 billion in the construction of a new memory manufacturing fab near the company’s research and development center in Boise, Idaho. The manufacturing plant will be the first facility of its kind to be built in the U.S. in 20 years and will create more than 17,000 new […]

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, a previous Wash100 Award winner, has joined the board of directors of Phase Four, a developer of radio frequency thrusters for satellite propulsion. Bridenstine, former congressman from Oklahoma, will bring to the role his leadership experience at NASA and help the company advance space sustainability through its electric propulsion systems […]

Boeing has launched two projects as part of the Hypersonics Challenge introduced by the Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT. The company will work with Powdermet on the first project that seeks to demonstrate the production of metal matrix composites for hypersonic vehicle demonstrators, LIFT said Thursday. Boeing will team up […]

Sarah Kim, chief marketing officer of Iron Bow Technologies, was added to the Federal Partner Advisory Board of Dell Technologies. The Herndon, Virginia-based technology company said Thursday Kim takes on the role at Dell with close to 20 years of government technology-focused experience across federal, state, local, education and health care markets. Federal PAB works […]

Booz Allen Hamilton has completed the sale of its Middle East- and North Africa-focused business to management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. The financial details of the transaction were not made public. As a result of the closed acquisition agreement, the Booz Allen MENA team will be added to Oliver Wyman’s United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia offices, […]

Noblis has received a U.S. patent for a machine learning-based method generating models that can imitate different security checkpoint setups and show how each configuration responds to various kinds of threat.  The Reston, Virginia-based nonprofit organization said Thursday its iterative modeling system employs algorithms based on concepts from rule-based adversarial games. Noblis researchers particularly utilized chess […]

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has chosen Ramco Systems to provide a software platform for maintenance, repair and overhaul activities in line with the former’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian aircraft sustainment program. Ramco will use its enterprise resource planning software to meet the systems’ MRO requirements, including line, component, engine, hangar and aftermarket services, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems said […]

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute ChargePoint‘s electric vehicle charging technology portfolio through a reseller partnership network and government procurement contracts. The ChargePoint as a Service offering is meant to help government customers manage station operations, pricing and system updates, Carahsoft said Thursday. CPaaS includes charging reservation, notification and automated fund transfer features for EV […]