ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/27/2021

The U.S. Army has awarded a five-year, $138.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to IBM for the delivery of information technology services in support of the military’s technology service provider. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company will deploy IT services on behalf of the Army’s Product Director Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise System and Services, the Department of Defense […]

A joint venture between Boeing and Textron’s Bell subsidiary will begin to make nacelle improvements to the first CV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts to enhance the tiltrotor’s readiness and reduce repair time. Bell Boeing will perform nacelle modifications on the CV-22 fleet under a potential $81 million contract […]

The 2021 Gauge Report released by Unanet and CohnReznick has highlighted increased competition, cybersecurity, hybrid work and supply chain disruptions as some of the challenges facing government contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unanet and CohnReznick said Thursday they polled more than 1,400 GovCon representatives between January and May and found that respondents indicated that increased […]

Skypersonic, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings and a confined space drone technology provider, has received a five-year contract with NASA to supply drone and rover hardware, software and support for the agency’s Simulated Mars mission. Red Cat said Monday Skypersonic’s Dronebox real-time transoceanic remote piloting platform will command the piloting of the drones and […]

Dewberry has secured a shoreline mapping task order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide aircraft services for the Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum project. The professional services firm said the aircraft trips will enable NOAA to collect gravity data, which would be used in determining the height of […]

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office of the Department of Defense have agreed to an F-35 production rebaseline to address the aircraft shortfall caused by COVID-19 and ensure continued manufacturing stability. Under the agreement, Lockheed is anticipating the delivery of up to 139 aircraft this year, 153 aircraft in 2022 and 156 aircraft […]

United Launch Alliance will lift off a new satellite for an existing program that helps NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey observe changes on planet Earth’s land. The company said Saturday its Atlas V 401 rocket will launch on Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base with the Landsat 9 satellite and CubeSats deployed from the […]

Intel has broken ground on its two new $20 billion chip factories at its Ocotillo campus in Arizona as part of an effort to meet the growing demand for semiconductors. The factories will be called Fab 52 and Fab 62 and will produce various advanced process technologies, such as the upcoming Intel 20A architecture, once […]

The CERBERUS and Dynamo teams emerged as winners of the two competitions of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Subterranean Challenge, bagging $2 million and $750,000, respectively. CERBERUS, or the CollaborativE walking & flying RoBots for autonomous ExploRation in Underground Settings, landed the top spot on the systems competition where teams demonstrated technologies for mapping […]

Dana Linnet, formerly a career foreign service officer at the State Department, has been named general manager and vice president for the public sector business at San Francisco-based translation company Lilt. She will be responsible for bringing Lilt’s modern language service and technology offerings to the government market, the company said Thursday. “As a linguist, […]