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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
is an Executive Mosaic staff writer covering broad topics in the federal government contracting industry.
A Textron subsidiary demonstrated the potential of a multicopter unmanned aircraft to interoperate with a ground-based radar system in airspace navigation during a recent detect-and-avoid flight demonstration in Texas. The Bell Autonomous Pod Transport completed a mission to fly beyond visual line of sight above a specialized test environment as part of NASA’s Systems Integration […] More
A federal laboratory within the Department of Homeland Security has begun to request information on the availability of a system that will work to measure radiation levels when emergency response personnel perform missions. The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory is conducting market research into mobile radiation detection technology under NUSTL’s System Assessment and Validation for […] More
Red 6 has received a Tactical Funding Increase contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue integrating its augmented reality pilot training technology into the service branch’s T-38 Talon trainer jets. The Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System is designed to generate synthetic flying units that pilots can train against and interact with while in the […] More
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Kymeta have teamed up to build a software-defined remote terminal that can communicate with satellites in low-, medium-Earth and geosynchronous orbits. The envisioned Digitally-Transformed Remote Terminal will combine a Kratos OpensSpace ground system-based universal customer premise equipment with a Kymeta electronically steered antenna to enable various multi-beam and multi-band […] More
Isotropic Systems recently completed tests for its multi-link antenna and demonstrated its capability to simultaneously connect satellites in two different orbits. The space technology company said Tuesday its satellite communications terminal established live connections with SES medium-Earth and geosynchronous-Earth orbit satellites and showcased satellite-to-satellite transitions at the U.S. Army proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland. According […] More
A General Atomics technology designed to terminate errant hypersonic missiles was part of a joint U.S. -Army-Navy flight test event that took place in Wallops Island, Virginia. The company said Tuesday autonomous flight termination units, produced by General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business, work to instruct a hypersonic vehicle to self-destruct if it deviates from a […] More
Valid Eval, an online evaluation software-as-a-service provider, has received a task order to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in assessing and selecting sources of directed energy systems. Under the task, the company said Tuesday it will implement large-scale evaluation services to help traditional source selection technical evaluators within AFRL’s Directed Energy Technology Experimentation […] More
Raytheon Technologies‘ research and development arm has helped the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity create a tool to help English-only speakers retrieve and understand foreign content. The company said Monday Raytheon BBN built and demonstrated its cross-language information retrieval system over a four-year period as part of IARPA’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval for Information […] More
Leidos has won a $22.6 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a system for carrier strike group personnel to collaborate on navigation and tactical mission planning tasks. The company will aim to create a planning platform with analytics, common widgets and decision support tools under the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and […] More
KBR has won a recompete contract to provide health and medical services to the astronauts of the European Space Agency over three-and-a-half years. The company said Monday it has supported the agency for more than two decades in the space medicine discipline that includes care administration, behavioral and mental health, nutrition, fitness and rehabilitation activities. […] More
Kathryn Sullivan and Steve Smith, two top U.S. science officials and former astronauts, have joined the advisory board of weather and climate security technology developer Tomorrow.io. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company said Friday the two advisers will work to support its business strategy that includes going public on Nasdaq and launching radar-equipped satellites in 2022. Sullivan […] More
Dell Technologies‘ federal systems business has secured a $93.03 million U.S. Army contract to maintain the service branch’s software used for operating virtual computers. The firm-fixed-price contract provides for software maintenance to support the VMWare virtualization licenses already purchased by the Army, the Department of Defense said Friday. Dell Federal Systems, the only bidder to […] More
