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  • Planet Federal Secures NRO Contract Extension for Satellite Data Access; Robbie Schingler Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet Federal Secures NRO Contract Extension for Satellite Data Access; Robbie Schingler Quoted

    Planet Labs‘ federal subsidiary has received a contract extension from the National Reconnaissance Office for continued and expanded access to its daily and unclassified satellite imaging data made available via the government’s Commercial GEOINT Integration architecture. The award provides for the addition of archived imageries dating back to 2009 and high and medium-resolution data covering […] More

  • Deloitte, Ava Labs Team Up to Support FEMA Reimbursement Applications With Blockchain Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, Ava Labs Team Up to Support FEMA Reimbursement Applications With Blockchain Platform

    Deloitte has partnered with blockchain firm Ava Labs to offer a decentralized cloud-based platform intended to help gather, process and authenticate state and local governments’ applications for federal emergency funding. The new Close As You Go platform will use blockchain technology to store the documents and records the Federal Emergency Management System needed to distribute […] More

  • Lockheed Holds Flight Test Series for PAC-3 Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Holds Flight Test Series for PAC-3 Missiles

    Lockheed Martin has achieved several major milestones for the U.S. Army’s modernized missile interceptor during a flight test series over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles worked together with the Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System for the first time and completed its […] More

  • Northrop Books $64M Army Contract for Ammunitions Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Books $64M Army Contract for Ammunitions Procurement

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $63.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide the military service branch with ammunition through Dec. 29, 2023. The company will receive fiscal 2020, 2021 and 2022 ammunition procurement funds from the Army to perform work in various locations across the U.S. and Germany, the Department of Defense […] More

  • Noblis VP Gary Sladic to Succeed Retiring Mark Simione as Chief Financial Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis VP Gary Sladic to Succeed Retiring Mark Simione as Chief Financial Officer

    Gary Sladic, vice president of finance and accounting at Noblis, was appointed as deputy chief financial officer who will eventually assume the CFO role in July 2022 when longtime company executive Mark Simione, currently its senior vice president, chief financial and administrative officer and treasurer, retires. The company said Monday Sladic brings to the deputy […] More

  • Dinocrates Names Ardian Technologies as Pilot Partner Under Business Accelerator Initiative; Tom Prokop Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dinocrates Names Ardian Technologies as Pilot Partner Under Business Accelerator Initiative; Tom Prokop Quoted

    Dinocrates Group has initiated an accelerator program in support of its market expansion efforts and named Ardian Technologies as the pilot partner. The strategy and technology advisory company said Friday the initiative will help deliver innovative technologies to its clients and expand its market share through joint capability development with its partners as part of […] More

  • Northrop Reaches Milestone on Future Ballistic Missile Motor Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Reaches Milestone on Future Ballistic Missile Motor Development

    Northrop Grumman completed in August the first insulation and case wind processes of a first-stage solid rocket motor for the U.S. Air Force’s future intercontinental ballistic missile. The company said Friday it applied insulation and composite outer casing across the three-stage Ground Based Strategic Deterrent’s motor to achieve the manufacturing milestone. The insulation will help […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy Funding to Support Arleigh Burke-Class Shipbuilding Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Receives Navy Funding to Support Arleigh Burke-Class Shipbuilding Efforts

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received $20 million in cost modification award from the U.S. Navy to cover capital expenditure initiatives for industrial base efforts that support the development of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The award modifies HII’s existing DDG 51 development contract to shipbuilding supplier activities aimed at ensuring the readiness of the Navy’s fleet, the […] More

  • Telos to Offer Cybersecurity Tech to Government Clients via DLT Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Offer Cybersecurity Tech to Government Clients via DLT Contracts

    Telos has entered into a new agreement for marketing its cybersecurity offerings to U.S. government clients through contract vehicles held by Tech Data subsidiary DLT Solutions in addition to its channel ecosystem. Telos said Wednesday the distribution agreement expands the reach of its cyber, cloud and enterprise security technologies across the federal, state, local and […] More

  • Collins Aerospace Conducts Directional Comm Tech Demo Under DARPA Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace Conducts Directional Comm Tech Demo Under DARPA Project

    Collins Aerospace has showcased to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency a company system that uses 5G technology to support high-throughput communications. The system, developed through DARPA’s Pheme project, worked to facilitate video and data transfer between airborne and ground radios with minimal detection during a recent demonstration, the Raytheon Technologies unit said Tuesday. Collins […] More

  • UK Taps Leidos for $94M GEOINT Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Taps Leidos for $94M GEOINT Modernization Effort

    Leidos has received a potential four-year, $93.98 million contract from the U.K. defense ministry to help in modernizing British geospatial intelligence capabilities as part of the Picasso capability program. The company said Wednesday it will work to enhance how Picasso delivers geographical information to the U.K. military and partners by updating the agency’s GEOINT infrastructure, […] More