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Christine Thropp

oversees day-to-day content production for ExecutiveBiz, a publication under Executive Mosaic's media group covering government contracting industry news. She also writes about executive movements and commentaries, M&A activities, contract awards and technology and service offerings of medium-sized businesses and other GovCon companies. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities with EBiz, Thropp produced daily competitive intelligence briefings for the company's GovCon customers.

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  • L3Harris, Inmarsat & Partners Demo Remote Network Supporting JADC2 Concept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris, Inmarsat & Partners Demo Remote Network Supporting JADC2 Concept

    L3Harris Technologies, Inmarsat‘s U.S. business arm and industry partners have showcased remote network operations at a Special Operations Forces-focused event to support the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative of the military. Inmarsat said Monday the demonstration for satellite communications connectivity featured the company employing its Global Xpress worldwide wideband service and L3Harris using airborne […] More

  • SDV International Receives CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for IT Solutions Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SDV International Receives CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for IT Solutions Group

    SDV International has achieved Maturity Level 3 appraisal for its IT Solutions Group under ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program that underscored the company’s established and enhanced standard processes. The Alexandria, Virginia-based consultant said the CMMI ML3 appraisal is an indicator of a “well characterized and understood” set of organizational procedures. CMMI, meanwhile, is an […] More

  • Q&A With V2X CEO Chuck Prow Tackles Vectrus-Vertex Merger Rationale - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Q&A With V2X CEO Chuck Prow Tackles Vectrus-Vertex Merger Rationale

    Chuck Prow, CEO of V2X and an eight-time Wash100 Award recipient, was featured in a recent Q&A with GovCon Wire, the sister publication of ExecutiveBiz. He talked about the early discussions he had with American Industrial Partners leadership on the all-stock merger between Vectrus and Vertex as well as the reasons for the combination of […] More

  • IARPA Selects BlackSky Platform to Support Space-Based Imagery Analysis; Patrick O’Neil Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Selects BlackSky Platform to Support Space-Based Imagery Analysis; Patrick O’Neil Quoted

    BlackSky Technology has secured a $4.4 million phase two award to provide the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity with a machine learning platform created for a multiyear initiative for space-based imagery analysis. The company said Thursday its machine learning operations framework will be used to further support IARPA’s Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique Program, which […] More

  • Shared Spectrum Company Lands Post on Air Force's $950M JADC2 Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shared Spectrum Company Lands Post on Air Force’s $950M JADC2 Tech Contract

    Shared Spectrum Company has secured a spot on a potential $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force for system development and operation activities in support of a Department of Defense battlefield strategy. The Vienna, Virginia-based spectrum intelligence technology developer said it will work on capability maturation and demonstration to help enable DOD’s Joint […] More

  • Integral Consulting Rebrands to Integral Federal; Wayne Wilkinson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Integral Consulting Rebrands to Integral Federal; Wayne Wilkinson Quoted

    Integral Consulting has renamed as Integral Federal to underscore its focus on providing government customers with information technology offerings designed to support their national security missions. The company said Tuesday its rebranding coincided with the promotion of Wayne Wilkinson from chief operating officer to president and CEO, responsible for driving its growth initiatives. Wilkinson has […] More

  • TBP&JJ Worldwide Services JV Launches Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TBP&JJ Worldwide Services JV Launches Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program

    Leesburg, Virginia-based real estate and facilities services company The Building People has formed a joint venture with Austin, Texas-headquartered defense and government contractor J&J Worldwide Services under the Mentor-Protege Program of the Small Business Administration. In a joint statement, the companies said TBP&JJ Worldwide Services will market technical, analytic and management services as well as […] More

  • Northrop to Construct ROOSTER Satellite Bus for Space Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Construct ROOSTER Satellite Bus for Space Force

    Northrop Grumman has received a $22.1 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to provide the service branch with a satellite bus that will be used on its Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring program. The ROOSTER space vehicle is envisioned to be capable of supporting future refueling activities in a geostationary orbit, the Department […] More

  • Rocket Lab Unveils Responsive Space Program for Satellite Operators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab Unveils Responsive Space Program for Satellite Operators

    Rocket Lab USA has unveiled a program meant to provide operators of commercial and government satellites with access to the company’s launch capability and spacecraft development and support services. The Responsive Space Program will enable Rocket Lab to have direct collaboration with satellite operators on rapid call-up launch and operations as well as design, build […] More

  • Raytheon Picks C3 AI App Platform for TITAN Ground Station Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks C3 AI App Platform for TITAN Ground Station Prototype

    C3 AI will provide Raytheon Technologies with next generation artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities for use on the latter’s proposed tactical ground station prototype under a U.S. Army program. The enterprise AI software company said Wednesday the C3 AI Application Platform will deliver AI/ML model operations to Raytheon’s offering for the Tactical Intelligence Targeting […] More