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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.
BAE Systems has started moving its automated flight planning service to the cloud in line with the transformation objectives of the U.S. Air Force, which employs the system for agile airspace planning and mission management efforts. Migrating the Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service to Cloud One is aimed at boosting the operational availability […] More
Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, was appointed to the advisory board of Exovera, where he will contribute his DevSecOps and zero trust expertise to help government customers. The Vienna, Virginia-based software developer said Wednesday Chaillan, in his previous CSO role, provided assistance to the Department of […] More
Viasat has opened a new office near the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground installation to expand its presence in Harford County, Maryland, and further support the military’s network transformation efforts. The company said Wednesday the office will house employees of its government systems business developing satellite communication and networking capabilities for defense customers. A laboratory […] More
Bryan Construction has won a $65.2 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for construction work at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota over a two-year period. Army Corps of Engineers selected the Colorado contractor to build a facility at the AFB for a formal training unit or aircraft maintenance unit, the Department of […] More
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will provide its software-defined satellite ground system for use in support of operating Intelsat’s ground and space systems to help deliver network services to customers. The OpenSpace Platform of Kratos is eyed to enable deployment of carrier-grade services to Intelsat clients in minutes rather than the usual weeks-long duration, the […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space business and a Spirit AeroSystems subsidiary have teamed up to boost the production of cargo modules for a space transport vehicle aimed at supporting NASA resupply missions. Sierra Space said Tuesday it will work with Spirit Defense & Space on Shooting Star cargo module system design, fabrication, assembly, integration and test […] More
ICF has partnered with Google‘s cloud business in an effort to provide federal agencies and other public sector customers with expanded cloud and analytics services in support of their digital transformation initiatives. The firm said Tuesday new Google Cloud capabilities will be paired with ICF’s expertise in public sector domain and technology consulting to help […] More
NASA is seeking offers to provide two of its offices with enterprise multimedia and integrated technical services needed to consolidate information technology-based communications. In a request for proposal published Tuesday on SAM.gov, NASA said its Office of Chief Information Technology and Office of Communications look to employ a single provider of digital multimedia and technical […] More
NASA has tapped Ball Aerospace and Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business to study the ocean color instrument for a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth observation satellite system. Each was awarded an approximately $5.2 million contract that covers the twenty-month Phase A Study under the Geostationary Extended Observations Program of NOAA, the space […] More
United Semiconductors, a New York-based small business that earlier received research sponsorship from the Air Force Research Laboratory, was awarded a spot on a three-year, $21 million contract from NASA for in-space manufacturing efforts. AFRL said Thursday United Semiconductors was tasked to create advanced materials or technologies under microgravity conditions to expand semiconductor crystal size […] More
Peraton has received a $51.8 million bridge contract from the Defense Health Agency to continue managing its Global Service Center while optimizing the performance of its infrastructure over a one-year period. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract will provide for non-personal services in support of the Defense Health Agency Global Service Center until May 14, 2023, to […] More
Five companies have won in the preliminary event of the 5G Challenge hosted by the Department of Defense and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. The initial stage of the multi-level prize competition was focused on Radio Access Network subsystem interoperability, DOD said Wednesday. Radisys Corp., Signal System Management, Capgemini Engineering, […] More
