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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.
Jacobs has conducted engineering, manufacturing and testing efforts in support of the assemblies equipped on a new NASA telescope for collecting X-rays of neutron stars, stellar and supermassive black holes and other objects. The company said Monday it supplied components of the Mirror Module Assemblies that the space agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer uses to […] More
ManTech International has closed its purchase of Technical and Management Assistance Corp., a Columbia, Maryland-based provider of system engineering, software engineering and information technology services in support of intelligence community customers. Kevin Phillips, chairman, CEO and president of ManTech and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, said in a statement published Monday the acquisition is aimed […] More
ExecutiveBiz featured Rich Jacques, corporate officer and vice president of intelligence and law enforcement at Noblis, in an Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday on its sister publication, ExecutiveGov. He talked about reaching a three-year milestone in his current role at Noblis, the emerging technologies’ impact on law enforcement operations, cybersecurity’s influence at the state and […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — Leidos will provide support services for the nationwide safety efforts of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under a potential $61.5 million Priority Services Scientific, Engineering and Technical Assistance prime contract, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 15. Roy Stevens, president of intelligence group at Leidos, said the company will […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2021 — ManTech International has completed its $350 million cash acquisition of digital and systems engineering company Gryphon Technologies from private equity firm AE Industrial Partners and added new programs and professionals to its defense business, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 13. “The addition is highly complementary and builds upon our […] More
USS Jack H. Lucas, a Huntington Ingalls Industries-built guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy, started its combat system testing more than half a year after it was launched from the shipbuilder’s location in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The destroyer being integrated with AN/SPY-6(V)1 air and missile defense radar from a Raytheon Technologies business recorded Aegis system […] More
Maxar Technologies has booked over $100 million in three agreements that extend the company’s work of delivering satellite imagery to international defense and intelligence customers. The company said Wednesday its Direct Access Program will continue to enable the unnamed clients to download 30 cm-class data from Maxar’s constellation of Earth imaging satellites to their ground […] More
A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary will prototype an electro-optical infrared weather system and demonstrate its operational data delivery ability under a $67 million contract from the U.S. Space Force. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will build a satellite prototype in an effort to help Space Systems Command deliver cloud characterization and weather imagery observations to warfighters, the […] More
Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has opened a new center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it plans to accommodate additional software, mechanical and electrical engineers as part of the company’s expansion efforts. The Cambridge Innovation Center will have a stand-up laboratory, virtual reality collaboration area and space for up to 60 engineers who will be based in […] More
Cognosante was tasked with the implementation and maintenance of a cloud-hosted electronic faxing service at the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of a $110 million award under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation acquisition vehicle. The company said Tuesday having Enterprise Cloud Fax services across the VA is aimed at enhancing the department’s […] More
Tom Arseneault, CEO of BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm, has expressed certainty over the military adding electronic vehicles to its fleet as the Biden administration focuses on clean energy initiatives, including the use of hybrid-electric vehicles to lessen carbon emissions and help address climate change, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Speaking at a recent forum, the […] More
Michael Saylor, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, has expressed belief that bitcoin is bound to go up and cited technology adoption and inflation as two of the drivers of the price increase. In a Yahoo Finance Live interview, Saylor estimated the U.S. monetary inflation rate to fall between 15 to 20 percent in the next […] More
