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  • Maxar’s Jon Love on Using Cloud, AI Tools to Process Satellite Imagery to Support Government Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar’s Jon Love on Using Cloud, AI Tools to Process Satellite Imagery to Support Government Missions

    Jon Love, vice president of strategic growth at Maxar Technologies, said cloud computing has provided the capability to access and process large volumes of satellite imagery amid the explosion of data driven by the proliferation of sensors. When asked how Maxar helps agencies accelerate the decision-making process, he said during a FedScoop panel discussion aired […] More

  • SandboxAQ Secures Air Force Post-Quantum Cryptography Research Contract; Jen Sovada Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ Secures Air Force Post-Quantum Cryptography Research Contract; Jen Sovada Quoted

    SandboxAQ will carry out a feasibility study to determine how its quantum-resistant security applications could help the U.S. Air Force assess its cryptographic cybersecurity posture under the initial phase of the Small Business Innovation Research contract. The company said Friday it will execute a post-quantum cryptographic inventory analysis and help the service branch implement a […] More

  • ADNET Awarded NASA Space & Earth Science Data Analysis IV Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ADNET Awarded NASA Space & Earth Science Data Analysis IV Contract Extension

    ADNET Systems will continue to support planetary studies, solar and space plasma physics, oceanography, solid earth geographics, geodynamics, atmospheric science and climatology and other science disciplines under a six-month contract extension awarded by NASA through the fourth iteration of the Space and Earth Science Data Analysis program. The potential $36 million extension brings the total […] More

  • Lockheed, NVIDIA to Build Earth Observation Digital Twin Prototype for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, NVIDIA to Build Earth Observation Digital Twin Prototype for NOAA

    Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA will develop a prototype digital twin for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enable the agency to visualize large volumes of geophysical data from multiple sensors to help speed up climate research and environmental monitoring efforts. NVIDIA said Thursday it will offer its Omniverse Nucleus database and collaboration engine and […] More

  • Lockheed, Microsoft to Work on Classified Cloud, AI Capabilities for National Security Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Microsoft to Work on Classified Cloud, AI Capabilities for National Security Missions

    Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have agreed to advance the development of capabilities across four technology areas in support of the Department of Defense’s national security missions. The partnership will pursue new capabilities in classified cloud; artificial intelligence/machine learning, modeling and simulation capabilities; 5G.MIL programs; and digital transformation, Lockheed said Wednesday. For the cloud aspect, Lockheed […] More

  • Google Public Sector, Battelle NEON Seek to Advance Ecological Research With Cloud, Computing Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Public Sector, Battelle NEON Seek to Advance Ecological Research With Cloud, Computing Tools

    Google’s government and education arm and Battelle’s National Ecological Observatory Network have partnered to help advance ecological research by expanding access of scientists and researchers to NEON datasets using cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other computing tools. Battelle-operated NEON is a National Science Foundation-funded observatory that collects spatial and temporal datasets that researchers use […] More

  • TransCore Awarded $1.1B in New Jersey Toll Infrastructure Modernization Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TransCore Awarded $1.1B in New Jersey Toll Infrastructure Modernization Contracts

    TransCore, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, has secured $1.1 billion in contracts from two agencies to help update toll collection systems in New Jersey. The potential 10-year $914 million contract with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority covers the design, installation, maintenance and operation of tolling systems on two of the busiest roads in the U.S., […] More

  • Booz Allen Unveils Tech Innovation Center; Susan Penfield Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Unveils Tech Innovation Center; Susan Penfield Quoted

    Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a new center that seeks to demonstrate emerging technologies that could help address challenges associated with national security, defense and climate resilience. The Helix Center for Innovation is a 9,422-square-foot facility in Washington, D.C., and comes with more than 30 simulations, hands-on activations, tactile demonstrations and immersive environments in emerging […] More

  • Mark Lewis, John 'JV' Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Lewis, John ‘JV’ Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines

    The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […] More

  • Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted

    Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […] More

  • Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract

    Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More