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Textron‘s Airborne Tactical Advantage Company subsidiary has secured a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide Mirage F1 aircraft to conduct chase flight services in support of the F-35 program. Three Mirage F1 planes will be used to support F-35 aircraft with flight operations set to begin late this year or early 2023 at the […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a 51,000-square-foot facility in Camden, Arkansas, that consolidates multiple activities involved in producing solid rocket motors. The company said Wednesday it will make propulsion systems in the new building to power the updated version of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 weapon system, which Lockheed Martin makes for defense customers. Eileen Drake, president and […] More
Jim Ford, a 20-year U.S. Navy intelligence officer veteran and former director at Microsoft‘s federal business, has been appointed to serve in the dual role of president and chief strategy officer at Semantic AI. The newly hired executive will head functions related to business development, product strategy, industry offerings, delivery and customer experience, Semantic AI said Thursday. Ford brings […] More
Visionist, a Columbia, Maryland-based software company, has received a four-year, $70 million prime contract from the Department of Defense to upgrade a voice communication system used for intelligence missions. More than 30 technical personnel will be tasked to perform voice-based processing application development and additional technical services are expected to occur through 2024, the company said […] More
Planned Systems International has secured a $91.7 million recompete contract to continue operating, maintaining and developing the command and control mission systems of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The single-award task order will extend PSI’s technical services in support of AFSOC’s mission and priorities including content management, cloud migration as well as research, development, […] More
The U.S. Agency for International Development has increased the ceiling value of a humanitarian assistance blanket purchase agreement with PM Consulting Group to $100 million. Under the five-year BPA, the company supports USAID and partner countries in conducting humanitarian response efforts throughout the Middle East North Africa region, PMCG said Tuesday. PMCG noted it will […] More
Kim Irving, an information technology and cybersecurity business development professional with over 25 years of industry experience, has been appointed to lead the federal practice at cybersecurity company Ascent Solutions. As Ascent Federal’s general manager, Irving aims to help the business take cyber services to the government sector and support federal clients in technology development and […] More
Veraxx Engineering, a flight training-focused company, has received a multiyear, $40.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize the Marine Corps’ aviation training systems and devices. The company will complete a baseline version of the Marine Corps Tactical Environment for four USMC aircraft wings and integrate the TEn system into the service branch’s aviation training platforms, […] More
David Anderson, former vice president of processing systems at SEAKR Engineering, has taken on a new role at the Raytheon Technologies business as VP of product development and chief technology officer. The new appointee, who made the announcement via a LinkedIn post, has a nearly two-decade career with the aerospace and defense company, serving in its […] More
An HII business unit has received a one-year, $15.3 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps develop plans and policies, for responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive events. HII Defense and Federal Solutions will provide other technical services to the branch’s CBRNE Consequence Management Program, the Department of Defense said Monday. The group will […] More
Five companies have secured 18-month grants from the U.S. Army to continue developing prototypes of mission critical technologies as part of the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The service branch said Thursday it awarded up to $1.7 million to each SBIR participant to support the transition of artificial intelligence and machine […] More
Palantir Technologies has received a two-year, $99.9 million contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to extend the application of its data artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to users across the globe, particularly the Department of Defense’s combatant commands. The software company said Thursday the contract builds on its earlier partnership with the research lab […] More
