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Naomi Cooper

is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.

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  • Lockheed Forms 3 Mentor-Protege Collaborations for MDA's Next Generation Interceptor Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Contract Awards, News

    Lockheed Forms 3 Mentor-Protege Collaborations for MDA’s Next Generation Interceptor Program

    Lockheed Martin has entered into partnerships with three small businesses under the Department of Defense’s Mentor-Protege Program to support the development of the Missile Defense Agency’s Next Generation Interceptor. Under the two-year agreements, Marotta Controls, Space Information Labs and Valley Tech Systems will work as subcontractors on Lockheed’s NGI program to develop, mature and deploy […] More

  • DMI Designated as AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner; Rocky Thurston Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DMI Designated as AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner; Rocky Thurston Quoted

    DMI has been designated as an advanced tier services partner within the Amazon Web Services Partner Network for utilizing AWS services to optimize enterprise cloud deployments. With the new partner status, DMI’s team of AWS-trained and certified professionals will continue supporting government and commercial customers in cloud migration and application development, DevSecOps and serverless computing […] More

  • Air Force, Boeing Conduct Inaugural Flight of T-7A Red Hawk Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Boeing Conduct Inaugural Flight of T-7A Red Hawk Trainer

    The U.S. Air Force and Boeing have performed the maiden flight of the service’s first T-7A Red Hawk pilot training aircraft to signal the beginning of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. The digitally designed trainer jet flew for 1 hour and 3 minutes and demonstrated its ability to support fighter and bomber pilot […] More

  • CalypsoAI Receives Funding to Drive Secure Generative AI Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CalypsoAI Receives Funding to Drive Secure Generative AI Adoption

    Artificial intelligence security company CalypsoAI has raised $23 million in a Series A-1 funding round led by venture capital firm Paladin Capital Group to support the execution of its product development, talent acquisition and go-to-market strategies. The funding round follows the launch of the CalypsoAI Moderator tool that works to support the safe adoption of […] More

  • Renee Slobasky Assumes Westat's Board Chair Post; Patricia Shifflett Named as New Member - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Renee Slobasky Assumes Westat’s Board Chair Post; Patricia Shifflett Named as New Member

    Renee Slobasky, a senior vice president at Westat, has been named chair of the board of directors at the Rockville, Maryland-headquartered professional services company. She will succeed James Smith, who retired after nearly four decades of service at the company, Westat said. Prior to Slobasky assuming the chairmanship of the Westat board, she was a […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Primer's AI-Powered Threat Detection Tools to Public Sector; Michael Adams Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Primer’s AI-Powered Threat Detection Tools to Public Sector; Michael Adams Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer Primer‘s artificial intelligence-powered strategic data analysis and threat detection products to the public sector using its reseller partners and government contract vehicles. Through the partnership, Carahsoft will serve as the master government aggregator for the Primer Delta and Primer Command tools that use AI and machine learning to automatically […] More

  • Peraton Commits to Building Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce; Tom Afferton Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Commits to Building Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce; Tom Afferton Quoted

    Peraton has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Dakota State University to support the U.S. government’s national cyber strategy by helping build a diverse cybersecurity workforce. As part of the collaboration, Peraton said Monday it participated in DSU’s annual CybHER event that aims to increase diversity by introducing female students interested in the science, […] More

  • NGA Posts RFI for Follow-On MOJAVE Enterprise IT Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Posts RFI for Follow-On MOJAVE Enterprise IT Services Contract

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has begun soliciting information from industry sources that could support a follow-on contract covering a range of enterprise information technology and technical services. The MOJAVE Functional Area 3 encompasses six IT task orders to help NGA carry out management, intelligence and security functions, according to a notice posted Monday on SAM.gov. […] More

  • DARPA Sets Proposers Day for Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Sets Proposers Day for Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to hold a proposers day on June 30 to discuss an upcoming broad agency announcement for a program that aims to develop novel techniques to identify and remediate system vulnerabilities. The Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security initiative seeks to pioneer artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity hardening approaches to […] More

  • Space Systems Command, ULA Launch Classified National Security Payload to Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Command, ULA Launch Classified National Security Payload to Orbit

    Space Systems Command has launched another National Reconnaissance Office’s national security mission to geosynchronous earth orbit onboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-68 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, carrying a classified spy satellite payload for the U.S. government, SSC said. “The […] More

  • DARPA Taps 9 Companies to Develop VTOL Drone Designs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps 9 Companies to Develop VTOL Drone Designs

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has named nine companies to develop and demonstrate conceptual designs for an uncrewed aerial system with vertical landing and takeoff, and long endurance leap-ahead capabilities. The AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY initiative seeks to develop and flight demonstrate a VTOL aircraft that can be deployed and recovered from […] More

  • Mynaric to Deliver Laser Comm Terminals to RTX for SDA Tracking Layer Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mynaric to Deliver Laser Comm Terminals to RTX for SDA Tracking Layer Satellites

    Mynaric will produce and deliver three laser communications terminals for each of the seven missile tracking satellites being developed by RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. The company said Wednesday it will supply 21 Condor Mk3 terminals to RTX in 2024 to equip the latter’s infrared-sensing satellites with […] More