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  • Carahsoft to Market Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform to Government Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Market Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform to Government Customers

    Carahsoft Technology and Pyramid Analytics will bring the latter’s artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered technology to the U.S. federal market segment to help customers in their decision-making efforts in health care, homeland security and defense areas. Under the partnership, Carahsoft will make Pyramid’s Decision Intelligence Platform available to federal, state, local and government agencies through […] More

  • Textron Lands 2nd UAS Support Work Aboard Navy Expeditionary Mobile Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Lands 2nd UAS Support Work Aboard Navy Expeditionary Mobile Base

    A Textron subsidiary will help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command handle unmanned aircraft system operations for the USS Miguel Keith expeditionary sea base under a five-year, $22 million contract.  Textron Systems will utilize the Aerosonde UAS equipped with mission payloads to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance work aboard the ESB-5 vessel, the company […] More

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    Former Airbus US Exec Chris Emerson Joins Firefly Aerospace Board

    Chris Emerson, former CEO and chairman of Airbus‘ U.S. space and defense business, has joined the board of directors of Firefly Aerospace to provide industry expertise as the company pursues space transportation opportunities. Emerson brings to the Firefly board more than 25 years of experience in aerospace and defense, space as well as commercial aviation, […] More

  • ICEYE, NGA Ink Research Agreement on Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Application - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICEYE, NGA Ink Research Agreement on Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Application

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and microsatellite manufacturer ICEYE will look into developing new technology involving satellite imaging modes of commercial synthetic aperture radar under a five-year collaborative research agreement.  The cooperative research and development agreement, which involves five research tasks, aims to achieve remote sensing of polar regions and detection of natural hazards across the […] More

  • Parsons-led Consortium to Support Operations of NOAA's Polar Orbiting Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-led Consortium to Support Operations of NOAA’s Polar Orbiting Satellites

    A Parsons-led team will provide engineering support, information technology functionality and flight operations assistance for three Polar Operational Environmental Satellites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Under a $16 million NOAA contract, the team comprising of ASRC Federal unit Arctic Slope Technical Services, Kongsberg Satellite Services and Parsons will support the operations of NOAA-15, […] More

  • Air Force to Solicit Info on Technologies for Rapid Sustainment Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Solicit Info on Technologies for Rapid Sustainment Office

    The U.S. Air Force will host an informational industry day on Dec. 6 to gather information on advanced manufacturing and other technologies that will help in the enhancement and modernization of maintenance and logistics across the service branch. A notice posted on Tuesday on SAM.gov indicates the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is looking […] More

  • L3Harris to Equip Sky Warden Aircraft With Moog Stores Management System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris to Equip Sky Warden Aircraft With Moog Stores Management System

    L3Harris Technologies has chosen Moog‘s space and defense division to supply the weapon stores management system for an aircraft under the U.S. Special Operations Command Armed Overwatch Program. Moog said Tuesday its division will integrate its Stores Management System on each AT-802U Sky Warden aircraft, which is being jointly built by L3Harris and Air Tractor […] More

  • Aerospace Vet Jeffrey Lane Named Vector CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Vet Jeffrey Lane Named Vector CTO

    Vector Launch appointed Jeffrey Lane, a defense and aerospace industry veteran with 40 years of experience, as chief technology officer.  Lane will be responsible for creating and implementing technology strategies within Vector, the company said Tuesday.  The executive recently had a five-month stint as a consultant at Lane Aerospace and previously served as chief engineer […] More

  • REI Systems' Peer Review Tech to Assist National Science Foundation in Proposal Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    REI Systems’ Peer Review Tech to Assist National Science Foundation in Proposal Evaluation

    REI Systems will utilize its peer review modular platform GovReview to update the proposal evaluation system of the National Science Foundation after securing a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract.  NSF will deploy GovReview to support its expanding portfolio and widen its capability to support internal program review requirements, including integration with multiple software […] More

  • Arvenita Cherry Elevated to President Post at Maximus Foundation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arvenita Cherry Elevated to President Post at Maximus Foundation

    Maximus has promoted Arvenita Cherry to the roles of vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion and president of the government services provider’s foundation. Cherry took over John Boyer, who served as Maximus Foundation‘s president for 17 years and will remain the foundation’s chairman until his retirement, Maximus said Monday. Following his retirement within the […] More

  • Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards $54M Comms Suite Support IDIQ to Pole/Zero

    Ohio-based defense electronics supplier Pole/Zero has received a six-year, $53.4 million contract to provide products for the communications suite of P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol planes operated by the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international customers. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers the procurement of 346 communication trays and antenna interface units, the Department of Defense said Monday. […] More

  • TBP&JJ Worldwide to Help Operate, Maintain NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TBP&JJ Worldwide to Help Operate, Maintain NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center

    NASA awarded TBP&JJ Worldwide Services a potential five-year, $43 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain facilities at an Edwards, California-based aeronautical research center. The company is scheduled to commence support services for the Armstrong Flight Research Center under the firm-fixed-price, time-and-material contract on Dec. 1, the agency said Friday. Services will include repair, […] More