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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.
The Joint Authorization Board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has named six cloud service providers prioritized to work with JAB on security package reviews. Selected CSPs were given provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP Connect, the program management office said Tuesday. The CSPs are: 3rd Eye Technologies, Inc. – Mystic Message Archival […] More
Sierra Space will advance the development of a 35,000 lbf thrust upper stage engine under a 27-month, $22.6 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force. Work for the maturation of Vortex advanced upper stage engine or VR35K-A will involve designing flight-weight engine components through the use of component and integrated breadboard engine test data, […] More
Raytheon will help digital automation company Node.Digital enhance cybersecurity capability, business development strategy and other practices as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Mentor-Protege Program. The RTX business will provide Node.Digital with mentorship and technical assistance to allow both parties to bid as prime and support DHS’ program risk mitigation efforts, the aerospace and […] More
The National Center of Atmospheric Research has tapped Ball Aerospace to design a radio frequency front end system under a program aimed at developing next-generation weather data gathering tool. NCAR’s Airborne Phased Array Radar is meant to boost capability for high-impact weather event data capture to enhance forecasting models, the company said Monday. Both parties […] More
Robert Miller, former president at EverWatch, has joined Future Technologies Inc. to succeed Ram Gupta as CEO of the Fairfax, Virginia-based technology company. Gupta, founder of FTI and now its executive chairman of the board, said in a statement published Tuesday Miller has “tremendous” federal technology knowledge as well as growth and leadership background. “He […] More
Amazon is constructing a $120 million facility for Project Kuiper at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center to support its development of low Earth orbit satellite constellation for broadband network services. The company said Friday its most recent investment will open 100,000 sq. ft. of space for final satellite processes at […] More
System High will deliver classified information technology destruction services to an unnamed government customer under a potential five-year, $49.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Monday it was tapped to provide mission protection standard-compliant destruction services in different locations where support is required. “At System High, our Proactive Protection Secure Holdings Risks reduction and Equipment […] More
NASA has released a solicitation for flight test services and added capabilities in support of its future space missions or potential commercial applications. The space agency said Friday the Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services 4 contract will cover payload hosting, space flight on commercial platforms and other services. The solicitation is aimed at […] More
LMI will support high-level meetings, events and publications of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under a four-year, $7 million contract. Services will focus on planning and supporting OUSD(P) and Defense Secretary events, developing and providing graphics and travel information, managing audiovisual activity and printing reports and classified trip books, LMI […] More
HII has partnered with Babcock International Group to jointly pursue U.K. and U.S. opportunities in naval and civil nuclear decommissioning and construction work. Under a memorandum of understanding, the companies plan to use complementary capabilities to fulfill existing nuclear decommissioning contracts for British submarines and U.S. ships, HII said Monday. Chris Kastner, president and CEO […] More
Artificial intelligence company Hypergiant has secured a potential three-year, $61 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for continued development of a cloud-based command and control user interface in support of the Advanced Battle Management System program. The Austin, Texas-based contractor said Tuesday it will work on the Joint Effects for Real-time Integrated C2 Operations […] More
Derek Davis, former vice president at a satellite communications company, has joined iDirect Government as senior VP of sales responsible for advancing its business development and execution and overall sales. iDirectGov said Monday Davis will also work to drive innovation, expand defense outreach and deliver customer values to the Department of Defense and company partners. […] More
