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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.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2022 — A Constellis subsidiary was awarded a potential $1.3 billion task order under the State Department’s Worldwide Protective Services III contract to provide the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, with protective support, specialized security and logistical services for up to a 10-year period, GovCon Wire reported. Triple Canopy will […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton looks to boost its edge analytics capabilities through a strategic investment in Reveal Technology, a Silicon Valley-headquartered company that combines computer vision, artificial intelligence and edge computing technologies to support warfighter operations. The firm said Tuesday its Digital Battlespace technology will gain additional capabilities from Farsight software platform that is developed by […] More
The General Services Administration’s technology innovation arm has launched an artificial intelligence-focused challenge aimed at identifying AI technologies capable of enhancing service delivery of agencies in response to COVID-19 pandemic and other related issues. According to a Challenge.gov posting, GSA Technology Transformation Service seeks white papers from traditional and nontraditional businesses about AI application in […] More
Atherton Carty, vice president of strategy and customer requirements at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works business, considers the recent flight test of an air-breathing hypersonic rocket by the Department of Defense and industry partners as the beginning of a more speedy weapons development process. In an interview with Defense One, Carty said demonstrating the Hypersonic Air-breathing […] More
William Conley, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Mercury Systems, was tapped to chair the newly established advisory board of Sensor Open System Architecture Consortium while Ken Hermanny, company senior director and general manager, was also named to the board. The company said Thursday both executives will be tasked to inform the SOSA […] More
An Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer built by HII for the U.S. Navy has sailed from the Ingalls Shipbuilding location to prepare for its commissioning ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina, in May. The shipbuilder said Wednesday Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) is the 33rd ship it constructed for the destroyer fleet of the Navy and […] More
A Department of Defense office has cleared the final step in an environmental impact study process to push forward a program aimed at developing a mobile microreactor for generating advanced nuclear power to meet growing energy requirements. The Strategic Capabilities Office published a Record of Decision for Project Pele and will begin construction and testing […] More
Iron Mountain will continue modernizing the records of the Department of the Treasury under an award for the second phase of the microfilm digitization and data extraction initiative. The Boston, Massachusetts-based enterprise information management company said Wednesday it was awarded a $6.8 million phase 2 contract to digitize Treasury documents using its artificial intelligence/machine learning-powered […] More
Mike Thomson assumed the roles of president and chief operating officer at Unisys following the company’s appointment of Debra McCann, former treasurer and senior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet, as executive VP and chief financial officer. Unisys said Thursday with McCann taking over Thomson’s EVP and CFO responsibilities, the latter is now tasked to […] More
Christopher Merdon will take over the position of group president of public sector at NTT Data‘s services business arm from Tim Conway who is set to retire on July 31. Prior to his most recent promotion, Merdon worked as division president at NTT Data Services and oversaw 1,500 employees working to support state and local […] More
ITA International will provide services in support of the Ninth Air Force Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron for a 10-month initial period of performance under a $78.6 million firm-fixed-price task order from the U.S. Air Force. The award covers staff support services at locations within the Central Command area of responsibility and has a two-month transition […] More
Software company Ansys has secured a potential five-year, $39.1 million contract from NASA to deliver a range of modeling and simulation technologies to the space agency’s centers across the U.S. NASA said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract allows it to procure the company’s simulation capabilities in electromagnetics, orbit determination, photonics, semiconductors, thermal, structures and other engineering […] More
