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Christine Thropp

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.

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  • in Contract Awards, News

    Southwest Research Institute Books $79M Air Force Research & Engineering Contract

    Southwest Research Institute has received a $78.8 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force for research and engineering services in support of a Program Executive Officer directorate within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Under the 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the nonprofit research and development organization will work with the AFLCMC Agile Combat Support […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Boeing to Mature Hypersonic Missile Tech Under Air Force Deal

    Boeing has received a potential one-year, $39.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for the maturation of an “air-breathing” weapon system in support of the development of a hypersonic conventional cruise missile. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award is for preliminary design review, the first phase of the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment project, the […] More

  • in Executive Moves, News

    NetImpact Hires Praveen Kosgi as Technical Solutions VP

    Praveen Kosgi, former enterprise solutions director at VMD Corp., was appointed as vice president of technical solutions at NetImpact Strategies where he will help optimize technology portfolio by overseeing and advising on the company’s digital transformation delivery roadmap and go-to-market strategies. He brings more than two decades of experience in government technology transformation and will […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Navy Taps General Dynamics to Consolidate IT Help Desk Operations; Leigh Palmer Quoted

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business will use cloud-based artificial intelligence to modernize and consolidate the U.S. Navy’s IT help desks under a potential four-year, $136.5 million indefinitely-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will focus on building a knowledge-based platform out of the service branch’s Tier-1 service desks to ensure continuous warfighter operations, General Dynamics Information Technology said. Leigh […] More

  • in News, Space News

    Virgin Orbit Partners With SwRI on Potential Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Services Delivery

    Virgin Orbit and the Southwest Research Institute have partnered to look into combining the former’s LauncherOne rocket and the latter’s space mission development expertise to potentially pursue specialized mission opportunities. The partnership is exploring opportunities in joint SwRI platform manufacturing and services delivery to Virgin Orbit clients, and considering stewardship programs focused on the use […] More

  • in News

    Virgin Orbit Completes FAA Environmental Review for LauncherOne Rocket Operations From Andersen AFB

    Virgin Orbit has completed the Federal Aviation Administration’s final environmental assessment that found that licensing the company’s LauncherOne rocket operations from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam “would not significantly affect” the environment quality. According to the Aug. 27 notice, the proposed action from the agency is to provide Virgin Orbit with a launch operator’s […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Raytheon Subsidiary Books $77M Air Force Contract Modification for Missile Tech Production

    Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has secured a $77.1 million contract modification for the manufacturing and delivery of training missiles and their guidance component to the U.S. Air Force. The award exercised an option for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile production lot 35 captive air training missiles and CATM guidance sections, the Department of […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Matterport, In-Q-Tel Collaborating on Cloud Platform Development; George Hoyem Quoted

    Matterport has partnered with In-Q-Tel on the development of a government cloud platform that is planned for deployment on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) to support agencies’ information acquisition and management efforts. The move is aimed at addressing cybersecurity and other regulatory and compliance requirements to provide secure cloud services to federal and civilian […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Phase Four to Demo Multi-mode Propulsion Capabilities Under Space Force Contract

    Phase Four was tasked to demonstrate multi-mode propulsion capabilities using its radio-frequency thruster technology as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Space Force during the SpaceWERX Pitch Day in mid-August. The company said Wednesday its Maxwell engine will operate on an Air Force Research Laboratory-developed green propellant in an effort to enable varying […] More

  • in News

    Huntington Ingalls Begins 4th Ford-class Aircraft Carrier Construction

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Excella to Support IG Committee’s Pandemic Spending Oversight

    Excella will use its artificial intelligence capabilities to help a committee under the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency develop audit and oversight strategies to ensure transparency in pandemic-related spending. The company said Wednesday it received a two-year contract to support the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s work to enhance oversight of more than […] More