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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.
Lauren Lyons, former executive at Blue Origin and SpaceX, was appointed as chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace where she will be responsible for driving efforts in scaling production and operations to support company growth. The new COO will focus on moving Firefly toward a production environment from its research and development setting to ensure […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug 17, 2021 — Leidos has wrapped up the transition phase for the services segment of its $7.7 billion Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract and assumed information technology management responsibility for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, OCONUS Naval Enterprise Network and the Marine Corps Enterprise Network, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 3. “With […] More
Systems Planning and Analysis will provide the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with subject matter expertise and integration and coordination services under a potential $185 million contract awarded to support DTRA’s research, development, test and evaluation efforts. The company said Monday it will assist the agency’s Research and Development Directorate in its science and technology development […] More
Global Technical Systems has won a five-year, $81.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the delivery of DLQ-9 carriage system pods and associated hardware, and required technical data. The contractor will provide one lot of the pods, the equipment needed for its modifications and data required for the simulation of electronic warfare threats, under […] More
Novetta has provided the U.S. Air Force with an integrated base defense technology in an effort to help the service branch monitor base security and connect airmen and intelligent systems for rapid decision making while on defense missions. The Platform for Integrated [Command, Control and Communication] and Responsive Defense or PICARD was accepted at the […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 11, 2021 — Accenture’s federal services arm will help the U.S. Army move to a unified enterprise resource planning system under a potential six-year, $729 million contract awarded by the service branch’s Communications-Electronics Command, GovCon Wire reported July 28. “This is an important opportunity to help the Army sustain its legacy […] More
Expression Networks and Global Healthcare Exchange will collaborate on the development of a new predictive analytics tool under the former’s phase 2 award from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command in support of a nationwide remote intensive care initiative. The prototype will combine GHX’s supply chain data and analytics with Expression Network’s artificial […] More
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 10, 2021 — CAES will support an advanced U.S. missile defense program by providing radio frequency and microwave rotary joints and waveguide products and integrating them into the missile seeker of the defense system, ExecutiveGov reported July 27. The company will deliver the rotary joints and waveguides under multiple contracts. Mike […] More
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has expanded a public-private partnership on technologies for quantum information management with the addition of Verizon and Zurich Instruments’ U.S. business arm. Argonne said Thursday Q-NEXT is a national quantum information science research center that seeks to develop technologies for quantum information handling, storage and transmission by pushing […] More
The U.S. Navy has christened the USS Nantucket, its 14th and newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship that was constructed by a team from Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine under a multi-million contract awarded in 2017. FMM released a LinkedIn post featuring the Saturday cermony that saw the vessel being launched into the Menominee River […] More
AchieveIt Online‘s plan management and execution software has been granted authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and was made available on the FedRAMP Marketplace. Government agencies may now use the cloud-based platform to modernize and streamline their planning efforts as the AchieveIt offering is compliant with the Low Impact baseline […] More
Lockheed Martin will join the second stage of a competitive evaluation process for the first phase of an Australian air force project that aims to establish an architecture for the country’s future air and missile defense capability. The down selection of participants in the CEPS2 marks a step toward the AIR6500 Phase 1 Joint Air […] More
