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Dun & Bradstreet launched a cloud-based platform to help public sector procurement officials conduct due diligence on their suppliers. D&B Protect aims to reduce the risk of supply chain fraud and exploitation among North American government agencies, the market analytics firm said Tuesday. The online tool uses machine learning to map data on suppliers and […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed preliminary design reviews of all major subsystems of its Next Generation Interceptor, which is being developed for the Missile Defense Agency. The ground-based interceptor will undergo another major PDR review before moving on to the critical design review phase then the eventual delivery stage set for early 2027, the company said […] More
The government of Puerto Rico awarded ICF a potential three-year, $24 million recompete contract to provide technologies to support its disaster relief programs. Puerto Rico’s Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency extended its partnership with ICF for project development and hazard mitigation program support, the company announced Monday. Under the terms of the multiple-award […] More
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is inviting small businesses under the 8(a) program to submit bids for the second iteration of its Construction Management, Inspection, Surveying and Testing contract. The space agency expects to award the CMIST II contract in January 2024 and intends for the winning vendor to commence on-site services on Feb. […] More
Lockheed Martin unveiled a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing site that will be used to assemble small satellite programs and technologies. The company announced Friday the facility at its Waterton, Colorado, will help expedite the delivery of Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to the Space Development Agency. Lockheed is currently working to complete more than 50 Transport Layer […] More
The U.S. Army awarded Parry Labs two task orders to help implement a modular open systems approach to the service branch’s aviation hardware and software operating environments. The contracts are part of the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium MOSA agreement, the company said Thursday. The project involves deploying an Aviation Mission Computing Environment for future […] More
Twelve small businesses and startup companies were awarded Phase II grants under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Ignite program. The pilot initiative advanced all projects that received Phase I awards in 2022, which specialize in areas including climate resilience, solar energy, additive manufacturing and recycling, NASA said Friday. SBIR Ignite was created to attract companies […] More
Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government business, warned that financial cybercrimes exploiting artificial intelligence are not imminent but already taking place, CNBC News reported Wednesday. He noted that a new task force created by the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General to study AI is lagging behind criminal acts targeting government […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to market an enterprise-wide advanced container runtime software developed by Sylabs to public sector customers. Sylabs’ Singularity suite and other products are made available through Carahsoft’s reseller channels and government contract vehicles, according to a joint statement from the companies. The Singularity open-source container technology provides additional security in deploying performance-intensive […] More
Laura Schumacher, former chief legal officer and vice chairman of external affairs at drug firm AbbVie, was named independent lead director of General Dynamics‘ board. Schumacher, who has been on the board of directors of General Dynamics since 2014, will assume her new role immediately, the defense company said Tuesday. Her more than 33-year legal […] More
Oracle has created a cloud-native cloud computing architecture to help the Department of Defense securely run mission-critical workloads and store data of different confidentially, integrity and availability impact levels. The Secure Cloud Computing Architecture Landing Zone is designed in compliance with the requirements of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Impact Level 2, 4 and 5 […] More
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division concluded acceptance sea trials of the Calhoun, a Legend-class national security cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard. The vessel, also known as NSC 10, passed electric plant, propulsion and mission systems tests conducted by Ingalls and the Coast Guard, HII announced Friday. NSC 10 is named after Charles Calhoun, the Coast […] More
