Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.
The U.S. Army has selected 24 small businesses to develop advanced wearable technologies designed to address current and future warfighting needs. The selected companies will receive Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contracts worth $150,000 each to produce a wearable device capable of sensing and monitoring real-time physiological data to assess a warfighter’s health and […] More
L3Harris Technologies has secured a five-year, $93 million contract to help the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority upgrade its public safety communications network system. The company said Friday it will build a new platform compliant with the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Project 25 standards to enhance response times and collaboration among conductors, station personnel […] More
Defcon AI, a developer of modeling and simulation software for military logistics applications, has introduced the members to its board of directors and advisers. Mark Esper, the inaugural member of Defcon AI’s board of directors and a three-time Wash100 awardee, is joined by five new additions including the three executives who co-founded artificial intelligence-focused company […] More
The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected a team up of Black Sage and Spectral Sensor Solutions to research novel lidar sensing systems eyed to boost the detection and discrimination capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles. Black Sage said Wednesday the partnership will conduct work under the Lidar Unmanned Aerial System Detection and Discrimination program at […] More
Allison Transmission has secured a $51 million contract to equip the Abrams main battle tank used by the U.S. Army and international military customers with transmission technology. The company said Wednesday it will deliver X1100-3B1 transmission and technical support to the service branch and foreign military sales clients beginning in January 2023. Deliveries and technical […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is seeking industry input on the development of a cloud-based architecture envisioned to automate the collection, dissemination and analysis of GEOINT data and products. NGA said in a notice SAM.gov posted Monday it wants information from companies capable of providing operations and maintenance support services to help maintain, operate and upgrade […] More
Platform developer CloudBolt Software has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Shawn Petty, former multi-cloud management offering owner at IBM, as chief customer officer and Howard Levenson, former general manager at Databricks, as member of its board of advisors. Both executives bring decades of government experience and will help guide the hybrid cloud […] More
The Department of Veterans Affairs has teamed up with Verizon‘s public sector business to develop and test 5G Mobile Edge Compute technologies and drones in an effort to boost safety, security and physical infrastructure monitoring across the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. The Veterans Health Administration and Verizon are evaluating the ability of 5G-enabled […] More
American Systems will provide test, evaluation and certification services to the Defense Information Systems Agency under a potential 10-year, $1.01 billion contract. The company said Monday it will deliver a full spectrum of joint test and evaluation services to DOD’s Joint Interoperability Test Command at Fort Huachuca in Arizona and Fort George G. Meade in […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have concluded the fourth flight test of a guided air-launched missile at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the coast of California, where the weapon demonstrated its target engagement capability. The AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range was launched from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft and engaged a […] More
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has secured a task order worth at least $97.2 million to provide NASA with a next-generation astronaut spacesuit for use outside the International Space Station. The task order covers the spacewalking system’s development, critical design review and demonstration on Earth in a simulated space environment, NASA said Friday. […] More
Xage Security will participate in the first cohort of a National Renewable Energy Laboratory initiative that supports the development and testing of secure clean energy technologies. NREL’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator offers the company an opportunity to test renewable energy systems using zero trust identity-based access management and remote access capabilities and autonomous local identity […] More
