Farooq Mitha, who leads the Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs, has detailed DOD efforts to mitigate the declining number of small businesses in the defense marketplace as the said suppliers are considered as an essential part of the industrial base. In a commentary piece Business Insider published Tuesday, Mitha wrote that small […] More

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft carrying four astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday after a nearly six-month stay at the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Crew-1 mission. Resilience carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi performed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:56 a.m. Eastern time.

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has launched a new integrated device manufacturing strategy to help the company advance innovation and drive product leadership. Gelsinger said in a statement published Tuesday the company will use the IDM 2.0 strategy to design and manufacture products in the “best way possible for every category we compete in.”

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Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, received the Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for the fifth consecutive time after being named to the 2021 Wash100. Be sure to visit GovConWire to read Leanne Caret’s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile.

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Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary launched two small satellites as part of a controlled flight experiment to demonstrate a technology designed to help address orbital debris congestion. The DRAGRACER satellites took off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle Nov. 19 to demonstrate a deployable tether technology designed to help low-Earth orbit satellites quickly return to the Earth's surface.

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ViON has expanded its enterprise cloud portfolio with the launch of three cloud service offerings. Object Storage as-a-Service, Archive as-a-Service and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure as-a-Service are pre-defined private cloud platforms under the ViON Enterprise Cloud portfolio.

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Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA’s public sector division, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the impact artificial intelligence is having on the U.S. government, the reason why there’s so much red tape in AI innovation, why attracting talent is such a challenge in today’s climate and how the government can implement emerging technology more effectively.

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IBM is slated to begin offering next-generation cryptography services on the IBM public cloud next year in an effort to help clients better protect their systems against emerging cybersecurity threats.

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Steve Selfridge, president of Government Services for Day & Zimmerman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent acquisitions, diversifying its portfolio, the challenges of implementing the latest emerging technologies and the process of recruitment.

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Iron Mountain has secured a potential five-year, $65M blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of Homeland Security store and manage records.

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled an object-based storage designed to help government and commercial clients retain data in cloud computing environments.

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Boeing’s Tapestry Solutions subsidiary will deliver an in-transit visibility system to the U.S. Central Command to help monitor the ground-based deployment of military assets throughout different countries in the Middle East. The Global Distribution Management System will support CENTCOM in tracking the logistics operations of contractors in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab […] More