Spire Global and Ursa Space Systems have teamed up to merge their capabilities and help U.S. federal agency clients track illegal activity in the maritime domain. Spire will provide automatic identification system data and combine it with synthetic aperture radar imagery sourced by Ursa Space to help detect and monitor “dark” ships that may be […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Spire Global is among the contractors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a pilot program for demonstrating commercial data impact on weather forecast models over a 12-month period, GovCon Wire reported. The company was awarded a Commercial Weather Data Pilot contract and will support the NOAA’s […] More

Spire Global will continue to provide NASA with access to its satellite and Earth observation data under a one-year contract extension awarded through the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. The company said Thursday it will deliver data collected from its radio occultation satellites to the agency to support weather forecasts, ionosphere monitoring and sea ice […] More

Spire Global will provide weather forecasts at 10 aerostat sites under a potential five-year subcontract with TCOM. The numerical weather prediction subcontract includes notification alerts for TCOM aerostat site operators, weather training for site managers and a contact center providing weather information, Spire said Monday. Spire operates a constellation of over 100 satellites offering weather […] More

Vectrus has announced its financial results for the third quarter, which ended Oct. 2, 2020. The company reported that the quarter revenue of $352.4 million was down slightly year on year by 2.1 percent due to COVID-19 pandemic related deferrals. "Third quarter results were solid, reflecting improved volumes and margin levels," said Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

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Cisco will offer $2.5B in financing through a new program to provide customers and partners access to technology platforms needed to ensure business continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business Resiliency Program will help clients manage their cash flow during the crisis by allowing them to defer 95 percent of the cost of a new Cisco hardware, software or service until January 2021, the company said Tuesday.

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Cisco has earmarked $225M to support global COVID-19 response efforts, including technology development and other healthcare, government and educational initiatives.

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Charles “Chuck” Prow serves as managing partner of the global public sector and managing partner of North American consulting services for IBM Global Business Services. IBM says Prow has focused many of his more-than-25-years in executive leadership working to transform complex organizations through improving operations and implementing the use of technology. This has included clients in […] More

Spire Global has booked a $9.9 million order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deliver commercial radio occultation satellite weather data to the agency in support of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service. The fifth and final delivery order was awarded under an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for purchasing vertical atmospheric temperature […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Charles Harrington, CEO and chairman of Parsons, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for growing the company through acquisitions and contract awards and expanding work with U.S. defense customers.

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A new PwC report on the mergers and acquisitions in aerospace-and-defense industry says deal activities increased in 2014 compared to 2013 and the number of transactions worth at least $1 billion doubled from the prior year. The firm’s Mission Control report, authored by PwC Global A&D Leader Guillaume Rochard and U.S. A&D Leader Chuck Marx, says the total deal value reached $22.3 billion in 2014, up from the $14.3 […] More

Arnold Punaro has seen and lived both sides of the GovCon sector, having served a nearly three-decade career in the Marine Corps, retiring with the rank of major general, working in the U.S. Senate, including 14 years as staff director or minority staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee and for 14 years as […] More