Steven Spano, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and regional vice president for the public sector business at data visualization software company Tableau, has said leadership teams in the federal government can play a key role in the creation of a data-driven culture to help employees obtain insights, make decisions and improve mission outcomes. 

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 24 contracts to 22 small businesses to conduct research-and-development efforts that seek to address mission requirements across the DHS enterprise. The latest SBIR awards include the 1,000th contract issued since the Small Business Innovation Research Program's inception in 2004, DHS said Friday.

NASA is seeking contractors to develop, integrate and operate a commercial segment on the International Space Station as part of the agency's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships 2 program.

A senior executive at Raytheon announced that the company has secured a contract to build one of the payloads for the Blackjack program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Breaking Defense reported Friday.

Hawkeye Systems is now trading on OTC Markets under the ticker symbol “HWKE,” a step that the imaging technology company expects to help increase its public presence.

Mark Frantz, co-founder of BlueDelta Capital Partners, has been appointed to the board of directors at ASGN -- the parent company of ECS Federal -- as an independent member.

William Lynn, CEO of Leonardo DRS, has said he sees potential growth opportunities in the satellite communications business and that projects with the U.S. Army and Navy account for nearly 70 percent of the defense company's government contracting work, National Defense reported Thursday.

The U.S. Navy is seeking potential contractors for the design and construction of its multimission FFG(X) guided missile frigates, which are to operate in coastal and deep water environments to provide support for air, anti-submarine, surface and electronic warfare.

Luke Savoie, president of surveillance and strike systems sector at L3 Technologies, has said L3 and partner AVX Aircraft aim to meet the Capability Set 1 requirements of the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program by designing a platform from the outset, Rotor and Wing International reported Thursday.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has issued a new report describing how the medical community can apply deep learning to better diagnose eye problems.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has named 10 companies and research organizations that will support the first phase of a $1.2M global challenge to build technologies to measure Earth’s magnetic field.

SpaceX has completed the third static-fire test of the 27 Merlin 1D engines of its Falcon Heavy Flight 3 and is on schedule for the rocket’s second launch on June 24, Teslarati reported Wednesday.

The General Services Administration has issued a request for quotations for a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement covering vendor offerings to support the agency's information technology modernization initiative. GSA said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice it posted the RFQ on its eBuy portal and is scheduled to conclude the first step in the solicitation process on July 1.

Raytheon and airspace intelligence platform AirMap are combining expertise and services to explore projects intended to help the drone industry integrate their products into the national airspace system.

David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, has been elected as co-chair of the board of directors for the software and services division of the Software & Information Industry Association. Egts will lead the board with Neil Wainwright, CEO of UpHabit, SIIA said Monday.