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  • Catawba, Day & Zimmermann Establish Joint Venture Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catawba, Day & Zimmermann Establish Joint Venture Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program

    A Catawba business and Day & Zimmermann’s maintenance and construction group have formed a joint venture, called Catawba D&Z, through the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Mentor-Protege Program to offer design and build, deactivation, decommissioning and demolition, environmental studies and construction support to military and federal agency clients. DZMC will advise Catawba Engineering and Environmental Services […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Kim Lynch, Christine Menza on 3 Strategies IC Should Adopt to Strengthen Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Kim Lynch, Christine Menza on 3 Strategies IC Should Adopt to Strengthen Workforce

    Kim Lynch and Christine Menza of Booz Allen Hamilton said there are three strategies the Intelligence Community should implement to support the IC workforce while building resilience amid the emergence of nation-state competition and the first is integrating the innovators. “The IC can move forward using commercial technologies that are readily available, embedding software across […] More

  • ULA’s Delta IV Heavy Brings NRO National Security Payload to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Heavy Brings NRO National Security Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload took off on Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV Heavy rocket that launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of the NROL-91 national security mission. “This mission was ULA’s 96th National Security mission and the NRO’s 10th mission on board a Delta IV Heavy launch […] More

  • SBA Selects 38 Small Business Support Organizations for PRIME Grants; Isabella Casillas Guzman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA Selects 38 Small Business Support Organizations for PRIME Grants; Isabella Casillas Guzman Quoted

    The Small Business Administration has awarded $7.2 million in grants to 38 organizations under a program that seeks to support nonprofit organizations that help low-income entrepreneurs secure funding to expand their small businesses. SBA said Friday the Program for Investment in Micro-Entrepreneurs or PRIME is a competitive grant effort that enables these organizations to offer […] More

  • Empower AI Forms Joint Venture, SBA Mentor-Protege Relationship With Lentech; Paul Dillahay Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Empower AI Forms Joint Venture, SBA Mentor-Protege Relationship With Lentech; Paul Dillahay Quoted

    Empower AI and Lentech have established a joint venture, called Astralis Innovations, to develop and bring artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other information technology platforms to federal agency customers. Empower AI said Thursday it also signed a six-year mentor-protege agreement with Lentech under the Small Business Administration to share best practices and offer assistance in the […] More

  • Gunnison Subsidiary Awarded US Courts IT Security Support Contract; Gil Dussek Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gunnison Subsidiary Awarded US Courts IT Security Support Contract; Gil Dussek Quoted

    Centerpoint, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gunnison Consulting Group, will deliver information technology security support services to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under a potential five-year, $25.5 million contract. Gunnison CEO Gil Dussek said in a statement released Thursday the award has been the second contract secured by Centerpoint since its combination with […] More

  • Maxar Gets NOAA License to Offer Non-Earth Imagery Service; Dan Jablonsky Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Gets NOAA License to Offer Non-Earth Imagery Service; Dan Jablonsky Quoted

    Maxar Technologies has received a license from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide non-Earth imagery service to monitor the space environment for orbital debris and other satellites and commercially offer that data, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar and a 2022 Wash100 awardee, said the company plans to use […] More

  • NVIDIA, Booz Allen Partner on AI-Based Cybersecurity Processing Framework; Matt Tarascio Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVIDIA, Booz Allen Partner on AI-Based Cybersecurity Processing Framework; Matt Tarascio Quoted

    NVIDIA and Booz Allen Hamilton have teamed up to offer to public and private sector clients a graphic processing unit-accelerated artificial intelligence cybersecurity platform called NVIDIA Morpheus. Booz Allen has employed Morpheus to develop Cyber Precog, a GPU-accelerated software platform that supports the deployment of AI models and modular pipelines at the edge and facilitates […] More

  • Raytheon Completes System Requirements Review-Prototype for Glide Phase Interceptor; Tay Fitzgerald Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes System Requirements Review-Prototype for Glide Phase Interceptor; Tay Fitzgerald Quoted

    Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business will now transition the Glide Phase Interceptor to the preliminary design phase following the completion of the Systems Requirements Review – Prototype. GPI is designed to provide the U.S. and its allies with a regional defense layer against missile threats by intercepting hypersonic weapons during the glide phase, Raytheon […] More

  • Northrop, Air Force Eye December Launch for B-21 Raider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Air Force Eye December Launch for B-21 Raider

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force will launch the B-21 Raider bomber in the first week of December at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California. Tom Jones, corporate vice president and president of Northrop’s aeronautics systems, said in a statement published Tuesday the company is proud of its partnership with the Air Force as […] More

  • Raytheon's StormBreaker Weapon Completes F-35B Release Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s StormBreaker Weapon Completes F-35B Release Tests

    The U.S. Navy and Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business deployed two StormBreaker guided test vehicles from an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft and found that the weapon system carried out the required flight behaviors during the test. The deployed weapon systems reached a speed of .9 Mach and completed a seven-shot rate capture series […] More