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Rudy Fernandez, formerly senior director of maritime systems and integration operating unit at Northrop Grumman, has joined Frontier Technology Inc. as vice president of Navy/Marine Corps operations, he announced on LinkedIn Sunday. The transition follows his more than six-year stint at Northrop Grumman, where he also most recently served as Charlottesville site lead.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has concluded the builder’s sea trials for the San Antonio-class landing platform dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. in preparation for its delivery to the U.S. Navy in the spring. The company said Thursday the vessel, with hull number LPD 29, underwent systems testing in the Gulf of Mexico.
An RTX subsidiary is set to collaborate with industry partners for the development of a new technology that could enhance sensor capabilities across ground, maritime and airborne domains under a $20 million National Security Technology Accelerator contract. RTX said Thursday Raytheon will package commercial devices from partners like AMD to assemble a next-generation multi-chip package capable of transforming radio frequency energy into digital information with more bandwidth and higher data rates.
BAE Systems is poised to commence vehicle testing activities after delivering to the U.S. Marine Corps the first production representative test vehicle of the amphibious combat vehicle 30-millimeter cannon variant. The aerospace company said Thursday it will continue to collaborate with the service branch and the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering over the next 15 months to test and demonstrate the PRTV during a Fleet Marine Force event in southern California.
BAE Systems has concluded the critical design review of an advanced global positioning system receiver and next-generation semiconductor for the U.S. Space Force. The CDR is part of the $247 million contract that BAE received in 2020 from the agency to design and manufacture new technologies in support of the Military GPS User Equipment Increment 2 Miniature Serial Interface program, the company said Wednesday.
Carahsoft Technolog will act as a master government aggregator for SparkCognition Government System’s artificial intelligence-based visual security tool to the public sector, including schools. The Visual AI Advisor will be made accessible via reseller partners, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners contracts, Carahsoft said Wednesday.
ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers.
KBR has garnered recognition from NASA's Office of Small Business Programs for its successful collaboration with small businesses in support of the space agency’s objectives. The company said Monday it won the 2023 Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year awards at two NASA facilities, namely the Johnson Space Center and Goddard Space Flight Center.
ICF has received three task orders cumulatively worth $33 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the assessment of chemical exposure risks to human health and the environment. The first, second and third task orders are individually valued at $22 million, $8 million, and $3 million, respectively, the Virginia-based company said Monday.
Brett Vaughan, former chief artificial intelligence office at the Navy, has been appointed as an inaugural member of the board of advisers at Knexus, an AI and machine learning developer. Building on his service experience, Vaughan will assist Knexus in addressing the evolving needs of the modern warfighter.
Tom Fusco, former vice president of special operation forces and advance programs at Viasat, has joined SNC as vice president of strategy and business development for the company's new digital grid business unit. He will be responsible for overseeing the team dedicated to expanding digital grid capabilities and markets on a global scale.
Lockheed Martin and Boeing have each won $66 million contracts from the U.S. Air Force for the first phase of a program aimed at procuring two satellites to augment the existing narrowband military satellite communications constellation. The contracts involve providing risk reduction and early design activities to minimize uncertainties and risks before progressing to the next phase of the Mobile User Objective System Service Life Extension program.
