Processing....
Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
An Airbus Group subsidiary has finished work to integrate a three-dimensional maritime radar technology onto a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship. Airbus Defence and Space equipped USS Milwaukee with its TRS-3D multimode radar through an agreement with LCS’ prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Airbus said Tuesday. The technology is designed to automatically locate sea and air […] More
CAE USA has delivered two of six T-44C flight simulators designed to train U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and foreign student pilots. The company handed the simulation equipment over to the Navy in less than one year for the branch’s aircrew training program, CAE said Tuesday. “We are pleased to deliver these new T-44C simulators, and […] More
The Evergreen State College’s Center for Sustainable Infrastructure has published a report that seeks to encourage U.S. organizations to adopt new strategies to operate, manage and upgrade infrastructure systems. Seventy experts from industry, academia and government agencies in the Paficic Northwest provided their insights for the report, CH2M Hill said Monday. The report says investments […] More
BAE Systems wants to offer the U.S. Army an electromagnetic railgun technology for integration onto the branch’s next fleet of armored ground vehicles, IEEE Spectrum reported Monday. Evan Ackerman writes the Army could decide in 2016 whether its proposed Future Fighting Vehicle program will proceed. BAE and General Atomics have developed long-range railguns for U.S. […] More
NASA has awarded Orbital Sciences a contract to help the agency send an ionosphere-monitoring satellite to orbit in mid-2017 by using the company’s Pegasus rocket. Orbital said Monday it also started production work on the Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite at a facility in Dulles, Virginia under a contract won in 2013. The company is contracted […] More
QinetiQ has bought SR2020‘s seismic imaging and processing technology for approximately $1.7 million to complement QinetiQ’s distributed acoustic sensor and vertical seismic profiling offerings. QinetiQ acquired the SR2020 platform to allow QinetiQ’s OptaSense business to provide, analyze and interpret subsurface seismic data for customers, OptaSense said Monday. Magnus McEwen-King, a managing director at OptaSense, said the […] More
The General Services Administration will launch a third iteration of its contract vehicle for federal property leasing and brokerage services. GSA said Monday it has posted a draft solicitation for a contract that will cover work to help the agency’s realty contracting officers perform market surveys, document preparation and site visits. The GSA Leasing Support Services […] More
SafeNet has launched an encryption-as-a-service platform with the goal of helping cloud service providers and their enterprise customers manage data security in multitenant virtual or cloud infrastructure. The ProtectV for Service Providers offering is designed to help organizations avoid unauthorized access to sensitive information in shared cloud environments, SafeNet said Monday. The company also offers […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Exelon‘s proposed acquisition of power distribution company Pepco Holdings. “FERC’s approval is another step forward toward completing this transaction,” Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon, said Friday. The companies aim to merge their electric and natural gas utility operations in a bid to expand their footprint in […] More
Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility in Bedfordshire, U.K., to host testing of mission software platforms for the F-35 aircraft. The Virtual Analysis Laboratory is located at the company’s site in Ampthill and designed with simulation cockpits for pilots and engineers to assess F-35 mission systems, Lockheed said Friday. “Establishing the F-35 VAL in the […] More
A Naval Surface Warfare Center division has requested information on potential sources of equipment intended to detect trace amounts of explosives. NSWC’s explosive ordnance disposal technology unit seeks to leverage industry’s existing platforms that can identify triacetone triperoxide, urea nitrate, potassium chlorate and ammonium nitrate mixtures, the Department of the Navy said Nov. 13 in […] More
Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.
To use social login you have to agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website.
Accept