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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.
Boeing has partnered with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China for a project that aims to convert used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel for the aviation market. The companies established a demonstration facility that will use a Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology-built technology designed to produce up to 160 gallons of jet fuel derived from purified […] More
Lockheed Martin and Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan have signed a partnership agreement to develop, produce and market air-to-surface missiles for the F-35 fighter program. The companies seek to offer a new Standoff Cruise Missile variant that can be placed in F-35 internal carriage bays or on external carriage of other aircraft platforms, Lockheed said Tuesday. […] More
Lockheed Martin has provided U.S. Customs and Border Protection with a tethered aerostat-based radar platform meant to help the agency detect potential threats along the southern border. CBP is testing the Persistent Threat Detection System for the agency’s border surveillance activities in collaboration with Lockheed and the U.S. Army, the company said Wednesday. The Army […] More
CGI expects to create as many as 620 new jobs through an expansion of the company’s information technology and business process service operations in Bridgend, Wales. The company has received $3.7 million in funding from the Welsh government to help the organization grow its local presence, according to an article published Monday on the Welsh […] More
Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems, believes the U.S. defense industry’s future growth lies in efforts to make incremental investments that could offer contractors a step change in technology modernization, Defense News reported Tuesday. Paul McCleary writes Lord highlighted the challenges and opportunities for industry amid federal spending uncertainty in a speech at the Association of the […] More
Hewlett Packard has landed a five-year, $50 million contract to continue helping the Massachusetts Executive Office of Human and Health Services maintain the state’s Medicaid management information system. HP will continue to support the state Medicaid MIS infrastructure through June 2019 and will perform system upgrades to help agency personnel monitor providers’ e-health incentives, the […] More
Louis Berger has received a multi-year contract from the New York City Economic Development Corp. to support business recovery and infrastructure resiliency programs following Hurricane Sandy. The company said Monday it will also assess the potential impact of post-hurricane rebuilding initiatives on the city’s economy as well as cultural and environmental resources. “We look forward […] More
Airbus has chosen a Northrop Grumman subsidiary to manufacture attitude and heading reference systems for integration into multiple types of Airbus helicopters. Northrop Grumman LITEF is scheduled to start production of its LCR-350 AHRS for various Airbus-built helicopters in 2016, Northrop said Tuesday. Germany-based LITEF designed the technology to help pilots view aircraft heading and […] More
Personal and ubiquitous computing tools are giving rise to a new generation of platforms intended to drive greater integration within an organization, according to Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s federal division. Szakal wrote in a blog post published Friday the Third Platform can be defined as the convergence of mobile, big […] More
Information Builders has integrated its healthcare software application into a NetApp-built data storage product with the goal of helping medical users capture, analyze and store patient information in real time. The unified offering is designed to combine Information Builders’ Omni-Patient enterprise data management platform and NetApp’s flash array storage architecture, Information Builders said Thursday. “Today’s […] More
The Department of Homeland Security intends to award a $2 million contract to Implant Sciences Corp. to help the agency build systems for identifying explosives at U.S. airport security checkpoints. DHS aims to bolster air travel safety by developing new tools and methods for explosives trace detection, Implant Sciences said Thursday. “Implant Sciences will work […] More
CPS Technologies has won a $600,000 contract to manufacture cold plates for a defense radar system Raytheon is building for the U.S. Navy. CPS will deliver the metal-matrix composite materials to Raytheon under the Navy’s Air and Mission Defense Radar program, CPS said Wednesday. Raytheon won a potential $1.6 billion AMDR engineering and manufacturing development […] More
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