TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2020 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will provide DevSecOps support to the U.S. Air Force's LevelUP cyber software factory under a five-year basic ordering agreement, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 3.

Assured Consulting Solutions has received a task order to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency engineer and integrate systems that support projects under the NGA's Foundation GEOINT mission.

NASA has selected six entrepreneurial companies to receive $100K each as winners of a prize competition that sought concepts to build instruments and other technology that could support science exploration programs. The winning startups on the Entrepreneur's Challenge are Cognitive Space, Evermore Intelligence, MOBILion, Trace Matters Scientific, Guardion Technologies and Cold Quanta.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 8, 2020 — An ECS business group that offers digital services to the federal sector is absorbing Integrated Solutions Management after ECS' parent organization ASGN (NYSE: ASGN) acquired the Tampa, Florida-based information technology consulting firm, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

Altamira Technologies will collaborate with five other companies under a one-year, $8.5M contract to build a mission data processing application prototype for the U.S. Space Force's Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution program. “We are excited to have the opportunity to leverage our core capabilities and experience to further serve this important national space mission area," said Blaine Worthington, chief operating officer of Altamira.

The Environmental Protection Agency has enlisted the help of REI Systems to assess technology development and commercialization proposals for EPA's Small Business Innovation Research program.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.

Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, said a recent discussion he moderated for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council provided insights on cybersecurity, cloud technology and information sharing.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 30, 2020 — Christine Cocrane, LMI's former director of policy analysis and operations, has succeeded Christen Smith as vice president of management advisory services at the government consulting services contractor, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 19.

Inmarsat and Singapore-based communications firm Addvalue Innovation have introduced a service to facilitate data transfer between low-Earth orbit small satellites and ground stations. The partnership commissioned the Inter-satellite Data Relay System service Nov. 12 on Sequoia, a Capella Space synthetic aperture radar microsatellite, and launched the IDRS offering after completion of a live data connectivity demonstration, Inmarsat said Monday.

TrellisWare Technologies has demonstrated a system for networking multiple radios over the same radio frequency channel during a recent event for the company's key U.S. military clients.

Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting firm Data and Analytic Solutions has been selected to help the Internal Revenue Service explore approaches to accelerate the agency's contracting process. IRS said Monday it will work with DAS through a research partnership aimed at bringing together procurement professionals, university professors and students who have been educated in machine learning.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 24, 2020 — Matt Kraning, co-founder and chief technology officer of Expanse, said the ongoing pandemic highlights urgency of a rigorous asset inventory and management approach for government information technology organizations to understand attack surfaces, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 17.

Michael Crouse, a user protection specialist at Forcepoint, has said agencies should incorporate user and data protection approaches into their overall security strategy. In a GCN guest piece published Monday, Crose offers three questions agency leaders can ask to pinpoint privileged access management challenges and suggests potential measures to address such issues.

BWX Technologies and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed up to develop 3D printing technology for the production of metallic compounds needed to build a nuclear reactor system.