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Catherine Ni has been appointed vice president of close combat systems at aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin. Ni said Friday on LinkedIn she had spent roughly the past nine months holding the same position in an acting capacity, during which time she learned many things, had to think outside the box and became connected with "many great individuals across the enterprise."
The digital division of Baltimore, Maryland-based Fearless Solutions has won a three-year, $35.3 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the contract, Fearless Digital will support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Enterprise Data Exchange, a cloud-based data ingestion, validation and observation service.
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft launched on Nov. 9 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying technology demonstrations and scientific experiments to the International Space Station. NASA reported Thursday that the rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking SpaceX's 29th commercial resupply mission for the space agency.
Cloud platform provider TechnoMile unveiled GovSearchAI during Elevate 2023, the company's annual customer conference. GovSearchAI is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that works to help government contractors identify the federal contracting opportunities they would be in a position to win, TechnoMile said Thursday.
Digital consultancy and engineering firm Raft has appointed Jeanmarie Brown as chief operating officer. In a press release issued Tuesday to Executive Mosaic, Raft said that in her new role, Brown will work to grow the company's services, lead its daily operations and oversee the execution of its strategic plan.
Federal information technology and professional services provider IPTA has appointed James Combs Jr. as regional vice president. IPTA said Monday that, in this role, Combs will work to manage prime contracts as overseer of the company's newly-established southeast business unit.
Planet Labs has conducted a ground demonstration that validated technologies enabling connectivity between low Earth orbit satellites and in-space communication satellites operated by the government solutions business of Telesat and the space and defense business of SES. Planet said Friday the demonstration was part of a subcontract it had received in 2022 from Telesat Government Solutions and SES Space & Defense for NASA's Communications Services Project, which seeks to evaluate the feasibility of using commercial satellite communications to support future NASA missions.
The board of directors at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has undergone what the technology company describes as an "augmentation and refreshment process," which saw the retirement of board members Samuel Liberatore and Jane Judd and the addition of Brad Boyd and Dan Hagen. The changes went into effect on Nov. 1, Kratos said Thursday.
The artificial intelligence security platform offered by CalypsoAI will be made available to the public sector through Palantir Technologies' FedStart program under a partnership between the two companies. Palantir's FedStart program is a software-as-a-service offering that provides a government-accredited environment where partner companies can run their products, CalypsoAI said.
Technology solutions provider Cognosante has received a second contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs for cloud operations and migration services. The deal is worth $189 million and comes with a base period of performance of one year and two option years, Cognosante said Tuesday.
The mission systems business of aerospace and defense company General Dynamics has named William Scott deputy vice president of range systems. Prior to his new role, Scott served as General Dynamics Mission Systems' director of advanced airborne systems and, before that, senior manager of the company's littoral combat ship program.
Abt Associates has tasked Jeffrey Wuorinen to lead its climate and energy portfolio as the newly appointed vice president of just climate and energy transitions. In this capacity, Wuorinen will work to plan and implement projects that equitably address climate issues in collaboration with U.S. government clients and partner countries, the consulting and research firm said Monday.
