LGS Innovations has won a one-year, $9.5 million task order to provide telecommunications cables for the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet. The company will supply the military branch with cable assemblies that comply with the Hydro-Acoustic Data Acquisition System ““ Truck Cable standard, the Defense Department said Monday. LGS Innovations will perform work through July 2016 in High […] More

The April release of documents for a draft request for proposals on a future nationwide public safety communications network marked another step in the government’s push to further examine how it can make greater use of commercial technologies. Also in April, Defense Department announced its own move to explore the commercial sector’s offerings in April with the release of Better Buying Power […] More

This is part two of our chat with Kevin Kelly, LGS Innovations‘ CEO. Click here for part one. ExecutiveBiz: How would you describe the current state of the GovCon M&A market? What do LGS and other companies look for in potential targets? Kevin Kelly: It is very active. In the course of the last twelve months, LGS has looked […] More

LGS Innovations will work as a subcontractor for on an initiative to upgrade the Defense Department's Research and Engineering Network under a potential 10-year, $750 million contract awarded to CenturyLink in 2012 by the Defense Information Systems Agency. LGS' task is to develop high-performance network for five supercomputing locations with speeds of 40 gigabits per second for DREN, […] More

  LGS Innovations has completed upgrade work on a communications infrastructure at a U.S. Army-run facility located at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The Army’s Kuwait-based main communications facility is responsible for managing the service’s C4 operations across Southwest Asia, LGS said Tuesday. According to LGS, the C4 system modernization is part of the Pentagon’s Joint Information Environment project. “LGS is proud […] More

Rich Martin, chief information officer at LGS Innovations, believes that comprehensive testing and validation are necessary to prevent technical issues when deploying massive federal IT infrastructures. “For crucial systems, many potential issues can be mitigated through testing,” Martin said in a question-and-answer session published on LGS’ website. “You need a lot of eyeballs reviewing test results […] More

LGS Innovations has won a $250,000 contract to research and develop a photonic source for laser technology used at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. EOS Photonics, Sandia National Laboratories, Research Triangle Park and Boston University will work with LGS toward a larger development effort LGS said Tuesday. The team intends to […] More

LGS Innovations has awarded scholarships worth $2,500 each to four Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students in honor of Ronald Iverson, the company’s first chief executive. Each AFCEA Lieutenant General Ronald Iverson ROTC Scholarship is paid annually to recipients that are college sophomores or junior cadets in a ROTC program, LGS said Tuesday. The […] More

LGS Innovations has won a $2.9 million contract to design and install the U.S. Geological Survey's wireless local area network, intending to help the agency secure Internet and Intranet access for visitors and staff. The company will also maintain the system at 200 agency sites under the three-year blanket purchase agreement, LGS said Tuesday. Aruba […] More

LGS Innovations has developed a new battery intended to help establish and reposition communication networks while on the move. The LGS Tactical Power Solution is designed to charge to full power in less than five hours and recharge while in operation, the Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary said Thursday. Kevin Kelly, LGS CEO, said the company intends for the […] More

Richard Martin this year joined LGS Innovations, a role he brings more than 20 years of leadership and technical experience to. He previously served as CIO for Reston, Va.-based Transaction Network Services where he led IT projects in telecommunications and recently completed an 18-month Executive Masters Program at George Washington University. In his conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Martin discusses how […] More

LGS Innovations has won a $4.1 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop laser technology intended to measure distance from a target by illuminating the target and analyzing backscattered light, Military & Aerospace Electronics reports. John Keller writes DARPA wants the Laser Radar Technology program to develop light detection and ranging technology […] More