Satellite communications company PathFinder Digital has received follow-on orders for BAT-GBS-85 mobile very small aperture terminals in support of the Department of Defense’s Global Broadcast Service program. BAT-GBS-85 is an airline-checkable and flyaway MVSAT system that operates on the Ka and Ku bands and has certification under MIL-STD-810G and ARSTRAT standards, PathFinder said Friday. The […] More

Tantus Technologies will provide financial management services in support of the systems used by the Office of Personnel Management to handle $151 billion in estimated federal retirement trust funds through fiscal year 2025. The company said Thursday it received a contract award to help OPM’s chief financial officer operate, maintain, develop, modernize, update, assess and […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has secured authorization to operate for its Azure Government Top Secret cloud platform, enabling it to support national security agency clients with data workloads classified at the Top Secret level. Keane wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft achieved the […] More

Global Technical Systems has won a five-year, $81.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the delivery of DLQ-9 carriage system pods and associated hardware, and required technical data. The contractor will provide one lot of the pods, the equipment needed for its modifications and data required for the simulation of electronic warfare threats, under […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Udacity‘s online learning products to public sector customers through a range of federal, state and local government contracts. Udacity’s Nanodegree program offers lessons on data science, digital marketing, application development and programming, which agencies may use to further develop the technology skills of employees, Carahsoft said Thursday. Government agencies […] More

The Department of Defense has authorized a Permuta Technologies-made mission readiness software for uses that require Impact Level 5 of cloud security. Permuta said Thursday its DefenseReady software is developed to ensure real-time enterprise awareness while enabling sensitive data to undergo processing in cloud computing environments. Organizations may use DefenseReady to process data on weapon […] More

Jack Norris, formerly a senior program manager for Covington Civil and Environmental, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division to serve as director of state and local government affairs. He brings more than two decades of government relations experience to his new position and his responsibilities will include working with the division’s […] More

Citadel Defense has received a sole-source contract from a classified Department of Defense customer for an artificial intelligence-powered counter-drone system. The technology will use AI, machine learning and sensor fusion capabilities to enable autonomous detection, tracking and elimination of unmanned aerial system threats, the San Diego, California-based company said Thursday. Citadel CEO Christopher Williams said […] More

Mercury Systems has secured a $17 million delivery order to provide the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center’s Aircraft Division with advanced data transfer systems that will be installed on its platforms. The Andover, Massachusetts-based aerospace and defense company said Thursday the order is made under a potential $84.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to Physical Optics, […] More

The aeronautical systems segment of General Atomics was added to nine out of ten pools available on a General Services Administration multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle and will compete for task orders meant to support the military and the Department of Defense. The ASTRO contract provides for the delivery of operation, maintenance, research and development […] More

Data Systems Analysts will compete for managed information technology services task orders under the 10-year, $12.6 billion Solutions for IT Enterprise III contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency. The Philadelphia-based professional services company said it will offer infrastructure development and sustainment, cybersecurity, network engineering and other managed IT services to DIA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence […] More

Palantir Technologies announced in May that it secured a potential $111 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command for enterprise data management support and Doug Philippone, the company’s global defense lead, said the contract with SOCOM marks the transition from the intelligence space to the mission command space, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Philippone told the publication […] More