Frontier Technology Inc. has appointed technical and industry leader Lincoln Hudson as chief operations officer in a series of leadership appointments aimed at strengthening its technology and service offerings across the Navy, space and cybersecurity areas in support of customers within the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Hudson, who joined FTI in 2023, brings to the role over 25 years of experience providing support for DOD, the company said Wednesday.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded veteran-owned IT and engineering services company Data Computer Corporation of America a contract with a maximum value of $37 million. DCCA said Wednesday that under the five-year deal, it will provide a variety of support services like systems and software engineering and cybersecurity to benefit DISA's command and control portfolio capabilities.

Michael Baker International has appointed Rachael Richter as practice executive for federal planning. In this newly-created position, Richter will lead a team in providing federal government customers with planning and designing services, Michael Baker said Wednesday.

A Thales subsidiary has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to prototype a family of advanced standard batteries designed to simplify logistical and network operations. Under the contract, Thales Defense & Security Inc. will utilize processes already employed to support the AN/PRC-148 radio family of batteries to manufacture hundreds of prototypes of the Small Tactical Universal Batteries by 2025, the company said Wednesday.

Investment firms Veritas Capital and KKR have agreed to invest in Cotiviti, a provider of data analytics services to health care organizations, to support the latter's commercial expansion and product development efforts. Veritas Capital and KKR will own equal ownership stakes in Cotiviti and allocate capital through their venture capital funds to help accelerate the company's fund growth and technology innovation investments, Cotiviti said Wednesday.

Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has received a 2024 Wash100 Award for his commitment to empowering cooperative scientific exploration and technological progress through various agency missions. The esteemed Wash100 Award has honored the most influential leaders in the government contracting industry for 11 years.

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OpenText has joined a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-led collaborative effort that seeks to improve the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. government and its international partners. As a member, the information management firm said Tuesday it will offer a range of services to bolster the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative in safeguarding sensitive data from cyber threats.

LMI has secured a potential five-year, $33.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide data and analysis services in support of the service branch’s Readiness-Based Sparing and Readiness-Spares Packages. Under the contract, the company said Tuesday it will help the Air Force Sustainment Center Logistics Directorate improve supply chain readiness, facilitate the decision-making process and provide optimization tools to help meet the goals of AFSC 2.0 and the Digital Depot Vision for Industry.

DLH has secured a potential five-year, $23 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue providing a range of information technology services for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Under the award, DLH said Tuesday it will oversee the operations of an integrated advanced clinical/research informatics system that facilitates real-time data and resource sharing for researchers.

Viasat completed the first of 105 installations of communication infrastructure for ships under the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command. Viasat said Tuesday that the project is part of the 10-year Next Generation Wideband contract awarded in 2022 by the Defense Information Systems Agency to Inmarsat.

A BWX Technologies subsidiary will continue providing the Tennessee Valley Authority with uranium downblending services under a $122 million contract extension. Nuclear Fuel Services has been supporting downblending operations of the U.S. government since 1995, and its current work with TVA is extended to June 2027 with the recent award, BWXT said Wednesday.

Paperless Innovations has received authorization from the General Services Administration to offer e-commerce tools from its Actus cloud-based government purchase card compliance automation and management platform to government customers via the GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle. The company said Tuesday it was assigned an E-Commerce Special Item Number for Actus, which is designed to enable federal, state and local government agencies to automate their purchase card transactions and compliance requirements.