Lumen Technologies and VMware have expanded their partnership to increase design, development and delivery time of edge computing, as well as deliver more secure, work-from-anywhere systems. “The Lumen-VMware partnership will provide the exact combination required to transform business processes and customer experience,” said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer of VMware.

NASA has issued a request for information to seek potential sources of enterprise communications services for the agency's various centers.

ECS has promoted John Heneghan to chief operating officer (COO) and Giles Kesteloot to chief strategy officer (CSO) in an effort to enhance company performance and speed up growth. In the roles, Heneghan and Kesteloot will enhance customer service and maintain the business operations. “I am proud to promote John and Giles to the roles of COO and CSO,” said ECS President George Wilson, a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

Commercial and public sector consulting services provider Guidehouse has named 20 new partners to lead the company's various practices as part of its efforts to provide employees with career development opportunities. "I’m really proud to work with each of them and excited about the leadership they bring to Guidehouse and to their teams of professionals," said Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse and a 2020 Wash100 winner.

Steve Loving and David Callner, vice presidents at Riva Solutions, have been promoted to senior VPs of corporate operations and technology solutions, respectively. Aside from the promotions, Riva also announced the appointment of Randy Bloxsome, who holds more than 25 years of professional experience, as SVP of finance and accounting as part of company's leadership team expansion in response to major contract awards won in 2020, Riva said Wednesday.

SEAKR Engineering has recorded nine months of on-orbit demonstration data for the company’s Pit Boss mission management technology as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Blackjack initiative.

General Dynamics's mission systems business and Redcom Laboratories have partnered to market a Type 1 cryptographic voice gateway designed to provide companies and government agencies with end-to-end secure communications.

Northrop Grumman has worked with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Smithsonian Institution to transfer the operations control center of the orbiting Chandra space telescope to a facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, from its previous location near Harvard University's campus in Cambridge.

General Motors' defense arm has begun renovating one of its facilities to support manufacturing activities for a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier for the U.S. Army.

NASA has selected Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black to launch different types of small satellites under contracts with a combined value of $16.7M. The companies will send to space nanosatellites, CubeSats and other types of small satellites under the Venture Class Launch Services Demonstration 2 effort, the space agency said Saturday.

General Dynamics' mission systems business and REDCOM Laboratories have partnered to offer an integrated system designed to secure conference calls for national security operations. The Sectera vIPer Secure Phone/REDCOM Secure Voice Gateway is compliant with the Advanced Cryptographic Capabilities standard of the National Security Agency and combines secure routing with Type 1 encryption to protect conference calls from unauthorized interference, General Dynamics said Thursday.

Northrop Grumman has shipped the latest version of an avionics suite with digital cockpit features to support the U.S. Army’s fleet of UH-60V Black Hawk medium-lift helicopters, Inside Defense reported Wednesday.