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Executive Mosaic has announced that David King, group president for Dynetics at Leidos, has received the first Wash100 Award, the most respected and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), of his long career in the federal sector for his leadership and innovation as Dynetics works to expand the Leidos Innovations Center's technical capabilities. 

KBR has been awarded a five-year, $539 million cost-plus-award-fee engineering task order to support rapid prototyping and fielding of systems for the U.S. Air Force's Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) program. The Air Force's program aims to support operational requirements by applying national space capabilities at the tactical level.

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information seeking ways to reduce the financial expenses involved in the development of spacecraft.

Going from an idea to an act of innovation comes naturally to some, others met with mild confusion in the design, inception, implementation or aftermath stages of taking a concept to market. In an area of industry like GovCon, the approach to this potential roadblock is just as important as …

General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a virtual Proposers Day on May 3-4 to discuss an upcoming broad agency announcement that will seek proposals for “innovative” military technologies. DARPA said Tuesday its Tactical Technology Office regularly holds Proposers Days to outline technologies that the office is most interested in and to …

General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business has secured a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research a method for direct tornado detection. The company said Wednesday it will form a collaborative research team with the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which also received a separate NOAA grant, to study the use of …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office will hold a proposers day on April 20 and 21 to discuss ways to develop new military technology systems and seek potential contributors. DARPA said Wednesday it is searching for ideas in agile development, autonomous or cooperative unmanned systems, weapons, power and propulsion proposals for ground, maritime, air and space …

Space Systems/Loral will build a new broadband satellite for Hughes Network Systems‘ Internet service, which has more than 659,000 subscribers as of the end of calendar year 2012. JUPITER 2/EchoStart XIX is scheduled to launch in mid-2016 launch and will have more than 150 gigabytes of throughput, Hughes said Thursday. …

Lockheed Martin has appointed Rick Ambrose vice president and deputy of the space systems business, the company announced Thursday. He will report to Joanne Maguire, an executive vice president, in the newly-created position. Ambrose previously served as head of the information systems and global solutions-national business area and GovCon Wire …

Joanne Maguire, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space systems company, was formally inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in Washington Sunday. Maguire's citation recognizes her for “individual and team leadership of successful space programs.“ She becomes one of only 2,290 U.S. members and 202 foreign associates elected to the …