ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 7/9/2021

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded an $89.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to continue industrial work on submarines operated by the U.S. Navy and its British counterpart. The Virginia-based military shipbuilder will provide program management, engineering, yard planning, trade and technical services for underwater vessel facilities, availabilities and conversion efforts, the […]

Robert “Rob” Hoyecki, a veteran Curtiss-Wright executive, has joined CIS Secure as chief operating officer. He will oversee CIS Secure’s product engineering, quality assurance, production and testing efforts, the company said Thursday. CIS Secure CEO Bill Strang said Hoyecki will bring to the role his experience in managing mission-critical systems and will help identify acquisition […]

Randy Domingo and Abhi Singh of Amazon Web Services said AWS has launched a platform that could help contractors speed up the deployment of a cloud-based environment that complies with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. They wrote in a blog posted Tuesday that the AWS Compliant Framework for Federal and DoD […]

Wilson Wang, vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer at Mitre, has been elected to the board of governors of the University of Maryland Alumni Association. He and seven other at-large board members began their two-year terms on July 1 to provide strategic direction and help oversee the Alumni Association’s future programs, the university said […]

The U.S. Air Force has begun using Boeing-made KC-46 Pegasus aircraft to conduct air refueling missions in support of F-35 Lightning II jets, expanding the tanker’s role in the military, Government Executive reported Thursday. Pease Air National Guard Base in New Hampshire deployed KC-46 units to refuel F-35s of Vermont ANG. Col. Nelson Perron, the […]

The U.S. Army has sought information on vendors with capabilities to provide a cloud-based common application platform. Mission and Installation Contracting Command in West Point, New York, plans to use the platform to “collect application data and through batching, provide the information to open files on candidates applying to the United States Military Academy at […]

BlackSky Holdings aims to expand its business footprint in the Southwest region by opening a new office at a facility built by a space-focused organization in New Mexico. The geospatial intelligence technology provider said Thursday it collaborated with NewSpace New Mexico, a nonprofit committed to supporting the development of the state as a space innovation […]

A Saildrone-built autonomous maritime vehicle mapped 6,400 square nautical miles of ocean floor during a 28-day proof of concept voyage from San Francisco to Honolulu. The Surveyor unmanned surface platform traversed 2,250 nautical miles for its initial deep-ocean mapping mission, the company said Thursday. A team of Saildrone, the University of New Hampshire and the […]

Carahsoft Technology will provide public sector customers with Spire Global‘s maritime and aircraft tracking data as part of a new partnership between the companies. Spire’s space-based automatic identification system maritime data and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast aircraft tracking information will be offered to government end users to help them enhance operational processes and observe suspicious activities […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched two spacecraft under the Blackjack program in an effort to demonstrate advanced laser communications terminals. DARPA said Wednesday the pair of Mandrake 2 satellites reached orbit in late June as part of the SpaceX Transporter 2 launch and are currently undergoing checkout and commissioning. The agency considers […]