ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 7/21/2021

Boeing has secured a $58.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized contract action from the U.S. Navy for Quickstrike Extended Range non-functional glide kits, prototype articles and shipping containers. The contractor will design and produce QS-ER glide kits at its facility in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to complete contract work by March 2024, the Department of […]

Jennifer Warren, a vice president at Lockheed Martin, said that global partnerships among government, commercial and academic organizations will be key to sustaining operations in the space domain, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Warren noted at an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics-hosted online event Tuesday that while both the public and private sectors are pursuing space […]

Google Cloud has unveiled a set of service offerings meant to help federal, state and local government agencies establish zero trust architecture in compliance with the new executive order on cybersecurity. The company said Tuesday its new service offerings are Zero Trust Assessment and Planning, Secure Application Access Anywhere and Active Cyber Threat Detection. The […]

Two aircraft carriers deployed by British and Italian naval forces now use a GPS precision landing system made by the intelligence and space business of Raytheon Technologies to support their F-35 fighter jet operations. The company said Tuesday its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System has been installed on the U.K. Royal Navy’s HMS Queen […]

Collins Aerospace has launched a new flight control and vehicle management computer designed to deliver 20 times the processing power of existing company-built systems. The Perigon computer features a flexible and open-system design and has enough power to run by itself various software applications such as autonomous and fly-by-wire flight control, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance, the […]

Avi Mizrachi, CEO of Israel-based defense company UVision, said the U.S. armed forces will test the company’s two loitering weapon systems – Hero-30 and Hero-400 – in October at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. The U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and representatives from Special Operations Command are expected to participate […]

Microsoft and the National Institutes of Health have partnered to help researchers analyze and manage large amounts of biomedical data by giving them access to the company’s cloud computing applications and services. NIH has approved the Azure platform to support biomedical research workloads in the cloud as part of the agency’s Science and Technology Research […]

Black & Veatch‘s management consulting business has received accreditation to prepare federal contractors for assessments under the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. As a Registered Provider Organization, Black & Veatch Management Consulting can now deliver consulting services to companies applying for Level 1 to 3 CMMC certification, the company said Tuesday. The […]

Mercury Systems and CoreAVI have signed a licensing agreement to deliver the latter’s safety-certified graphics and video platforms and graphic processing units to customers in the aerospace and defense industry. Under the partnership, Mercury said Tuesday it will serve as the exclusive global sales platform that will integrate the software of CoreAVI with commercial-off-the-shelf hardware […]

The program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has automated parts of the process through which agencies may reuse FedRAMP-approved cloud products, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. The program, which aims to standardize the security of cloud products used in the federal government, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are using […]