ExecutiveBiz – Covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. 6/23/2021

Leidos will assist the Transportation Security Authority in equipping all U.S. federalized airports with checkpoint screening equipment under a $470.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Wednesday its prime contract for Transportation Screening Equipment deployment services covers installation, relocation and removal activities for airport scanners as well as provision of on-site coordination and design support. […]

KBR will help the U.S. Air Force sustain landing and air traffic control systems under a five-year, $58.1 million task order the company won through a recompete. The Houston-based contractor said Wednesday it will perform research and analysis work for the ATC and landings systems sustainment branch within USAF’s digital directorate as part of the […]

Oshkosh Defense will establish a site in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to facilitate the development of a new fleet of delivery vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service. The company will add more than a thousand members to its workforce for the facility’s operations and expects on-site suppliers to hire more personnel for the Next Generation Delivery […]

Lockheed Martin has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build a protective capsule for the Mars Sample Retrieval lander. The company said Tuesday it will develop an aeroshell that will protect the lander from extreme heat during its journey in deep space, landing sequence and descent to Mars to facilitate […]

Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyze and process biological data. The company said Tuesday it will perform scientific computing and bioinformatics services to support CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection. Work under the contract will include information technology, data management, high-performance computing […]

Clarifai, an artificial intelligence company, has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with a directorate under a U.S. Army command to work on a large-scale electro-optical/infrared data labeling effort. The Army will evaluate the capability of AI-powered Clarifai Scribe Labeler to produce training data in support of the development of night vision and […]

The engine division of Fairbanks Morse Defense was tapped to deliver two main propulsion diesel engines to Eastern Shipbuilding Group as part of the latter’s development of the U.S. Coast Guard’s fourth Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter. Fairbanks Morse Engine will build the future Rush’s motor systems at a manufacturing facility in Beloit, Wisconsin, as part […]

Kymeta will provide eight connectivity terminals to the U.S. Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team for a pilot program that will focus on testing on-the-move communications equipment for military applications. The company said its u8 technology, an electronically controlled antenna that can support low Earth orbit and geostationary satellite constellations, will be integrated into and tested […]

Iridium Communications has made its satellite network-supported L-band broadband service class offering available for use in government, maritime and mobile land operations. The company said Tuesday its Certus 200 service can now deliver up to 176 Kbps of internet transmission speed for maritime and land-mobile applications via a lightweight antenna. The broadband service, designed for […]

Mitre has introduced an open-source tool that seeks to help organizations ensure that their threat intelligence and tactics, techniques and procedures are aligned with the ATT&CK knowledge base, a framework of tactics and techniques used by threat defenders to classify cyberattacks and assess and organization’s risk. The ATT&CK Workbench enables users to create, explore, annotate […]