ExecutiveBiz News on Video 4/7/2022

Shawn Purvis, president and CEO at QinetiQ’s U.S. Group as well as a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with ExecutiveBiz about joining the company and becoming its president and CEO as well as the core values she believes in to build a strong company culture. In addition, Purvis also discussed her growth and acquisition strategies […]

Ensco has started transition work on a potential $570.9 million contract from the Department of Transportation to operate and maintain a Pueblo, Colorado-based center for rail system research, development, test and training. The Ravensworth, Virginia-headquartered company said Wednesday it will begin full operations of the federal-owned Transportation Technology Center in October to support the Federal […]

Accenture has invested in Titan Space Technologies to help the latter further develop its artificial intelligence models and other orbital compute platforms to support space experimentation. The strategic investment marks Titan’s participation in an Accenture Ventures program, dubbed Project Spotlight, that seeks to invest in companies working on enterprise technologies and link software startups to […]

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has led a project team that sought to demonstrate the application of reverse engineering and advanced manufacturing systems to produce hardware for domestic nuclear power plants.  CTC said Wednesday its Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing worked with Westinghouse Electric and three power companies in Pennsylvania to carry out the demo with financial […]

CACI International has inched closer to the 2023 launch of its demonstration small satellite program into low-Earth orbit after completing the spacecraft’s critical design review. The DemoSat program will send two payloads to space to showcase alternative positioning, navigation and timing, and tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies from orbit, the company said Wednesday. The […]

A joint venture between Guidehouse and ReefPoint Group has received a five-year contract to provide consulting services in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ environmental sustainability initiatives. According to a joint statement released Wednesday, Taurian Consulting and VA will collaborate to enhance the latter’s environmental sustainability through a range of efforts covering energy and […]

BAE Systems has secured a year-long contract from the U.S. Space Force to create a mission data framework that Space Systems Command can use to link separate, interoperable sources and enable data fusion and discovery. The company said Wednesday it will develop and test an integrated data management environment for SSC’s Enterprise Management and Control […]

Definitive Logic has proposed five concepts to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Commission to help improve the Department of Defense’s PPBE process and one of those is the need to start with Fortune 500-tested processes for financial planning. “Today’s Fortune 500-tested financial planning processes have a proven track record of allocating resources well […]

The Department of Defense and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration have partnered to launch a challenge that seeks to speed up the development and implementation of open-system 5G interfaces and interoperable components. DOD said Wednesday the 5G Challenge Preliminary Event: RAN Subsystem Interoperability seeks hardware and software capable of advancing open ecosystem for 5G. […]

Bluescape Software‘s virtual workspace platform has attained an impact level 5 authorization for use across the Department of Defense. The IL5 designation allows agencies, DOD personnel and contractors to leverage Bluescape virtual workspace and collaboration tools for sensitive, unclassified data,  the company said Wednesday. Federal integrator Bridge Core helped Bluescape achieve the IL5 authority to […]