ExecutiveBiz News on Video 5/12/2022

Maggie Hallbach, senior vice president of Verizon Public Sector, spoke with ExecutiveBiz about her recent appointment to her new role after more than 25 years of service to the organization. In addition, Hallbach also discussed the importance of 5G for the public sector as well as Verizon Frontline, recent EIS task orders and how Verizon Public Sector is […]

The Department of Defense awarded a one-year research grant to the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to design and evaluate a hypersonic inlet technology. N.C. A&T will collaborate with the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University and Leidos, which will support the design evaluation work under the project, DOD said Tuesday. The team […]

Boeing has partnered with Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo to conduct ground-fire tests of the Ramjet 155 extended-range artillery projectile designed to enable precision fires from long distances for the U.S. Army. The partnership conducted the three-month tests in Norway to validate gun-launched survivability and performance predictions and expand the projectile’s employment envelope, Boeing […]

K2 Integrity will open a permanent office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and has named Bryan Stirewalt, formerly chief executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, as a senior managing director responsible for helping expand the footprint of the risk and financial crimes advisory firm in the country and the Gulf Region. Stirewalt will also focus […]

L3Harris Technologies has announced that its high-resolution imaging technology made its first image capture two months after it launched onboard the newest weather satellite of NOAA, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-18. The Advanced Baseline Imager produced the GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image from space using data from the instrument’s multiple channels, the company said Wednesday. GOES-18 […]

BAE Systems’ Australian subsidiary will supply critical software and hardware sub-assemblies in support of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2 program under a three-year, $50 million full-rate production contract with Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business. ESSM is a surface-to-air missile designed to protect combat ships from anti-ship cruise missiles, BAE said Wednesday. BAE Systems […]

Noblis has received a U.S. patent for an artificial intelligence-based process of identifying image quality issues. The Reston, Virginia-based nonprofit company said Wednesday its patented method involves the use of pre-trained algorithms that work to classify low-quality images. Chris Barnett, chief technology officer of Noblis, noted the potential application of such a tool in defense […]

Battelle developed a closed-loop, on-site platform designed to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or “forever chemicals” in contaminated water and conducted a pilot demonstration of the technology in early March at a wastewater treatment facility run by Heritage-Crystal Clean in Michigan. The Battelle PFAS Annihilator Mobile Unit can break down PFAS chemicals to non-detectable levels […]

More Acquia cloud services have received an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, expanding the range of company offerings that meet government security requirements. Aside from Acquia Cloud Platform and Site Factory, the company said Tuesday Acquia Site Studio, the latest Acquia Search versions and Acquia Platform Email capabilities now […]

Carahsoft Technology has partnered with Twilio to deliver the latter company’s customer engagement technology to the public sector. Through the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract, Carahsoft and its reseller collaborators will offer Twilio’s integrated communications platform to federal, state and local government entities as well as educational institutions, the company said Thursday. “Through this addition, Twilio […]