ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/17/2021

Maximus announced Friday that its board of directors has unanimously elected John Haley to serve as chair and Anne Altman to work as vice chair alongside Wash100 awardee Richard Montoni. Haley previously served as a director at Maximus from 2002 to 2019 and rejoined the board in 2020. He brings deep knowledge of Maximus and […]

Boeing has secured a $70 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with carriages and release equipment for GBU-57 bombs, also known as Massive Ordnance Penetrators. The company will produce and deliver the orders from Saint Charles, Missouri, through April 30, 2026, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management […]

Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, head of the F-35 joint program office at the Department of Defense, said DOD could be ready to enter into a performance-based logistics contract with Lockheed Martin for the fighter jet program once the recently signed agreement for F-35 sustainment support services expires in fiscal year 2023, Defense News reported Thursday. […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Dynamics‘ mission systems business a $66 million contract modification to further develop, maintain, sustain and expand a network infrastructure for battlefield information. The company will continue its work on the U.S. Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System Extended or US BICES-X infrastructure under the Air Force contract with […]

L3Harris Technologies has announced the expansion of its missile defense satellite workforce and asset at its Fort Wayne campus in Indiana to address the Department of Defense’s growing need for resilient spacecraft. The now 150,000-foot classified campus will host engineering, integration, testing and program management in support of satellite programs and U.S. missile defense efforts, […]

Northrop Grumman has secured a $13.3 million contract to continue developing a software-defined positioning, navigation and timing payload as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Blackjack program. The company’s Future PNT Systems Operating Unit in Woodland Hills, which assists DARPA Tactical Technology Office’s mission of attaining low Earth orbit national security space capabilities, […]

BigBear.ai, an artificial intelligence and machine learning company, has entered into a commercial software agreement with Virgin Orbit to support and strengthen the launch services company’s capability with AI-powered, space-based data insights in support of the U.S. government, commercial clients and international defense. BigBear.ai said Friday it has already begun utilizing its Decision Dominance platform […]

HySpecIQ has secured Series B funding that will contribute to the development of the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics company’s 12-satellite hyperspectral imaging constellation. The satellites will produce imaging data for conversion by a future cloud-based platform into actionable insights using spectral algorithms and analytics for intelligence agencies and other public and private institutions, the company said […]

GigaIO, a provider of data center architecture for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications, gathered $14.7 million from a Series B financing round led by Impact Venture Capital. The company said Thursday it will use the investment to expand the company’s market and grow its partner network. GigaIO will further invest in customer development and […]

The government-focused data analytics platform of Qlik has achieved an “In-Process” designation at the moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Qlik Cloud Government uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence to analyze data for various applications such as interactive dashboards, reporting and alerting as well as search and conversational analytics, the […]