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Advanced Technology International has won a potential three-year, $100 million “other transaction” agreement to support a U.S. Navy information warfare research project. The nonprofit company will perform work through June 2021 in Summerville, S.C., and other locations that will depend on the service branch’s prototype project awards, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Space and Naval Warfare Systems […] More
Telos has secured a potential five-year, $45 million delivery order for the update of the telecommunications systems across the U.S. Army‘s theater of operations in the Pacific region. The company said Tuesday it will provide development, engineering, installation, security, evaluation and training services to support the U.S. Army Pacific’s voice over internet protocol requirement. “Maintaining reliable […] More
Panelists representing the Air Line Pilots Association, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and SpaceX recently testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation about the necessity of government regulatory reform in commercial space transportation. Teslarati reported Tuesday that the panelists identified two primary areas where timely government action is needed, namely: […] More
A new KippsDeSanto report has found that approximately 75 percent of dealmakers said they expect the number of mergers and acquisitions in the government services sector to climb by at least 5 percent this year. KippsDeSanto said Tuesday it polled 168 strategic buyers and executives from private equity groups who are interested in defense, government […] More
The U.S. Navy‘s 2018 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise will explore the potential of autonomous underwater systems for human-machine interaction, USNI News reported Tuesday. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island will facilitate the event and enable participants to showcase their unmanned systems, as well as help the Navy assess technological potentials in artificial intelligence, […] More
Cal Shintani, chief growth officer at HighPoint Global, has said there are signs of improvement in the federal government’s effort to build up customer experience. Shintani wrote in an article that there are reports that show progress in customer experience and one of those is the Government CX Insights report, which found that citizen experience scores […] More
Boeing‘s venture capital arm has invested in Matternet, a company developing an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for urban logistics use. The California-based startup raised $16 million through a recent Series A funding round led by HorizonX Ventures, Boeing said Tuesday. Matternet received authorization last year to operate a UAV platform over Switzerland’s densely populated areas and has delivered medical samples to Swiss hospitals […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the government should direct appropriations toward efforts that leverage commercial satellite communication platforms to establish an integrated satcom architecture. “For 2019, a strong leadership is needed to apply funding resources to take full advantage of the forward-looking architecture that commercial satellite operators […] More
CSRA, a managed affiliate of General Dynamics‘ information technology business, has received a potential $65 million task order to provide IT support for the Environmental Protection Agency‘s local area network. The General Services Administration‘s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center awarded the order that covers work at more than 100 EPA offices for a period of up […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has partnered with a Phillips Service Industries subsidiary to help customers develop and engineer metallic structures through the use of a three-dimensional printing technology. CTC said Tuesday it will offer Sciaky‘s Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing technology in efforts to address a demand for large-scale 3D-printed metal components. EBAM is designed to process nickel, tantalum and titanium-based alloys used […] More
Bruce Caswell, president and CEO of Maximus, has said the company aims to broaden support for federal information technology, citizen service and mission objectives through the General Services Administration‘s potential $50 billion Alliant 2 procurement vehicle. GSA awarded 61 spots on the unrestricted portion of the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. Maximus plans to use its business process approaches and previous federal […] More
The CEOs of Northrop Grumman and IBM have jointly urged Congress to pass legislation that would reauthorize and update the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Northrop’s Wes Bush, a four-time 2018 Wash100 recipient, and IBM’s Ginni Rometty wrote in a joint opinion piece published Friday on CNBC the proposed bill would fund CTE programs […] More
