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  • BAE Systems Secures USAF Maintenance Contract for Automated Flight Planning System
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    BAE Systems Secures USAF Maintenance Contract for Automated Flight Planning System

    BAE Systems has received a three-year $34.1 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force for maintenance activities in support of a system the service branch’s air operators uses to create optimized, fuel-efficient flight plans. BAE Systems will perform continued Level III software maintenance of the Air Force’s fielded Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning […] More

  • Tech Executives Sandi Mays, Corban Tilleman-Dick Join ColdQuanta as Business Advisers
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    Tech Executives Sandi Mays, Corban Tilleman-Dick Join ColdQuanta as Business Advisers

    ColdQuanta has named technology executives Sandi Mays and Corban Tillemann-Dick as business advisers who will contribute their technological expertise, strategic insight and industry experience to help the quantum technology company increase adoption of its commercial offerings. Mays is the cofounder of communications infrastructure services company Zayo Group, where she also served as chief information officer, […] More

  • Perspecta, Now Part of Peraton, Receives Bridge Contract for DHA IT Service Center Management
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    Perspecta, Now Part of Peraton, Receives Bridge Contract for DHA IT Service Center Management

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded Perspecta, which now operates as part of Peraton, a $12.1 million bridge contract to continue support services at DHA’s global service center for information technology. DHA issued the potential one-year contract extension as it needs more time to complete the transition of center operations to the new Enterprise IT […] More

  • Army to Use Valid Eval Tool for Applied SBIR Program, xTech Prize Competition Assessments
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    Army to Use Valid Eval Tool for Applied SBIR Program, xTech Prize Competition Assessments

    Valid Eval will provide a U.S. Army office, command and laboratory with software and evaluation services needed for selecting non-traditional defense contractor-designed technologies through research and development programs and competitions. The Software as a Service platform provider said Wednesday it received a Small Business Innovative Research Phase III contract for the implementation of large-scale evaluation […] More

  • USMC Vet Robert Walsh Added to SpiderOak’s Federal Advisory Board
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    USMC Vet Robert Walsh Added to SpiderOak’s Federal Advisory Board

    Robert Walsh, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, has been tapped by SpiderOak Mission Systems to join the secure communication and collaboration product developer’s federal advisory board and help inform its business strategy and product development efforts. Walsh will contribute nearly four decades of experience in serving at USMC and work with other board […] More

  • Sehlke Receives Navy Contract for Financial Management Support to Naval Medical Forces Atlantic
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    Sehlke Receives Navy Contract for Financial Management Support to Naval Medical Forces Atlantic

    Sehlke Consulting will provide financial management support to Naval Medical Forces Atlantic as part of the company’s prime contract award on the Financial and Business Operations Management Support services acquisition vehicle of the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The award covers budget development and execution, accounting analysis, audit and civilian personnel budget support […] More

  • Nutanix’s Chip George: Agencies Must Embrace Hybrid Work Model to Help Meet Modern Demands
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    Nutanix’s Chip George: Agencies Must Embrace Hybrid Work Model to Help Meet Modern Demands

    Chip George, vice president of public sector sales at Nutanix, said federal and public sector information technology leaders must prioritize further adoption of telework approach and modernization of IT systems to help them meet modern demands and achieve mission goals moving forward. In a commentary piece Nextgov published Friday, George wrote that agencies demonstrated persistent […] More

  • Raytheon Lands $113M Navy Contract Modification for Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 Production
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    Raytheon Lands $113M Navy Contract Modification for Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 Production

    Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business has received a $112.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for production efforts for the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2B and delivery of RAM Block 2 guided missile round pack to Egypt under the Foreign Military Sales program. More than 60 percent of work under the contract’s firm-fixed-price […] More

  • ColdQuanta Named to IBM Quantum Network to Help Research Quantum Computing Applications
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    ColdQuanta Named to IBM Quantum Network to Help Research Quantum Computing Applications

    IBM has added ColdQuanta to its global community through which the latter will collaborate with other member companies, research laboratories and academic institutions to study practical applications of quantum computing and to advance the said technology. ColdQuanta said Wednesday it partnered with IBM and joined its Quantum Network to collaboratively develop quantum technologies and push […] More

  • Honeybee Robotics, mPower Technology Partner to Design NASA’s Space Solar Power System
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    Honeybee Robotics, mPower Technology Partner to Design NASA’s Space Solar Power System

    NASA has selected Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology to jointly design a space solar power system in support of the space agency’s Vertical Solar Array Technology initiative aimed at helping enable long-term lunar surface operations. Altadena, California-based Honeybee Robotics and Albuquerque, New Mexico-headquartered mPower will work on the Lunar Array Mast and Power System concept […] More

  • oneNav Teams Up With In-Q-Tel, Launches L5 Mobile GNSS Receiver
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    oneNav Teams Up With In-Q-Tel, Launches L5 Mobile GNSS Receiver

    Global navigation satellite system technology developer oneNav has introduced a mobile GNSS receiver designed to use L5 signals, and has partnered with In-Q-Tel, the venture capital and business development organization of the intelligence community, in an effort to provide agencies with GNSS technology. Steve Poizner, co-founder and CEO of oneNav, said in a statement published […] More

  • CACI’s Communications App, Sensor Tech Recognized With Edison Awards; John Mengucci Quoted
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    CACI’s Communications App, Sensor Tech Recognized With Edison Awards; John Mengucci Quoted

    CACI International has received two Edison Awards in recognition of the technological innovation of a secure mobile communications offering for government use and an electro-optical/infrared sensor for real-time aerial mapping and surveillance. The company said Thursday its SteelBox app, which won a Bronze Edison Award, is designed to enable government agencies to conduct encrypted phone […] More