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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Lockheed Martin has received a potenrtial five-year, $84.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop, engineer and demonstrate technology for four missile baseline weapon systems.
Mahesh Saptharishi, formerly chief technology officer of Avigilon, has been appointed to the same role at Motorola Solutions.
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in AI.Reverie to further develop the latter company’s computer vision simulation platform designed to meet government agencies’ operational requirements. AI.Reverie’s platform is designed to create photorealistic virtual worlds to mimic real-time locations and provide automatically annotated synthetic data and various scenarios and objects to facilitate training of algorithms and artificial intelligence tools, IQT said Tuesday.
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The General Services Administration has begun to seek bids for a blanket purchase agreement in support of first phase discovery and assessment initiatives under the Centers of Excellence program. GSA said Tuesday the request for quote includes a challenge question to assess a vendor’s technical capabilities in a functional area; a scenario question to evaluate a vendor’s ability to collaborate with federal employees and other contractors in a cross-functional team; and another factor to test a contractor’s ability to send a response with regard to one functional area.
BlackBerry has established a new wholly owned subsidiary to help the company further build up partnerships with government agencies and advance Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-related initiatives. Robert "Bob" Day, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral, will serve as president of Washington, D.C.-based BlackBerry Government Solutions, the company said Tuesday.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that David Drabkin, chairman of the Section 809 Panel, was selected to join the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his role in the realignment of the Department of Defense’s acquisition process in 2018.
Bob Ritchie, who began his career as a tech lead for Science Applications International Corp., has returned to the company as head of its software practice.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Navy Vice Adm. Robert "Bob" Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was selected to the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his vision to improve the agency’s capabilities in its use of emerging technologies. This latest honor marks his first Wash100 win.
Grant Thornton's public sector practice and the Homeland Security & Defense Business Council have released a new report offers recommendations for public and private sector organizations to address technology procurement challenges and the underlying drivers of bid protests on homeland security-related federal projects.
Nazzic Keene, chief operating officer of Science Applications International Corp. and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as the company’s CEO.
