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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Enlighten IT Consulting has partnered with Amazon Web Services in a push to help federal civilian and defense agencies store, manage and secure information in the GovCloud (US) environment.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started the process of soliciting research proposals for a machine learning technology to help autonomous systems determine its task competency and support human-machine teaming activities.
The U.S. Army intends to award in May up to 10 potential five-year contracts worth $94.5M combined for master planning architect and engineering support services to support the Army Corps of Engineers Europe District’s plans to construct military and other related facilities. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday said the military branch plans to award a minimum of three indefinite-delivery contracts for such services in support of the Army Corps of Engineers Europe District.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has asked industry to submit ideas on how to develop a weapons system that would hit targets at a range surpassing that of systems being used by organic infantry units.
Firefly Aerospace has announced plans to open manufacturing and launch facilities within Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. The company said Friday it will invest $52M to construct production facilities at Exploration Park and begin launch operations at Space Launch Complex 20 as part of an agreement with Space Florida, the state’s spaceport development authority.
Cubic will present its virtual training tools and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms at the six-day Avalon 2019 aerospace exposition, which is scheduled to kick off on Feb. 26 in Victoria, Australia. The company said Friday it will showcase its Secure Live, Virtual and Constructive Training platform and the Engage KOV-13 encryptor designed to address information assurance issues with air combat training system pods.
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Huntington Ingalls Industries has handed over the USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday its Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially transferred responsibility over the ship to the military service with the signing of the DD 250 delivery document.
NASA and SpaceX announced plans to launch on March 2 the first unmanned test flight of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The space agency said Friday the Demonstration Mission-1 will take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which aims to utilize U.S.-built and operated private space vehicles to bring astronauts to the ISS and other low-Earth orbit destinations.
Celeste O’Dea, business development director for public sector technology at Oracle, has said cloud-based technologies could help federal agencies recruit a new generation of public sector workers and retain existing workforce. O’Dea wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that human capital management and talent acquisition systems on the cloud could aid agencies in streamlining recruitment procedures and outcomes.
Radiance Technologies has won a potential five, year $77.4M contract to provide system engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers science and technology development support related to space and cyber space, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Stan Lowe, global chief information security officer at Zscaler, has said federal agencies should shift their focus to operational security as they modernize their information technology infrastructure and meet evolving missions. Lowe wrote in a GCN article published Friday how the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative provide agencies an opportunity to address cyber threats and implement operational security.
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ManTech International plans to build on the revenue growth and expand its portfolio with the addition of space-related contracts, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. "Space is definitely one of our top strategic thrusts moving forward for expansion," said Damian DiPippa, senior vice president and general manager of ManTech's mission, cyber and intelligence solutions business unit.
