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Booz Allen Hamilton has co-hosted an onsite and online crowdsourcing hackathon at the firm’s innovation center in Washington, D.C. to present the impacts of crowdsourced development in the federal sector. The four-day 2016 Topcoder Open Finals exhibited an Environmental Protection Agency Megahack that aimed to develop a portal for policymakers, industry associations and other key stakeholders […] More
Paul Hobelmann will join WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff as a vice president at the company’s Arlington, Virginia office. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff said Monday Hobelmann will lead its structural engineering practice on buildings in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and aid the company’s suite of services that covers mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering. Hobelmann has more than […] More
Fitch Ratings has said U.S. government reimbursements and lower funding requirements can help mitigate cash flow impacts to defense contractors over the next three-to-four years as the companies face large underfunded pension liabilities. Changes to accounting rules enacted in 2012 will continue to impact interest rates used to calculate pension benefit obligations discount rates and will also affect reimbursements through 2017, […] More
CSRA has won a four-year, $52 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications to perform a range of technical and program support services. The company said Monday it will aid in DHS’ efforts to optimize the security, resiliency and reliability of U.S. cyber and communications infrastructure under the recompeted contract. Sally Sullivan, executive […] More
Rockwell Collins has received a $27 million contract to establish the depot capability of the HF-121C communications system and miscellaneous radio components for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The activation stage follows the assessment of the P-8A radio component depot capability and the next phase covers sustainment plan and a potential public-private partnership, Rockwell Collins […] More
The General Services Administration has awarded contracts to Schooley Caldwell Associates and Hill International for a $104 million renovation and construction project on the Thomas W.L. Ashley U.S. Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio. GSA said Friday Schooley Caldwell Associates received an architect/engineer contract to provide design management and inspection services. Hill International will serve as GSA’s subject-matter adviser and support project oversight […] More
The Washington-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has secured a potential five-year, $34 million contract from NASA to conduct studies within the domain of the space agency’s science and technology programs. NASA said Saturday the Space Studies Board indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers research designed to address various questions regarding space science, Earth science, biological and physical […] More
Vector Space Systems has secured $1.25 million in a seed funding round headed by Space Angels Network to support Vector’s development of commercial launch vehicles for low-Earth orbit microsatellites. Space Angels Network offers an online investment platform designed to help accredited investors finance aerospace companies through managed funds, Vector said Friday. Vector co-founder and CEO Jim Cantrell said the […] More
Gulfstream Aerospace has received a purchase order for the company’s G550 aircraft from Poland’s national defense ministry for use in the transport of government officials. The General Dynamics subsidiary will configure two G550 for VIP transport and deliver the aircraft in 2017, Gulfstream said Wednesday. G550 is designed to fly at altitudes higher than commercial traffic and […] More
AquaHarmonics has won a $1.5 million grand prize in the Energy Department‘s design-build-test competition that aims to support the development of wave energy converters. DoE said Wednesday CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America will receive $500,000 and $250,000 in respective cash prizes as second and third place winners of the Wave Energy Prize. “This competition set a difficult threshold […] More
The first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites launched Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:42 p.m. Eastern time. NOAA said Saturday the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the orbit within two weeks and will work to provide […] More
ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the national environmental satellite, data and information service division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for systems engineering support to NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Alaska. The company said Thursday its federal technical services subsidiary will perform the work under the NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station […] More
