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  • GSA Adds Verizon’s Fleet Management Software to Multiple Award Schedule Program
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    GSA Adds Verizon’s Fleet Management Software to Multiple Award Schedule Program

    The General Services Administration has made Verizon‘s fleet management software platform available to government agencies through its Multiple Award Schedule program. Verizon Connect Reveal is designed to help organizations track and analyze fleet data such as fuel consumption, drivers’ behavior and vehicle location and maintenance, the company announced Thursday. “Whether it’s more efficient routes, driver […] More

  • Orion Team to Help Build Digital Twin System for NOAA Earth Observations
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    Orion Team to Help Build Digital Twin System for NOAA Earth Observations

    Orion Space Solutions will collaborate with Booz Allen Hamilton and the National Center for Atmospheric Research on a project to develop an Earth observation data processing technology platform for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The partnership will apply digital twin and artificial intelligence approaches in an effort to create a one-stop system for the […] More

  • CTC Secures State Funding for Tech Development; Ed Sheehan Quoted
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    CTC Secures State Funding for Tech Development; Ed Sheehan Quoted

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. will work on developing advanced manufacturing technologies under a Pennsylvania state agency funding worth $1.9 million, which aims to benefit the state’s economy and national security. The grant will support CTC’s efforts to validate the feasibility of utilizing patented high-temperature technology for the extraction of rare earth elements from coal-based sources.  The […] More

  • Lockheed’s Robert Lightfoot on Promoting Partnerships With Smaller Space Companies
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    Lockheed’s Robert Lightfoot on Promoting Partnerships With Smaller Space Companies

    Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space division, said the aerospace and defense company aims to enter into partnerships with smaller space technology developers to speed up engineering and manufacturing efforts, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Speaking at the Satellite Innovation conference in California, the former NASA acting administrator said Lockheed partners and invests in […] More

  • 8 Teams to Develop Computer Security Tools Under DARPA Program
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    8 Teams to Develop Computer Security Tools Under DARPA Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight teams for a new program that aims to develop practical tools and approaches to anticipate and mitigate emergent behaviors of modern computer systems that can pose vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. DARPA said Thursday the three-phase Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines program seeks to enhance […] More

  • Nokia, ESnet Unveil DOE’s Next-Gen Network for Scientific Research; Mike Loomis Quoted
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    Nokia, ESnet Unveil DOE’s Next-Gen Network for Scientific Research; Mike Loomis Quoted

    Nokia and the Energy Sciences Network of the Department of Energy have launched a next-generation internet protocol network, dubbed ESnet6, designed to enable U.S. and international research institutions to process and share large volumes of research data produced by experiments and simulations. ESnet6 uses Nokia’s 7750 Service Router platforms to provide up to 400 Gigabytes […] More

  • Radisys Takes 2 Prizes in Federal 5G Challenge’s Final Phase
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    Radisys Takes 2 Prizes in Federal 5G Challenge’s Final Phase

    An interoperable open radio access network system developed by Radisys has won top prizes in the third and final stage of the Federal 5G Challenge. Radisys’ technology received the Best Software Bill of Materials award and Network Integration Prize for its distributed unit, the company said Thursday. The competition is an initiative of the National […] More

  • Khalid Syed: Booz Allen to Help Advance JADC2 With MDK Demo at Army’s Project Convergence 2022
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    Khalid Syed: Booz Allen to Help Advance JADC2 With MDK Demo at Army’s Project Convergence 2022

    Khalid Syed, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a leader within the company’s global defense sector, said the company will join other industry partners, academic institutions and military services to demonstrate technologies at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2022 as part of efforts to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. […] More

  • Planet Federal Receives NASA Contract Extension for Satellite Data Access
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    Planet Federal Receives NASA Contract Extension for Satellite Data Access

    Planet Labs’ federal subsidiary has secured a contract extension from NASA to give scientists and researchers continued access to its satellite imaging data. The contract extension allows over 300,000 scientists and researchers, who are funded by the National Science Foundation and federal civilian agencies, to use the company’s data through September 2023 for studies on changing […] More

  • Axon to Equip VA Police With Law Enforcement Tech Under $60M IDIQ
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    Axon to Equip VA Police With Law Enforcement Tech Under $60M IDIQ

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $60 million contract to Axon to provide the VA Police with in-car and body cameras and software technology. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract provides for Axon’s Fleet 3 in-car cameras, Body 3 cameras and automated license plate reader powered by artificial intelligence technology, the company announced Thursday. Veterans integrated […] More

  • Military Vet Charles Whitaker Assumes Strategy VP Post at Barbaricum
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    Military Vet Charles Whitaker Assumes Strategy VP Post at Barbaricum

    Charles Whitaker, a U.S. Army veteran with over 30 years of military and industry experience, was named as vice president of strategy at service-disabled veteran-owned small business Barbaricum. In this role, Whitaker will steer the government contracting company’s global strategy to support warfighters, Barbaricum said Thursday. Whitaker was recently the chief operating officer at METIS […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Dan Corbett, CEO of Valiant Integrated Services
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    Executive Spotlight: Dan Corbett, CEO of Valiant Integrated Services

    Dan Corbett, CEO of Valiant Integrated Services, spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how the company is establishing significant partnerships to drive its growth in new markets as well as how its workforce is being driven for long-term success in the highly competitive federal market during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with Dan Corbett below. […] More