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  • ICF Books Reclamation Bureau Project Support Contract; Anne Choate Quoted
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    ICF Books Reclamation Bureau Project Support Contract; Anne Choate Quoted

    ICF has received a $15 million contract to perform environmental consulting work for California-based water infrastructure projects managed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation. The four-year contract entails compliance, modeling and analytical services to support the agency’s operational oversight of Central Valley and State Water projects in the state, ICF said Tuesday. […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Randy Crow, General Manager at Dragos
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    Executive Spotlight: Randy Crow, General Manager at Dragos

    Randy Crow, general manager at Dragos, spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the core values that are important to the company’s successful culture and the significant ways the organization is advancing the contract bidding process as well as his advice on how career military personnel can make the transition into the public or private sectors during the latest Executive Spotlight […] More

  • DOD’s David Honey Discusses How CHIPS Act & Lab-to-Fab Concept Will Boost US Microelectronics Research
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    DOD’s David Honey Discusses How CHIPS Act & Lab-to-Fab Concept Will Boost US Microelectronics Research

    The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 represents a major milestone in the United States’ efforts to revitalize domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing and re-establish our nation as a microelectronics powerhouse on the world stage.  The Department of Defense’s Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Dr. David Honey, called the CHIPS Act a “hugely important […] More

  • Leidos Awarded $1.5B DOD Task Order for C5ISR Tech Implementation; Gerry Fasano Quoted
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    Leidos Awarded $1.5B DOD Task Order for C5ISR Tech Implementation; Gerry Fasano Quoted

    Leidos, a contracting company specializing in defense, aviation and information technology services, has won a potential five-year, $1.5 billion task order from the Department of Defense for joint forces technology support. The innovation-focused Sentinel award charges Leidos with developing and installing new command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions throughout the gamut […] More

  • A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Michael Hayden of The Chertoff Group
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    A ‘Good Scout’ Makes a Great Leader: Michael Hayden of The Chertoff Group

    Michael Hayden, a principal at global advisory services firm The Chertoff Group, was honored by the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America with the Technology Good Scout Award in November 2016. At Chertoff, the retired four-star general is focused on technological intelligence and counterintelligence, global political and terrorist risk analysis as […] More

  • IARPA Enlists 6 Teams for Intell Data Analytics Tech Project
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    IARPA Enlists 6 Teams for Intell Data Analytics Tech Project

    Six private and educational organizations have received contracts from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to design computer-based data analytic architectures. IARPA said Monday contractors for the Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment program will explore mechanisms to help government analysts access, transfer and store different streams of complex data. Intel Federal, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm […] More

  • Raytheon, Army Test Counter-Drone Tech ‘LIDS’
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    Raytheon, Army Test Counter-Drone Tech ‘LIDS’

    Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business and the U.S. Army demonstrated the capabilities of LIDS, a counter-unmanned aircraft system platform, during the service’s summer test period. LIDS stands for Low, slow, small UAS Integrated Defeat System and is an Army-developed platform composed of Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor or KuRFS and Coyote family of effectors from […] More

  • Quantifind to Develop Open-Source Threat Intelligence Platform for DOD
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    Quantifind to Develop Open-Source Threat Intelligence Platform for DOD

    Data platform developer Quantifind has secured a five-year, $23.7 million contract from the Department of Defense to manufacture an open-source threat intelligence platform.  The other transaction agreement covers the production of GraphyteSearch, an artificial intelligence-powered knowledge graph technology that analyzes structured and unstructured data to reveal risks associated with malign networks, Quantifind said Monday. GraphyteSearch […] More

  • Kaman to Provide Marine Corps With Autonomous Logistics Aerial Vehicle
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    Kaman to Provide Marine Corps With Autonomous Logistics Aerial Vehicle

    Kaman‘s air vehicles division will construct a military prototype of its KARGO unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps to support its logistics operations in austere environments.  Kaman Air Vehicles will employ parallel testing for the prototype’s autonomy system courtesy of Near Earth Autonomy, the aerospace company said Monday.  The unit will also work […] More

  • Palantir Added to DOD IL6 Accredited List of Cloud Services
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    Palantir Added to DOD IL6 Accredited List of Cloud Services

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Impact Level 6 provisional authorization to Palantir Technologies’ Federal Cloud Service. IL6 accreditation allows Palantir to add a secret region to its cloud platform, supporting Top Secret defense and national security missions of the Department of Defense and other federal entities, the company said Monday. PFCS, which met […] More

  • Leidos Partnership Completes Latest MHS Genesis Deployment Wave; Liz Porter Quoted
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    Leidos Partnership Completes Latest MHS Genesis Deployment Wave; Liz Porter Quoted

    A defense health-focused partnership led by Leidos has deployed the U.S. military’s new electronic health record system to 18 Military Treatment Facility Commands across six states. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health delivered the Military Health System Genesis system to 10,000 new users in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina as part of […] More

  • HII, Markesman Form Tuple JV Via SBA Mentor-Protege Program; Grant Hagen Quoted
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    HII, Markesman Form Tuple JV Via SBA Mentor-Protege Program; Grant Hagen Quoted

    HII and Markesman Group have established a joint venture through the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program to advance the delivery of cybersecurity platforms to defense market customers. The two companies said Monday they will work together under the business name Tuple and support the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity mission by combining HII’s experience in the […] More