ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
BlueHalo has achieved a key milestone in its work under a $1.4 billion U.S. Space Force satellite communications program. The milestone, a successful demonstration of integrated backend mission services to Guardian operators, was completed at the 2024 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, BlueHalo announced on Thursday.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Godspeed Capital Management has partnered with Special Aerospace Services to establish a new platform focused on delivering space engineering, missile defense, hypersonics and communications technologies to U.S. defense and intelligence community agencies and commercial space clients.
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ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
SRC , a not-for-profit research and development company, has received a seven-year, $60 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide R&D services for avionics development. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will develop new and emerging concepts related to the development, integration, assessment, evaluation and demonstration of several technologies focusing on the electric warfare piece of the avionics.
FedScoop
APRIL 18, 2024
The White House is urging Congress to fund the Technology Modernization Fund following the release last month of an appropriations package that would rescind $100 million from the General Services Administration-run funding vehicle. “Congress, if you can hear me, please fund the TMF,” federal CIO Clare Martorana said Tuesday during an event co-hosted by Venable LLP and Trend Micro.
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GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Raft CEO Shubhi Mishra was recently presented with her 2024 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the accolade. Each year, Wash100 recognizes the most distinguished executives in the government contracting industry.
FedScoop
APRIL 18, 2024
A House panel has outlined five guardrails for deployment of artificial intelligence tools in the chamber, providing more detailed guidance as lawmakers and staff explore the technology. The Committee on House Administration released the guardrails in a “ flash report ” on Wednesday, along with an update on the committee’s work exploring AI in the legislative branch.
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ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Asset intelligence and cybersecurity company Armis has acquired for $150 million Silk Security , the developer of Silk Platform, which works to provide cyber risk prioritization and remediation. Armis said Wednesday that following the acquisition, Silk Platform will be integrated into its own artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability prioritization and remediation product called Armis Centrix.
FedScoop
APRIL 18, 2024
Public sector and commercial enterprises are ingesting ever-growing amounts of data into their enterprise operations. That’s placing greater demands on enterprise IT executives to ensure the requisite data privacy and security controls are in place and functioning effectively. At the same time, executives are also being asked to integrate smarter tools into their operations to help their employees work more productively.
Art of Procurement
APRIL 18, 2024
Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – April 19th, 2024 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Boeing has received a potential five-year, $56.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering, maintenance and instrumentation support for the service branch's fleet of F/A-18 A-F and EA-18G aircraft. Contract work will occur in Patuxent River, Maryland, through April 2029, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Information technology is a top priority for the Department of Defense, and the organization is currently working to update its software modernization strategy, according to DOD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Leslie Beavers.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Jeremy Fleming, former director of the U.K. government's intelligence and security agency Government Communications Headquarters, has been appointed as a senior adviser at enterprise software-as-a-service company SandboxAQ. He brings to the role years of leadership experience and understanding of the cybersecurity landscape, the company said Thursday.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Rick Simpson, formerly chief financial officer at CB Insights, has assumed the CFO position at Exostar, a Herndon, Virginia-headquartered provider of cloud-based secure business collaboration software.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
ICEYE has signed a definitive agreement for an oversubscribed $93 million growth funding round , bringing the company's total amount raised to $438 million. The microsatellite manufacturer and synthetic aperture radar satellite operator said Wednesday that t he fresh funds will accelerate investment in its constellation of SAR satellites and expand its product portfolio.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
The U.S. Army has started soliciting information from stakeholders to help inform its acquisition approach for the planned Army Contracting Command Enterprise for Sourcing Services procurement program, also known as ACCESS. ACCESS will be the successor to the multiple-award Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to a request for information published Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Organizations will have to augment their approaches to network traffic monitoring when they implement Transport Layer Security 1.3, according to Scott Aken , the CEO of software company Axellio. Aken explains in an opinion column published Tuesday on Security Magazine that TLS 1.3 "significantly enhances" data encryption but in so doing imposes limits on data stream decryption, making network security monitoring more difficult and potentially obscuring malware and traffic by threat actor
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Heather Newlin, a GovCon industry executive, has joined federal information technology company NuAxis Innovations as chief delivery officer. NuAxis Innovations CEO Raza Latif announced Newlin’s appointment in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Vibrint has partnered with light fidelity technology provider pureLiFi to develop a secure wireless communications capability designed to safeguard government and national security data in classified environments. Tom Lash , CEO of Vibrint, said in a statement published Wednesday the new Vibrint LiFi technology uses light waves instead of radio waves to create ultra-secure wireless data communications networks.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
One of the more ambitious missions of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent memory is its dynamic spectrum sharing, or DSS, framework. This initiative aims to identify a pathway to securely open up a spectrum band to commercial wireless users that is typically used for critical military purposes like missile deterrence.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and SES have showcased a virtualized and containerized satellite communications network for the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command. The demonstration seamlessly supported medium Earth orbit satellite operations using SES’ O3b MEO network and Kratos’ fully software-defined satellite ground OpenSpace platform in a "make-before-break" mode, Kratos said Wednesday.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Software developer Bluestaq has named Brandon Tripp, a previous director at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and former member of the Army special forces, as its new chief growth officer.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has released a draft solicitation for a potential $127 million follow-on contract to maintain a computer-generated system for managing the entire constructive modeling and simulation life cycle. PEO STRI requires software development, integration, testing, engineering releases and maintenance of the One Semi-Automated Forces program , which supports force modernization and transformation modeling and simulation i
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Crystal Hair, a cloud strategist with nearly two decades of industry experience, has been named chief technology officer at A-TEK, a McLean, Virginia-headquartered provider of information technology services to government agencies.
Scottish Government Procurement
APRIL 18, 2024
We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy note, SPPN 1/2024. This policy note supersedes previous advice contained in SPPN 6/2021 – Fair Work First implementation. Fair Work First in Procurement policy has been in place since September 2021 and this refreshed guidance has been published to support the implementation of that policy. It builds on statutory guidance published in May 2022 and is hosted on the Sustainable Procurement Tools platform.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
Paul Courtney, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a recent in-person meeting. The Wash100 Award is bestowed on the 100 individuals EM’s discerning voting body determines are the foremost change-makers in government contracting and the federal sector.
Holland & Knight: Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
Recipients of grants and other forms of federal financial assistance will soon get much-needed relief from the heavy access, administrative and compliance burdens currently imposed by the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, commonly referred to as the "Uniform Grants Guidance.
GovCon Wire
APRIL 18, 2024
An Akima subsidiary has secured a five-year, $499 million contract to provide design-build construction services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District.
Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims threw out L3Harris Technologies Inc.'s challenge to a rival's $544 million contract to build part of a weather satellite for NASA, according to a court filing.
The Coalition for Government Procurement
APRIL 18, 2024
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Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
Suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has still not proven that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act has no constitutional uses and should therefore be invalidated, the Federal Circuit's judicial council told a D.C. federal judge Thursday.
ExecutiveBiz
APRIL 18, 2024
Staying up-to-date with federal news provides government contractors with important updates on policy changes, regulations, and contract opportunities. It enables contractors to get valuable insights into emerging trends and market shifts, all of which are essential for informed decision-making and strategic planning.
Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
At the close of a trial challenging provisions of Georgia's controversial 2021 election reform law, counsel for a pair of voter engagement groups told a federal judge Thursday the state's increased restrictions on absentee ballot mailers are counterproductive efforts that continue to infringe upon the First Amendment.
Import and Trade Remedies
APRIL 18, 2024
Faced with a changing economic and regulatory landscape, multinational companies are re-evaluating their operating models in the Middle East to remain competitive and enhance performance. Successful business reorganization requires careful planning and implementation to achieve intended operational and financial objectives. Baker McKenzie is delighted to invite you to an interactive seminar at our DIFC office in Dubai on 24 April 2024, focusing on the key issues faced when reorganizing operation
Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected another protest over an up to $1 billion Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services information technology deal, saying the agency fairly assessed Spatial Front Inc.'s proposal and didn't treat the company unequally.
WIFCON: Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
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Government Contracts
APRIL 18, 2024
A health clinic manager was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $40 million in restitution to the government for participating in a multimillion-dollar healthcare kickback scheme that involved tax fraud, according to documents in a New York federal court.
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