Hector Collazo, vice president of mission technology and innovations at Sev1Tech since March, has been elevated to the chief technology officer role. He will oversee the company’s high-impact technology, science and engineering team and manage the delivery of new technologies to commercial customers, Sev1Tech said Thursday. Prior to joining Sev1Te...
The U.S. Army’s Capability Sets were introduced in 2021 in order to lay out a roadmap for maintaining a modern, technologically advanced service branch that will be prepared for any challenges adversaries could bring their way. The Capability Sets are mission protocols designed to be completed and phased out every two years. This effort began wit...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $91.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modifications, maintenance and depot-level support for the AN/AQS-20 sonar mine-hunting system and AN/MHP-20 deploy and retrieve platform. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base per...
Ten years ago, the U.S. Army was notorious for being a “deliberate late adopter” of technology. The Army carried a well-known reputation of risk aversion — an approach which often placed the service branch several years behind the power curve. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo, who was sworn into the role in February, is changing that narrat...
Andy Murphy, head of customer engineering for federal civilian agencies at Google, said government agencies looking to meet their modernization objectives, take advantage of new technical capabilities and accomplish their missions should adopt cloud computing technologies. “Cloud providers can often develop and release a new feature or service lon...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started buying weather data from satellite companies Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and GeoOptics and kicked off testing data from a third company in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. GeoOptics and Spire were two of the three companies that secured contracts from NOAA in July to supply s...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Astrobotic Technology and Honeybee Robotics have been shortlisted from an initial roster of five companies to continue developing vertically deployable solar array systems meant for use on robotic and human missions to explore the moon. The downselected entities will receive $19.4 million in total funds to build prototyp...
Advanced Systems and Software Engineering Technologies has won a potential $292.3 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop manned and unmanned aircraft capabilities. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California, is the contracting activity and received three offers for the small business set-aside indefinite-delivery...
Nicole Piasecki Kymeta has announced the appointment of aerospace industry veteran Nicole Piasecki to the board of directors and Fran Beaudette, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, to the board of advisers. Piasecki has more than 35 years of experience at Boeing (NYSE: BA) and United Technologies Corp. and her appointment comes following the ret...
Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) booked a $99 million order during the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal year to supply Joint Tactical Radio System terminals to the U.S. Navy. The order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command is part of a potential $998 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in May 2020, the company said Monday...
