BlackSky Holdings, a Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider, has received an equity investment from Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) to enable it to meet the customers’ demand for global monitoring services and further expand its capabilities. BlackSky said Wednesday it will also broaden the delivery of deep analytics and high-...
Analogic has secured a $198.4 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration for the procurement of mid-size computed tomography systems that the agency needs to increase aviation threat detection capabilities. According to a SAM notice posted Thursday, the firm-fixed-price order was awarded under a basic ordering agreement in supp...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Ball Aerospace has won positions on a $200 million multiple-award contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop technologies to avoid a cyber attack on military avionics systems. The two companies will conduct research and development efforts with the goal of identifying and mitigating cyber vulnerabi...
Two Six Technologies has purchased Trusted Concepts for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its talent base, software offerings and capabilities and broaden relationships with intelligence community clients. Herndon, Virginia-based Trusted Concepts operates with over 130 employees and has been providing software engineering, analytics, c...
David Feinberg, formerly the vice president of Google’s health business, has been appointed to serve as president, CEO and a board member of health information technology provider Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN). The 25-year industry veteran will succeed Brent Shafer as CEO and Donald Trigg as president of Cerner effective Oct. 1, the company said Thur...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer of Technomile, published his second article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Last week, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an informative guide into the contract lifecycle management of contract professionals in the federal landscape today in part one of this feature. On Thursday, Fo...
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DELL) federal systems business, said government agencies seeking to achieve digital resiliency should establish a digital workplace that enables employees to work and meet agencies’ mission from anywhere. “User experience and productivi...
Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. He talked about his growth strategy for GDMS and provided details about the current challenges and opportunities in the government contracting (GovCon) sector a...
The General Services Administration has sought information on vendors that are capable to provide professional services in support of governmentwide program management offices, councils and other governmentwide initiatives as part of efforts to improve information technology spending transparency. GSA is seeking program and program administration su...
Eleven companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $702.2 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide office document management systems and services to U.S. military branches. The contractors are eligible to lease A3, A4 and multifunction printing machines for up to 60 months under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantit...
