TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 26, 2017 ” Peraton will vie for work to perform technology-based services for emergency response management as part of the U.S. Army‘s Deployable Adaptive Global Responder Support program, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 17. The company said Oct. 17 it will provide the services through its position under ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 26, 2017 ” In-Q-Tel has invested in artificial intelligence company Primer in efforts to deliver AI technologies that will work to support analysts in the government, financial and retail sectors, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. IQT said Tuesday the strategic investment agreement aims to utilize Primer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 24, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has collaborated with the California Polytechnic State University to open a transformation hub that will work to utilize cloud technologies to help the government, nonprofit and education sectors drive digital transformation, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The university ...
Laura Grant, head of digital innovation for public sector at SAP (NYSE: SAP), has said government agencies seeking to generate insights from large datasets and accelerate the decision-making process should share and layer data at granular levels. Grant wrote that machine learning and predictive analytics are among the technology platf...
The State Department has cleared Czech Republic™s request to buy 12 UH-1Y utility helicopters and related equipment and services from the U.S. government under a potential $575 million foreign military sales agreement. Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary and General Electric (NYSE: GE) will act as principal cont...
Redwood City, California-based government budgeting systems provider OpenGov has purchased Berkeley, California-based technology company Peak Democracy for an undisclosed amount in a move to expand its citizen engagement platforms for the government sector. OpenGov said Friday it will integrate Peak Democracy™s Open Town Hall offering with its ...
Weekly Roundup October 16 – October 20 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson™s remarks from Potomac Officers Club Space Summit Air Force taps Orbital ATK for rocket motor tech IDIQ contract Pratt &...
SpaceX has secured a $97 million contract from NASA to launch a satellite that will work to continue a long-term effort to measure the height of the global sea surface. NASA said Friday it expects the Sentinel-6A spacecraft to lift off by November 2020 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 roc...
The U.S. Army has awarded separate contracts to four companies to develop concept designs that will be used to determine the requirements for a new platform to replace its Patriot air-and-missile defense radar system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Contract recipients include Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Gr...
24th Secretary of the U.S. Air Force HEATHER WILSON on early US space programs: “…We built a glass house in a time of stones…” Land, air, sea–space. Space is becoming–has become–a contested domain for mankind and generations to come. The work done with the military across various agencies on integrating and ...
