The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is developing a process to align commercial technology requirements across the U.S. intelligence community and avoid unnecessary duplication of procurement efforts, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Frank Avila, deputy director of commercial and business operations at NGA, said the agency will collect informat...
For the Social Security Administration, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was the impetus for a much-needed digital transformation that has ushered the agency into a new era of speed, accuracy and efficiency. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, Sean Brune, SSA’s chief information o...
Software as a service company Hypori has secured an investment from David Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general and former director of the CIA. Jared Shepard, president and CEO of Hypori, said in a statement published Wednesday the support from Petraeus, who champions defense technological innovation, underscores the company’s efforts to provi...
The Department of the Navy has awarded five companies positions on a five-year, $999.6 million contract vehicle for financial, accounting and business process services. DON will obligate a total of $250,000 to the awardees to cover the minimum amount of its Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity cont...
Kevin O’Connell, former director in the Office of Space Commerce, has joined the advisory board of digital platform provider Copernic Space, SpaceNews reported Friday. He will provide advice to the Copernic Space leadership on sector matters as the company aims to standardize an electronic interface for investors and customers to trade space-r...
Alexander Gates, a four-decade military and civil service veteran, has been named chief research officer at Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity company Shift5. Gates will manage a threat intelligence portfolio designed to help transportation and defense system operators gain visibility of secure operational technology networks, Shift5 said Thurs...
Six companies have received $278.5 million in agreements from NASA to build and demonstrate space communication services as the agency moves to decommission its fleet of near-Earth satellites. Inmarsat’s U.S. government arm, Kuiper Government Solutions, SES Government Solutions, Telesat U.S. Services, SpaceX and Viasat are expected to complete dev...
GovCon Wire Events will feature Ed Mornston, director of intelligence and security at the Army Futures Command; and Joseph Rouge, deputy director of ISR at the U.S. Space Force, as panelists at a virtual event scheduled for Wednesday. Brian Keller, vice president and Army strategic account executive at Leidos, will moderate the panel discussion as...
NASA has started a market research effort with the goal of identifying companies and universities with the capacity to design high-speed commercial vehicle systems and develop technology roadmaps to support the baseline vehicle concepts. The agency said Wednesday in a sources sought notice that it envisions a design study project that would initiall...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is deepening its partnership with industry as space-based imagery and intelligence becomes more vital to the evolving situation in Ukraine. Specifically, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has significantly increased its acquisition of electro-optical technology from commercial companies like BlackSky, M...
