NASA has started its formal solicitation for a new round of commercial services to conduct human landing system maturation and risk reduction work to help inform future routine crewed transportation from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface. The agency said Thursday it will award milestone-based contracts worth up to $45 million to each company t...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business a potential 10-year, $71.6 million contract to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and connect mission partners to the Department of Defense Information Network as part of work in Region 5 of the Commercial Ethernet Gateway program. The...
Sabra Horne, former chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s innovation hub, has been named an entrepreneur in residence at Palo Alto, California-based technology incubator BMNT, FedScoop reported Monday. She will help oversee BMNT’s artificial intelligence-driven InsightAI program that works to analyze data from ...
Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business has won a potential 10-year, $84.16 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and provide mission partners access to the Department of Defense Information Network through ethernet connections. DISA received six offers for the sin...
NASA has started its search for additional U.S. companies that are willing to transport private astronauts to the International Space Station on two separate short-duration missions slated to occur in the 2022-2023 timeframe. These two new flight opportunities for the private sector came one month after NASA and Axiom Space signed an agreement to co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2021 — Aaron Burciaga, vice president of artificial intelligence at ECS, said a responsible approach to AI product development could encourage federal agencies to adopt the technology for data science applications, ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. “The introduction of new AI/ML models within federal operations demand...
Digital engineering firm JHNA has expanded its capabilities and support in the Navy segment through its acquisition of Technology Security Associates. TSA is an engineering services firm that provides cybersecurity, anti-tamper, security systems engineering, supply chain risk management and platform security services to help Naval Air Systems Comman...
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) will provide software licenses and information technology products and services under a potential five-year, $2.49 billion blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Navy. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego received two proposals for the single-award BPA that was awarded through the Department of D...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has agreed to buy Halfaker and Associates for approximately $250 million in cash to expand its portfolio of health information technology offerings. SAIC said Thursday it will use its existing cash on hand and incremental debt to fund the acquisition that is expected to conclude by the end of...
Keith Nakasone, former deputy assistant commissioner of acquisition management within the information technology office at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will join VMware (NYSE: VMW) in mid-June as a federal strategist, FedScoop reported Wednesday. He brings 32 years of government service experience to his n...
