Blue Origin and U.S. Transportation Command have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to study the potential use of its commercial rockets in transporting cargo and personnel, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. TRANSCOM, which is responsible for military logistics operations worldwide, also signed CRADAs with SpaceX and Exploration Arc...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, is scheduled to deliver an opening keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. She acts as the chief technology officer for DOD and oversees department-wide resear...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will work on the development, test and delivery of two six-foot-long robotic arms to the Defense Innovation Unit for use during in-space assembly activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. “Robotics will play a key role in humankind’s further development of space, and Maxar loo...
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking white papers for a five-year program that seeks to transform air operations planning by combining interactive gaming with planning driven by artificial intelligence to reduce the planning cycle for air tasking orders. The Fight Tonight broad agency announcement has a ceiling value of approximately $99 mil...
Shareholders at blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) approved Tuesday the proposed merger with Virgin Orbit and both parties expect the transaction to close before the end of December. The combined entity will adopt the name Virgin Orbit Holdings and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “VORB” upon closing of the...
Teleperformance has acquired Kentucky-based business process outsourcing company Senture from investment firm Kingswood Capital Management for approximately $400 million. Eighty percent of sales at Senture come from the company’s business unit that provides contact center support services to federal, state and local governments, Teleperformanc...
Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai, said government agencies looking to streamline the training and deployment of artificial intelligence models should adopt a turnkey AI technology platform that can scale in response to their needs. AI “needs to continually get smarter by interacting with real-world data,” Zeiler wrote. “That’s why ce...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer of the U.S. Space Force, as the keynote speaker at a Jan. 13 virtual forum to offer the government contracting community an insight into digital modernization efforts at the Department of Defense. Costa was appointed to her current role in ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — LMI will help the Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence-focused arm migrate data on military weapon systems and equipment from the company-built Maintenance and Availability Data Warehouse to the Advana enterprise platform as part of a 1-year, $1.5 million contract award, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec...
Joseph Gurney, formerly a senior adviser for fiscal stewardship at the Veterans Benefits Administration, has joined B3 Group as a director for the company’s professional services business. He will oversee a portfolio of professional and infrastructure service offerings intended to support modernization projects at the Department of Veterans Af...
