Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin and Nanoracks have received contracts worth $415.6 million combined from NASA to design space-based facilities for low Earth orbit. The Space Act Agreements come as the agency is looking to retire the International Space Station and transition to newer commercially developed facilities that could be accessible to both p...
Eddie Morris, a nearly 25-year veteran of NCI Information Systems, has been named vice president of strategic pricing and profitability at Arlington, Virginia-based technology services provider Excella. He will be responsible for ensuring that Excella’s artificial intelligence and agile transformation service offerings are appropriate and alig...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $46.9 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 connectivity. DISA received four offers for the single-award Commercial Ethernet Gateway...
Launch services provider Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has completed its stock-and-cash acquisition of Silver Spring, Maryland-based spacecraft separation technology developer Planetary Systems Corp. The transaction — which was first announced in November — comprises $42 million in cash, 1.72 million shares from Rocket Lab’s common...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has closed its approximately $161.2 million cash-and-stock purchase of exactEarth, a provider of satellite data products and services to the global maritime sector. Vienna, Virginia-based Spire first announced the deal in September, which marks its first acquisition after going public in mid-August, and the company said Tue...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Brian Reed, chief mobility officer at NowSecure, said government agencies should have programs in place to facilitate continuous monitoring of mobile applications to detect and address vulnerabilities that could pose security risks to employees and data. Reed wrote that agencies should commit to ensuring the security of mobile apps and establish mis...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
A partnership between Amentum and Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has won a potential $28 billion contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to manage and operate the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas. The 10-year contract to Nuclear Production One covers a five-year base period of performance and five one-y...
