NASA has awarded spots on a potential five-year, $300 million contract to nine companies to perform architectural and engineering work at the space agency’s facilities and infrastructure within the southeastern U.S. Contractors will support agency projects under the Architect-Engineer Services for the Design and Other Professional Services Nec...
Sean Maday, cloud engineering manager at Google, said government agencies looking to experience the benefits of multicloud environments should empower innovators within their organizations. He wrote that multicloud platforms could enable agencies to manage, store and analyze data to generate insights and facilitate the decision-making process while ...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has acquired Tracepoint, a digital forensics and incident response support provider, for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity platforms and services and advance its entry into critical technology areas as part of a capital deployment strategy. Tracepoint is a Fredericksburg, Virginia-based compa...
The Department of Defense has unveiled a program that seeks to provide government funding to startups working on hardware technologies that could have national security and commercial applications, DOD News reported Monday. The National Security Innovation Capital program looks for tech startups across the U.S. to help them further develop and comme...
Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) will operate and maintain dark fiber infrastructure for the Defense Department under a potential seven-year, $196.5 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency. An initial task order under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover the $1,000 minimum guarantee, DOD s...
Fairbanks Morse Defense has purchased Hunt Valve Company, a provider of valves and electromechanical actuators for naval platforms, in a move to expand product offerings for shipyard operators and defense customers. FMD said Monday the deal includes the Hunt Valve, MB Valve, Hunt Valve Actuator Division and Pima Valve brands. Hunt Valve manufactures...
C3 AI (NYSE: AI) has secured a production other transaction agreement from the Missile Defense Agency to develop an artificial intelligence application for modeling and simulating a hypersonic missile’s flight path. The Redwood, California-based company said Monday it aims to help the MDA to create physically realistic trajectories and large t...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said DOD’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 will offer details on how the U.S. military will spend on efforts to mitigate climate change, Defense News reported Thursday. “We are definitely looking at that both in our strategy development efforts...
The research arm of the U.S. Air Force has released a presolicitation notice for a program aimed at enabling autonomous electromagnetic warfare operations through artificial intelligence or machine learning-powered collection and analysis of on-board data in real time. According to the notice of contract action posted Thursday on SAM.gov, Project Ka...
Bluestone Investment Partners has invested in cBEYONData, a professional services company that primarily offers business process automation, data management and analytics support to government chief financial officers. “With this investment, we have the additional resources necessary to expand our product offerings and deliver on the evolving need...
