The Space Development Agency has indicated its intent to acquire launch services for a planned network of low-Earth orbit military communications satellites through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program. A special notice posted Monday on SAM.gov states the agency could remove language pertaining to “contractor procure...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), on Tuesday during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is an annual honor given to the elite members of the GovCon...
As government contractors continue to heavily invest in technology to better discover, research, qualify and bid on government solicitations, the know-how to successfully evolve underlying business processes is of the highest importance for the success of any technology investment. Private sector leaders must learn how to mature the capture pr...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three companies positions on a $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various types of commercial metal products to U.S. military branches as part of DLA’s Metals Tailored Logistics Support program. DLA received six responses for the competitive acquisition program and s...
Udaya Chundury, former chief technologist of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined information technology services provider MetroStar as vice president of solutions architecture. The 25-year management and IT consulting veteran will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of business platforms that involve big data, analytics cloud and enterp...
NASA has issued a draft request for proposals for a contracting opportunity to provide highly specialized operations support to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and its affiliated organizations, according to a notice posted on SAM.gov. The agency plans to select multiple companies to assist the JSC Flight Operations Directorate in ...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
Shield AI has acquired Heron Systems for an undisclosed sum to further expand its artificial intelligence engineering and reinforcement learning capabilities. Heron Systems is a software company founded in 1993 and is known for developing an AI pilot that emerged undefeated against a human Air Force F-16 fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air...
Spatial data company Matterport will start trading Friday on Nasdaq under the symbol “MTTR” after it completed its merger with special purpose acquisition company Gores Holdings VI (Nasdaq: GHVI). Sunnyvale, California-based Matterport said Thursday it has secured approximately $605 million in total cash as a result of the combination, including...
Michael Witt, formerly a corporate director at chemical company Dow, will officially join Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) on Aug. 9 to serve as vice president and chief sustainability officer. He will oversee Northrop’s carbon reduction activities, resource efficiency efforts and other initiatives aimed to promote environmental sustainability, th...
