ABL Space Systems has secured a Department of Defense contract to support the Defense Innovation Unit’s Responsive Launch II mission. Responsive Launch II seeks to send military payloads to their “mission-designated orbits” while reducing the risk of delays, ABL said Monday. ABL will use its RS1 launch vehicle and GS0 deployable ground systems...
Woolpert has promoted Doug Brown, a vice president, and Joseph Bissaillon, a senior associate and senior project manager, to new leadership roles within its federal market segment. Brown, who became federal design practice leader at Woolpert in August 2020, will succeed David Ziegman, a senior VP, as federal market director, the company said Friday....
Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) closed its purchase of FLIR Systems, an imaging sensors developer, a day after stockholders of both companies voted in favor of the transaction during their respective meetings. FLIR will change its name to Teledyne FLIR and will operate under Teledyne’s digital imaging segment led by Edwin Roks, a Teledyne vice p...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has proposed a set of requirements to address the panel’s national security concerns over the ownership of Mometus as part of a review process for the proposed merger between the space infrastructure services provider and Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC). Santa Clara, California-bas...
The U.S. Army has awarded a five-year, $90 million firm-fixed-price contract under which Benaka, H.V. Collins, J&J Contractors, P&S Construction, Structural Associates Inc. and Tantara Associates will compete for individual order of general construction work in Massachusetts. Each order will determine specific work location, which is within ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, talked about how the U.S. Postal Service and company collaborated to deploy a distributed edge artificial intelligence platform in an effort to streamline the identification and tracking of packages, ExecutiveBi...
Melanie Kyle Gingrich, formerly senior director of government products at recruitment company Monster Worldwide, has been named as the first vice president of training and development for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. Gingrich will oversee programs intended to educate and train contractors that want to comply wit...
Following an opening keynote address by Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, GovConWire Events moved to the second part of Wednesday’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum with a can’t miss expert panel. Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, acted as the panel’s moderator with Je...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Friday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. For today’s article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster has detailed the challenges facing supply chain executives as the compliance requi...
The State Department released a draft solicitation for a potential 10-year, $5 billion multiple-award blanket purchase agreement dubbed Access for information technology software and hardware upgrade support services, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The department’s office of information resource management plans to compete the Access BPA ...
