The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit a potential 10-year, $155 million contract to provide ground-based flight and mission operations support for the Landsat 8 satellite. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also develop and integrate a Landsat multisatellite operations facility at Goddard Space Flight ...
Weekly Roundup July 17 – July 21 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Several executive moves this summer look to make a significant splash across the GovCon community. Last Friday, Battelle’s Board of Directors announced that Lewis “LouÃ...
From the drone that crashed into a San Diego Padres baseball game earlier this year and nearly hit several fans, to the drone that invaded the lawn of the White House, it is clear that there is commercial viability for options that can prevent unwanted drone trespassing, as well as a need for legislation governing their use. A re...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 11 service-disabled, veteran-owned companies positions on a potential five-year, $92.3 million contract for information technology support services to the Naval Higher Education Information Technology Consortium. The Defense Department said Friday contractors will provide IT support to NHEITC member institutions such a...
In this episode of Voices from DARPA, get inside the full-spectrum engineering head of Dr. Troy Olsson, a program manager since 2014 in the Agency™s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). Listen in as Olsson describes progress toward vanishing materials that can keep sensitive electronic components out of adversaries™ hands; unmanned air ve...
Agile Six Applications is acquiring a tiag business unit that currently offers information technology support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs through the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract. Tiag President and CEO Dalita Harmon said in a statement released Tuesday that VA will c...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJF0rG_SBOE Bladesmith and former Army Ranger Kyle Gahagan uses forging as an alternative means of therapy to help veterans with physical disabilities and those afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder at his in-home forge in Moravian Falls, N.C....
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has closed its acquisition of NES Associates in a push to help government clients accelerate adoption of new information technology platforms for their digital transformation efforts. CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior first announced the deal at the company’s 2017 fiscal-year earnings call held May 24. Prior, an in...
Weekly Roundup June 26 – June 30 2017 A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we saw the unveiling of the House Armed Services Committee™s $696.5 billion defense authorization bill. The draft, titled 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), was revealed on the 26th and asks for $28.5 billion more than ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2017 ” A team comprised of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and AT&T (NYSE: T) will help the Defense Information Systems Agency transform the Defense Department‘s network infrastructure into a software-defined network, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. “Software-defined networking is changing how enterprises conn...
