NASA has awarded $146 million in contracts to five companies to develop lunar lander design concepts, perform risk reduction activities and offer feedback to inform requirements for a future solicitation on industry capabilities that could help facilitate regular manned missions to the moon under the space agency’s Artemis program. Blue Origin, Le...
SpaceX has secured a potential $152.5 million contract from NASA to launch the fourth and final spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, the space agency’s collaborative acquisition program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA said Saturday it expects the company’s Falcon He...
Lionel “Lee” Vigue, a three-decade U.S. Navy veteran, has joined B3 Group as lead for the information technology consulting firm’s cybersecurity practice. Vigue most recently served as cybersecurity solutions branch chief at the Navy and brings 20 years of government IT experience at the federal and state levels to his new position, B3 Gro...
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded several companies contracts worth more than $100 million combined to build technologies that could help reduce aircraft’s fuel consumption, noise and emissions. FAA said Friday the awards are part of the third phase of the agency’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise program, a public-priv...
REI Systems has received a $250 million single-award contract to help the Health Resources and Services Administration modernize a system used to manage agency grant programs and awards. The company said Thursday it will update data analysis, dashboard and performance reporting tools for the agency’s grant management platform as part of the fi...
Government contractors came from private companies that manufacture goods and services for government establishments. This group of people is like government organizations that come in different shapes and sizes. A group of government contracting companies is hired by the government when their contracts win through bidding. U.S Government contracts ...
Traditional and nontraditional contractors play an essential role in the Department of Defense’s experimentation program aimed at testing dual-use applications of fifth generation wireless communications technology at military installations. Joseph Evans, who recently stepped down as principal director for 5G at the Office of the Under Secreta...
James “Jim” Hutcherson, a Salesforce trainer for public and academic institutions, has been named vice president of cloud platform solutions at B3 Group, a Herndon, Virginia-based information technology consulting firm providing digital services to federal government and enterprise customers. He oversees B3 Group’s cloud governance and strateg...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2021 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Thursday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. Koster provides insight into the Gauge Report’s findings that explore the best practices and benchmarks of the government contr...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has received a five-year, $69 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development to collect data from population-based surveys in multiple countries. The global consulting company said Wednesday that it will utilize information-gathering, analysis and monitoring tools to help USAID track countries’ perform...
