TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 1, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, president of Nvidia‘s (Nasdaq: NVDA) North American public sector business, pointed to predictive maintenance and humanitarian assistance as examples of artificial intelligence applications at the Department of Defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 17. Robbins, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, told Fe...
Small satellite launch services provider Rocket Lab is close to finalizing an estimated $4.1 billion agreement with a Vector Capital-backed special purpose acquisition company to merge operations, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Rocket Lab would go public if the company combines with Vector Acquisition (Nasdaq: VACQ), which the former expec...
Encantado Technical Solutions, a joint venture of ECS and Edgewater Federal Solutions, has received a blanket purchase agreement worth approximately $400 million to $700 million to provide information technology and telecommunications support for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Encantado will work with subcontractors Amentum...
Carahsoft Technology has received a blanket purchase agreement under the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Software Initiative to provide government, defense and intelligence community customers with access to key software and information technology offerings. Carahsoft said Thursday the BPA comes as part of the company’s Federal Supply Sch...
Alefiyah Mesiwala, a former White House senior policy adviser on health care, has been named chief medical officer of Humana’s military subsidiary in a move slated to take effect March 15. She will be responsible for directing clinical support and medical management work and ensuring care delivery to beneficiaries under the Defense Health Agen...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $146.3 million to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain a relocatable over-the-horizon radar system that supports the U.S. government’s counter narco-terrorism operations. The company’s intelligence and space business will perform ROTHR operation and maintenance work ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will continue to help the U.S. Space Force and Space Command maintain infrastructure for monitoring assets in orbit as part of an $89 million option award under the potential 10-year, $1.2 billion Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities contract. The company said Thursday the award represe...
Cubic (NYSE: CUB) will design, develop and test training materials for the U.S. Navy’s Relevant Ready Learning program under a potential four-year, $92.4 million contract. The company will also help the service branch prepare course pilot and train-the-trainer programs as part of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Depart...
Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, chief of space operations at the U.S. Space Force and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said the service plans to further develop deeper relationships with the commercial industry and wants the latter to play a bigger role in its missions, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “If you look at historically what has been...
Seventeen companies have won one-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide various fuel types at designated locations across the U.S. DLA’s energy division received 28 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award through a competitive acquisition process and will obligate fiscal 2021 through 2022 defense working cap...
