Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $297.1 million contract from NASA to oversee the development of a lightning mapping instrument called the GeoXO Lightning Mapper. NASA said Tuesday the cost-plus-award-fee contract, awarded on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, covers the production of two flight instruments ...
Philip “Duke” Labasi, an executive with more than three decades of leadership and business experience, was named executive vice president and general manager of the strategic and defense solutions business unit at Auria Space. The defense and space manufacturing company announced Labasi’s promotion via a LinkedIn post Tuesday. Laba...
The Department of Homeland Security is conducting market research in support of its Biometric Identity Research and Development program. According to a request for information notice posted on SAM.gov, DHS’ Office of Biometric Identity Management is transitioning from the hardware-based Automated Biometric Identification System to the cl...
Quantum computing is just over the horizon for the federal government, and agencies are gearing up for a future in which post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, defines information security. Moving these efforts forward is the Office of Management and Budget, which in July published a report detailing the steps federal organizations must take to imp...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded 85 companies positions on the potential 10-year, $11.9 billion J6 Enterprise Technology Services 2.0 contract to provide information technology support services for DLA and other Department of Defense components. DOD said Tuesday the DLA Contracting Services Office in Philadelphia received 259 offers through ...
Government technology company Raft has appointed business development executive William “Bill” Bal as senior vice president of growth and human resources executive Danielle McCoy as chief people officer. Raft said Tuesday Bal will oversee the company’s business strategy, spearhead new business opportunities, promote collaborative l...
MITRE has booked a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $541.3 million to provide support to the National Security Engineering Center. The Department of Defense said Monday the contractor will continue serving as the administrator of the federally funded research and development center for another year. Under the cost-reimbursement option contract...
Mac Curtis, chairman of the board at Cubic Corporation, has been appointed by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to serve a four-year term on the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority’s board of directors. Also referred to as the Virginia Spaceport Authority, the VCSFA is a state organization focused on expanding access to space f...
By Ron Lear, Vice President of Models and Frameworks at ISACA The Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, has grown and evolved quite a bit in its 30-plus-year history. Tracing CMMI’s roots back to the Software CMM first released in 1991 for the Department of Defense, CMMI set the bar for process improvement and is...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a potential five-year, $140 million recompete task order to provide operational safety, suitability and engineering support services for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The company said Monday it will continue to conduct research and analyses to develop recommendations to help ensure interoperability, life cy...
