Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, is scheduled to deliver an opening keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. She acts as the chief technology officer for DOD and oversees department-wide resear...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will work on the development, test and delivery of two six-foot-long robotic arms to the Defense Innovation Unit for use during in-space assembly activities, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. “Robotics will play a key role in humankind’s further development of space, and Maxar loo...
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking white papers for a five-year program that seeks to transform air operations planning by combining interactive gaming with planning driven by artificial intelligence to reduce the planning cycle for air tasking orders. The Fight Tonight broad agency announcement has a ceiling value of approximately $99 mil...
Shareholders at blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) approved Tuesday the proposed merger with Virgin Orbit and both parties expect the transaction to close before the end of December. The combined entity will adopt the name Virgin Orbit Holdings and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “VORB” upon closing of the...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer of the U.S. Space Force, as the keynote speaker at a Jan. 13 virtual forum to offer the government contracting community an insight into digital modernization efforts at the Department of Defense. Costa was appointed to her current role in ...
A Bechtel subsidiary will continue to manufacture naval nuclear propulsion components for the U.S. Navy under a pair of contract modifications worth $872 million combined. Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate to Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. the full amount of the first award totaling nearly $622 million, the Department of Defense said Monday. The...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — Cognosante will work over a potential 10-year period to implement and maintain Enterprise Cloud Fax services across the Department of Veterans Affairs under a $110 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 16. Erick Peters, chief technology officer at Cognosante, said the company’s engineering, develop...
ExecutiveBiz featured Victor Leviste, vice president of strategy and business development with CAES, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He shared his growth strategy, the company’s push into space technology, satellites constellations and other new markets, as well as the upcoming launch of the CAES Additive Man...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a request for information on potential vendors that could help update a system that helps authorized government users access data from multiple security domains. AFRL will accept responses to the Engineering for Virtualized Enterprise and Remote Access Technology market research through Jan. 14. The labor...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will continue to help the U.S. Army install turbine engines on AH-64E Apache military helicopters under a five-year, $239.6 million contract. The service branch obligated $18 million at the time of award for Apache Improved Turbine Engine Integration Phase II work using fiscal 2021 and 2022 research, development, test and evaluatio...
