The Energy Department has issued a request for proposals on a potential $1.8 billion effort to build at least two exascale computing machines for national laboratories within the 2021-2023 time frame. DOE said Monday it seeks new supercomputers for installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Lawrence Livermore National ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $247.5 million contract to design, build and test a supersonic aircraft for NASA. NASA said Tuesday the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract calls for the development of a Low-Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, dubbed X-plane, designed to travel at a speed of about 940 miles per hour at 55,...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential 14-year, $117 million task order to build a seventh-generation geostationary Earth orbit satellite in support of the Federal Aviation Administration™s Wide Area Augmentation System. WAAS works to augment the GPS Standard Positioning Service to ensure the safety of flight operations, the company said ...
Terri Thomas, a federal market veteran with more than 20 years of proposal management experience, has been named director of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International‘s Proposal Development Center. ACT I said Thursday she will oversee the company’s efforts to develop, facilitate and produce prime and subcontract proposal...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 28, 2018 ” Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) HorizonX Ventures division has invested in Myriota, an Adelaide, Australia-based internet of things startup, in a bid to help the former advance its direct-to-orbit platform designed to facilitate communications for IoT-connected devices in remote locations, ExecutiveBiz reported...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2018 ” A Cubic (NYSE: CUB) whitepaper has urged public transit authorities to help drive the development of mobility-as-a-service technologies in order to address congestion, safety, security and other challenges in cities, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday Cubic Transportation Systems...
Suzanne Liscouski, former vice president of federal civilian agencies and client executive at NCI, has joined information technology reseller Govplace as VP of strategy and business development. Govplace said Monday Liscouski will be responsible for developing the Reston, Virginia-based company’s corporate strategy and plans for BD and capture...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2018 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has achieved a Maturity Level 4 designation from the CMMI Institute under the Capability Maturity Model Integration framework for development, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday Cyber Solutions performed the appraisal on ManTech’s qu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2018 ” David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) public sector business, has said microservices will work to distribute the development of applications across agency DevOps teams in order to deliver flexibility and scalability, ExecutiveBiz reported. He said in an interview microservices wil...
Dr. Steven Walker, director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was presented with a Wash100 award at the Defense Research and Development Summit hosted by the Potomac Officers Club on January 31st. The Wash100 ” Executive Mosaic™s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena. Dr. Walker was...
