GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum where distinguished defense agency and private sector leaders talked about technology procurement efforts, infrastructural priorities, modernization strategies and cultural shifts affecting how Defense Department agencies, military service branches and ...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Wire Events on Thursday hosted the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum, which gathered leading government agency and private sector officials for an exclusive discussion surrounding the most imperative modernization initiatives and urgent infrastructural needs that are influencing defense agencies’ s...
As the U.S. Space Force enters its third year of operation, its leaders are prioritizing acquisition reform among the key transformational shifts the organization is expected to undergo in its pursuit of innovative technologies, advanced capabilities and more interoperable systems. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff for the Space Force, cited ...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will bring together top space acquisition experts from the government and industry at a Jan. 19 virtual forum to offer insight into the Defense Department’s priorities and modernization efforts in the space domain. David Ray, senior vice president of operations and lead for the space business unit ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) reportedly will manufacture three more GPS III Follow-On military communications satellites under a $737 million contract option from the U.S. Space Force, SpaceNews reported Thursday. USSF ordered space vehicles 15, 16 and 17 as part of a potential $7.2 billion GPS IIIF fixed-price-type production contract the U.S. Air F...
Embedded Ventures has agreed to help the U.S. Space Force examine how venture capital investments can drive innovation in the space industry. The California-based VC firm said it signed a cooperative research and development agreement with USSF’s SpaceWERX organization as the military branch looks to pursue new space-based technologies through...
Geospark Analytics has received a four-year contract to help the State Department expand the use of a company-built artificial intelligence-based platform for assessing global threats and risks. The department intends to deploy the Hyperion technology to monitor and forecast emerging events in real time as part of diplomatic security missions worldw...
Sev1Tech has won a $47.5 million contract to develop a data transport-as-a-service platform for the U.S. Space Force. The Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology company will aim to build and demonstrate the DTaaS prototype for the branch’s mission partners as part of the meshONE-Terrestrial program, the Space Systems Command said Mo...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has awarded prototype agreements worth $87.5 million combined to four companies to advance testing of next-generation rocket engines and improve the resiliency of upper stages, SpaceRef reported Friday. The command’s Launch Enterprise awarded the prototype projects to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, R...
The U.S. Space Force has named ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space as the first on-ramp awardees on the Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle as part of efforts to expand the pool of vendors that could help launch payloads larger than 400 pounds to orbit within one to two years from task order...
