Smartphone security company KoolSpan has announced the availability of TrustCall, a secure communications app for defense and intelligence agency users, on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's app store. TrustCall was made available through the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program and is now available to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, KoolSpan announced Tuesday. “We […]
The Army Contracting Command has awarded Leidos a $649M task order under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract vehicle. Leidos will provide Program Manager Sensors – Aerial Intelligence in support of DHC-8 and King Air 300 aircraft, Leidos said Monday. “We are proud to support the SOCOM community with tactical ISR operations, system integration, […]
The Department of Defense is creating its own repository of shareable code that could help the agency form a troubleshooting solution even before a problem arises, according to a top Pentagon official. Dana Deasy, the DOD's chief information officer and a two-time Wash100 awardee, noted that a string of code that solves an issue in one […]
Adranos, a rocket fuel startup, has secured over $1.1M worth of Army contracts to conduct tests on the functionality of the company's solid rocket fuel ALTEC within a hypersonic propulsion system. The contracts were awarded by the Army's Aviation and Missile Center and Office of the Undersecretary for Research and Development's Rapid Reaction Technology Office, […]
NetCentric, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, has won spots on pools 1 and 3 of the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services – Small Business contract vehicle. The company may now compete for task orders for a range of contracting solutions. The award covers scientific, technical and professional services under the vehicle's […]
Parsons announced that it has promoted Hector Cuevas to the position of vice president for missile defense and command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Cuevas, who joined the company in January 2019 from OGSystems' acquisition, most recently served as Parsons' senior VP of product sales operations, Parsons said. “Hector’s natural leadership ability, […]
Reps. Will Hurd, a two-time Wash100 awardee, and Robin Kelly have released a report calling for greater funding for the development of artificial intelligence technologies. In collaboration with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Center for New American Security, the two lawmakers pushed to increase AI funding year-on-year to $25B per year by 2025, Nextgov reported. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs' Financial Services Center has a requirement for cybersecurity audit services for its shared services program. The program manages accounting and financial services for VA and, for a fee, for other federal agencies. VA's request for information is expected to cover FSC's whole information technology system as part of the program's authority to […]
The Air Force, in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office, has awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX contracts for National Security Space launch services. ULA and SpaceX will perform their work under firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery requirement contracts, the Air Force announced. “This is a groundbreaking day, culminating years of strategic planning and effort by the Department of […]
The Air Force has awarded eight spots on its $950M contract for the Advanced Battle Management System in an effort to use emerging technologies for cross-domain linking. The eight companies are ARES Security, AT&T, Centauri, Cogniac, NanoVMs, Pacific Defense, SRC Inc. and Systematic. In total, there are now 50 companies that have spots in the […]
