The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that two agreements have been signed with the European Space Agency aimed at advancing cooperation in relation to Earth science and the Artemis missions. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signed the agreements on behalf of their agencies in ceremonies held in Noordwijk, Netherlands, […]
Trista Colbert is a senior partner and the vice president of hybrid cloud services for the federal sector at IBM. She has over two and a half decades of industry experience guiding technology strategy, investments and large-scale implementations, according to her LinkedIn profile. Colbert describes herself as a technology leader who is obsessed with client […]
Beau Hutto is the vice president of software company Netskope‘s federal business, working out of Atlanta, Georgia. He is an accomplished executive in support of federal cyber initiatives, with over two decades spent in sales and sales leadership positions, according to his LinkedIn profile. During his long career, Hutto has managed to grow revenue for […]
Wes Anderson is the vice president of defense at Microsoft, working out of Reston, Virginia. He is passionate about solving customers’ most challenging problems “with urgency and excellence, serving others and assuring that all voices are heard,” according to his LinkedIn profile. Anderson said that his extended career has seen him lead teams across the […]
General Dynamics Information Technology announced that it was awarded the $121.8 million Award Eligibility Determination contract by the Department of Education to modernize the Federal Student Aid processing system. The deal calls for migrating mission-critical legacy applications to modern architecture, with the new AED system hosted in AWS GovCloud, GDIT said Tuesday. The 10-year contract […]
The Department of Energy announced that it is investing $39 million to fund 18 projects aimed at developing technologies that can transform buildings into net carbon storage structures. Awardees for the Harnessing Emissions Into Structures Taking Inputs from the Atmosphere program will focus on overcoming barriers associated with carbon-storing buildings, including scarce, expensive and geographically limited […]
Virginia-headquartered defense and space manufacturer BlueHalo announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to deliver a pair of optical laser communications proto-flight terminals and a matching ground station. The $11 million contract is intended to support the development of technologies that would enhance the interoperation of space and […]
Arizona-headquartered Raytheon Missiles & Defense announced that it has been awarded an $867 million contract by the Missile Defense Agency to deliver Standard Missile-3 Block IIAs to the United States and its foreign allies. The SM-3 interceptor is a defensive missile the U.S. Navy uses to destroy short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles, RMD said Tuesday. […]
The University of Houston System announced that it is expanding its joint research efforts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Johnson Space Center for developing technologies that would allow humans to go deeper into space. The two institutions have been partnering on various educational and outreach endeavors for the past 50 years, UH System […]
The Air Force’s Air Education Training Command announced the launch of the second phase of its myTraining system, a project to track the progress of airmen’s on-the-job training. The program was designed to replace the Total Force Training Record for active-duty airmen and members of the Air National Guard, the Air Force website reported Thursday. […]
