Antenna Research Associates announced that it has completed its acquisition of SATCOM Technologies from AQYR Technologies. ARA CEO and President Logen Thiran, a Potomac Officers Club member, said the acquisition will help build his company's satellite communication products offering in support of government, military and commercial customers worldwide, Govcon Wire reported Tuesday. “With the addition […]
Amazon Web Services has announced that it wants to drive innovation in space and launch a new space business unit that will focus on the global aerospace and satellite industries. AWS is expected to leverage its global infrastructure and extensive portfolio of cloud services to analyze space data and research faster, Analytics India Magazine reported. […]
KBR has secured a $42.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee task order to provide services in support of the Naval Air Systems Command’s technical training product development. Work for the task includes research and analysis to upgrade, modernize, and develop state-of-the-art training products for systems such as aircraft. Bryon Bright, president of government solutions U.S. at KBR, has committed […]
T-Rex Solutions announced that seasoned federal market executive Rick Dansey has joined the company as vice president of growth and strategy. Dansey will oversee all aspects of the company’s growth and strategic planning,.research and competitive intelligence, marketing and proposals, T-Rex Solutions said Tuesday. “Rick is an integral part of T-Rex’s growth strategy to help us […]
The Naval Information Warfare Center has tapped ECS to develop a legacy data consolidation solution prototype that would facilitate the Defense Health Agency’s transition to a new military health system electronic health record initiative, called MHS Genesis. Under the terms of the cost-plus-fixed-fee, other transactional authority contract, ECS will develop a cloud-native prototype that will […]
The Navy continues to push through with its Next Generation Enterprise Network Program after being held up by a protest bid by Perspecta. On June 17, the Government Accountability Office denied Perspecta's bid and allowed Leidos to proceed with the Navy's $7.7B NGEN contract. NGEN provides the Navy and the Marine Corps an invisible infrastructure […]
Dovel subsidiary Ace Info Solutions has landed an Alliant task order under the Transportation Security Administration’s Flexible Agile Scalable Teams contract. Specifically, AceInfo will handle the contract’s operations support portfolio and help address the TSA’s reliance on legacy technology by enabling the Agile design, development and production of applications like microservices, software-as-a-service, mobile applications and […]
PAE has announced the appointment of Intelligence Community veteran Jerry Blixt as an accountant director. Blixt will serve as a subject matter expert focused on expanding relationships, developing service solutions and growing the company's business portfolio with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, PAE said Thursday. “His deep understanding of intelligence community […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Maxar Technologies a five-year contract to develop an analytics system for characterizing and tracking the behavior of vehicles in multiple domains at scale and in near-real-time. DHS awarded the $23M contract through the administration of the Department of the Interior, Maxar announced Monday. “Maxar is honored to continue […]
Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, considers the performance of information technology across the federal enterprise amid the pandemic as “a shining moment for IT leaders and their teams.” In an article for MeriTalk, Kovac, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, attributes the continued operation of […]
