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ASRC Federal?has agreed to?buy the logistics and supply chain management business?of?Science Applications International Corp.?(NYSE: SAIC) in a cash transaction valued at approximately $350 million. Both parties expect to close the transaction in the spring of 2023, pending receipt of regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Steve Adlich, former president of Tyonek Native Corp.'s aviation services and manufacturing divisions for the past seven years, has been appointed chief strategy officer at?Edge Autonomy. He will oversee plans and initiatives to advance Edge Autonomy's global manufacturing and unmanned aerial system technology businesses.
Boeing?(NYSE: BA) has received a potential $1.9 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce 184?AH-64E Apache combat helicopters?for the service branch and international customers, including Australia.
Six companies have received contracts from the National Reconnaissance Office to study?commercial hyperspectral imagery?capabilities.?BlackSky Technology?(NYSE: BKSY),?HyperSat,?Orbital Sidekick,?Pixxel,?Planet?(NYSE: PL) and?Xplore?secured the study contracts under NRO's Strategic Commercial Enhancement broad agency announcement.
Shannon Vaughn?is a passionate cybersecurity proponent who has put his weight behind data-centric security and privacy company?Virtru?for the last year and a half. As general manager, Vaughn collaborates directly with federal government customers. Vaughn recently engaged in a dialogue with ExecutiveBiz regarding the ways Virtru aims to tackle the government’s most pressing cyber threat protection conundrums and advance mission partner collaboration, the conditions created by the Zero Trust Executive Order and more.
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Strangeworks, an Austin-based software company focused on quantum computing, has closed a?round of Series A financing?led by Hitachi Ventures. Other investors in the investment round, which raised $24 million, were?IBM?and?Raytheon Technologies.
Join the?ExecutiveBiz Quantum Technologies Forum?on April 5 to hear thought leaders, government officials and industry experts discuss how government, industry and academia work together to harness quantum capabilities.
Accenture’s federal business arm has been awarded a $380 million contract from?U.S. Customs and Border Protection?to deliver infrastructure operations and modernization services. Under the award, Accenture Federal Services will provide?all-encompassing technology assistance?for multiple of the agency’s programs to support its mission of protecting U.S. borders and ensuring lawful international travel and trade.
NASA has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $476 million program to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. Proposals for the?Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition?program?are due April 20.
Cloud migration and cybersecurity are interconnected issues and currently front of mind for the U.S. Department of Defense. According to?David McKeown, acting principal deputy chief information officer at the DOD and a 2023?Wash100 Award?winner, the department’s dual missions to migrate applications to the cloud and ramp up cutting edge cybersecurity practices are extremely crucial in today’s geopolitical climate. McKeown delivered the keynote address at ExecutiveBiz’s?Cloud Security Forum?on March 22.
Eight weeks have now passed since the announcement of the?Wash100 Award class of 2023?and with it, the beginning of this year’s popular vote contest. This week, the top five has remained fairly similar to the last several weeks, yet some notable movement has occurred and big changes happened in the top 20.
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