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Executive Mosaic Unveils 2024 Wash100 Award Winners Recognizing Outstanding Government and Industry Leaders

Executive Mosaic has revealed the recipients of the prestigious 2024 Wash100 Award, honoring exceptional executives in the government contracting sector. The Wash100 Award recognizes leaders who have demonstrated excellence throughout their careers and are poised to make significant impacts in the coming year. With a record-breaking response to nominations, the 2024 winners, comprising government officials […]
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New Lab Offers Virtual Reality Training to Alaska-Based Air Force Maintenance Group

The 176th Maintenance Group at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska is facilitating aircraft maintenance training through a new virtual reality training laboratory. Funding for the VR lab, which opened on Dec. 4, was provided by ARCWERX, an Air Reserve Component innovation hub. The lab currently has 18 modules, all focused on the C-130 aircraft. Additional […]
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Navy Completes Underwater Shock Testing for New Unmanned Minesweeper

The U.S. Navy’s new unmanned minesweeper has completed an underwater explosion shock testing, bringing it one step closer to fielding. The Unmanned Influence Sweep System is a semi-autonomous mine detonation detection solution that uses both acoustic and magnetic sensors. It comes with an obstacle avoidance sensor package and a command, control, communications and computers suite. […]
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Aquia Partners With RevaComm on CMS’ batCAVE Support Contract

Small businesses Aquia and RevaComm will team up on a five-year contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Continuous Authorization and Verification Engine initiative, otherwise known as batCAVE. Modeled after the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One, batCAVE was launched to transform security approaches to software development. CMS Chief Information Security Officer Robert […]
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Debris From Russian Anti-Satellite Test Continues to Pose Risk to LEO Satellites

Commercial space tracking firm COMSPOC said Russia’s recent anti-satellite weapon test will continue to pose future risks to global systems and low Earth orbit satellites, including the International Space Station. The Nov. 15 test involved the intentional destruction of a defunct Russian satellite using a ground-based missile, resulting in the scattering of an estimated 1,500 […]
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Technical and Management Assistance Corporation Now Part of ManTech International

ManTech International has closed its acquisition of Technical and Management Assistance Corp., a Columbia, Maryland-based company founded in 2008. TMAC caters to the U.S. Intelligence Community with advanced data engineering services and solutions. It has experience in systems engineering, data collection and governance, analytics and mission management systems, ManTech International said Monday. According to the […]
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Episci, Draper Hailed as Winners of Navy AISUM Prize Challenge

EpiSys Science and Draper have emerged as the winners of the U.S. Navy’s Artificial Intelligence for Small Unit Maneuvers Prize Challenge, a 10-month contest aimed at equipping warfighters with AI-powered robotic autonomous systems. AISUM participants developed algorithms and integrated them into off-the-shelf drones developed by Hydronolix, with the goal of enabling autonomous flight and gathering […]
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