Earlier this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the availability of its , , an advanced system designed to support a new generation of missions and research projects. Athena will provide the computational power necessary to simulate rocket launches, design next-generation aircraft and spacecraft, train large-scale artificial intelligence foundation models and analyze massive datasets to uncover new scientific insights. This high-performance computing (HPC) system – housed at NASA’s Ames Research Center – will help NASA scientists, engineers and researchers overcome complex challenges in space, aeronautics and science while lowering operational costs and improving energy efficiency.

Our Team Behind this Mission

The Ģ����Ƶ Federal team, comprised of HPC-focused architects, system administrators and application subject matter experts, was responsible for leading the development and implementation of a new site architecture as well as managing the transition and integration into NASA’s operational environment. Extensive planning, coordination and technical innovation were required to successfully guide the system through design, integration testing and rollout phases. This initiative relied heavily on collaboration across multiple organizations, such as infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, operations and vendor partners – with the team focused on balancing system stability, user adoption and performance optimization while minimizing disruption to ongoing scientific workloads. Ģ����Ƶ Federal is currently providing continuous 24/7/365 operational support for Athena HPC.

“The NASA Ames Research Center conducts critical research and development for the technologies that make NASA missions possible. We are proud to have worked hand-in-hand with our customer to help bring their vision for this transformational platform to life,” said Eric Velte, Ģ����Ƶ Federal Chief Technology Officer.

Interesting facts about NASA’s newest supercomputer include:

• Athena surpasses the capabilities of its predecessors, Aitken, Electra and Pleiades, in both power and efficiency, delivering over 20 petaflops of peak performance – a measurement of the number of calculations it can make per second – all while reducing the agency’s supercomputing utility costs.
• The system includes 1,024 nodes across four racks, delivering 262,144 CPU cores. For perspective, this four-rack cluster has as many cores as 16,000 to 22,000 modern laptops combined.
• The list ranks high-performance computing systems used for advanced scientific and engineering applications worldwide; Athena currently holds the 116th spot.
• Athena was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and was selected through a contest held last year among NASA’s High-End Computing Capability workforce – which was chosen because she is the half-sister of Artemis (the agency’s lunar exploration program).

Learn more about the Athena HPC supercomputer in this .

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal subsidiary Ģ����Ƶ Federal Data Network Technologies LLC, has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to execute the Financial Management Data System (FMDS) Technical Support Services contract. This work builds upon the longstanding partnership between Ģ����Ƶ Federal and NOAA.

Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Advanced Analytics Platform, A2P, is the framework for NOAA’s FMDS program. FMDS is an operational system that enables NOAA financial analysts to perform financial management including budget planning, variance analysis & plan adjustments. One key feature of the FMDS tool is that it uses AI/ML to examine data from prior spending cycles to predict future spending needs. The custom application of this solution for NOAA demonstrates an effective application where AI and data analytics are helping a government agency achieve its goals with smarter financial management methods.

‘Single Pane of Glass’ View and AI-Enabled Forecasting

• FMDS leverages a commercially developed custom AI module that can make sense of the agency’s complex financial data patterns and pre-process it in ways that help personnel identify spending behaviors for individual contracts to predict how much of their budget could potentially be left unused on each contract.
• The program gives financial leaders greater visibility into the agency’s finances by breaking down silos to bring data from disparate systems into a “single pane of glass”, to give them the data they need at their fingertips.
• The system’s analytics provide an integrated view of timely data that enables better decision-making through improved visibility into past financial performance against plan as well as AI-enabled forecasts into future spending behavior.

Creating Efficiencies Through Cost Savings

In the first couple of years of deployment, the system has identified tens of millions of dollars that had not yet been allocated due to complex planning practices. This tool has been so impactful that NOAA rolled it out to its entire budget community after the initial deployment with its National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) team. FMDS is based on commercial software that can be tailored to the unique needs of different agencies.

“This contract award underscores NOAA’s trust in our team to deliver innovative, reliable solutions like AI analytics for financial management,” said Clay Morad, vice president at Ģ����Ƶ Federal.

“FMDS presents an example of how an agency can evolve from an operating model focused on manually pulling data from various sources to one that gives leadership real-time visibility and vision into that data, and by extension, into the agency’s contracts and acquisitions,” said Theresa Cauble, Ģ����Ƶ Federal senior director of solutions architecture.

This contract is the first task order that Ģ����Ƶ Federal has won on the NOAA Mission IT Services (NMITS) acquisition vehicle. Ģ����Ƶ Federal will also provide front-line technical services to users while continuing to successfully implement this system across the agency. As a trusted partner, we look forward to advancing NOAA’s critical mission to better understand Earth’s climate and weather systems.

For more information, contact PR@asrcfederal.com.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal Advanced Research (AFAR), a subsidiary of Ģ����Ƶ Federal, has secured a competitive award to continue providing critical engineering support and technical expertise to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Second Level Engineering Services (SLES) program will maintain navigation, power, communications, surveillance, automation, weather systems and infrastructure for the National Airspace System (NAS) under a potential five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.

The Ģ����Ƶ Federal team will deliver 24/7/365 field support, configuration management, systems integration, acquisition support, and program management services ensuring reliability, safety, and operational continuity across the NAS.

“We are honored to be selected once again to support the critical work of maintaining and enhancing the world’s most sophisticated air travel system,” said Jennifer Felix, president and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. “Our selection demonstrates the crucial experience, expertise and unwavering commitment brought by our talented employees to the FAA mission of safe and efficient aviation service for the flying public.”

The $437 million SLES program plays a critical role in supporting ongoing NAS modernization efforts. Through this work, Ģ����Ƶ Federal will help strengthen the resilience, scalability, and performance of air traffic control systems that serve millions of passengers and stakeholders each year.

Ģ����Ƶ Federal has supported the FAA since 2007, bringing deep institutional knowledge and engineering and technical support to a broad range of FAA systems that consist of more than 74,000 individual pieces of equipment across the NAS.

For more information, contact PR@asrcfederal.com.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal��announced today that its joint venture��with ATCO,��, was awarded a 10-year U.S. Air Force contract to provide full-service facility operations and maintenance services at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which comprises 15 remote long-range radar sites and two radio sites across Alaska, the largest base in the Pacific Air Force.

Originally��established��during��the��Cold War��as an early warning system to��protect��U.S. airspace, the Alaska Radar System (ARS)��remains��critical��to national security. Today, ARS provides��uninterrupted surveillance to the North American Aerospace Defense Command��(NORAD)��and the U.S. Northern Command. ARS also provides civil��aircraft��information to the Federal Aviation Administration.��

Under this contract, ARCTEC Alaska will��continue to��provide specialized��logistics��and management��expertise��to��put in place��appropriate equipment, supplies and staff to��meet mission needs.��ARCTEC has supported this program since 1994.��

“The Alaska Radar System is critical to maintaining our sovereign air space and we are proud to be entrusted with supporting the safety and security of our Nation,” said Jennifer Felix, president and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. “This follow-on contract demonstrates our ability to consistently deliver critical mission services in complex environments.”��

“As a global support and facilities management company, we are uniquely positioned to support the U.S. Air Force in Alaska,” said Jim Landon, President, ATCO Frontec. “Our expertise in some of the most remote and challenging environments is why the USAF has trusted in our abilities for decades, enabling them to maintain continuous surveillance of our skies and safe navigation for civil flights across North America.”

The Department of War��[nor a respective Military Service or any other DOW��Component] does not approve, endorse, or authorize this company, its products or services.

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The second Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is scheduled for February 19 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. View the for real-time updates.

Ģ����Ƶ Federal employees across the Cape Launch Operations and Infrastructure Support (CLOIS) and programs share their personal reflections on what the mission means to them. For some, it’s about reigniting humanity’s spirit of exploration and inspiring the next generation of dreamers. For others, it’s the pride of contributing to something larger than themselves, knowing their work will have a lasting impact on this history-making spaceflight. Their words remind us that Artemis isn’t just a mission – it’s a team effort driven by purpose, innovation and the shared belief in reaching for the stars.

In Their Own Words:��What the Artemis��Mission��Means��to��Me

Read��our��“Meet Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Faces of Artemis II” blog��for other inspiring��employee stories and��why their work��matters��to this incredible feat.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal announced today that its subsidiary, Ģ����Ƶ Federal Facilities Logistics, won a contract valued at up to $2.3 billion from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for supply chain management for its Chemicals and Packaged Petroleum Oils and Lubricants Performance 3rd Generation (ChemPOL III) program. Ģ����Ƶ Federal will manage DLA’s ChemPOL commodities, servicing more than 5,000 global U.S. installations as well as allied partners through Foreign Military Sales (FMS). The supply chain management and logistics team at Ģ����Ƶ Federal has supported this program since its inception in 2007.��

Services provided by Ģ����Ƶ Federal include precise demand planning, technical procurement, distribution hub management, and quality and obsolescence oversight. By accurately forecasting global demand, Ģ����Ƶ Federal maximizes readiness to the warfighter and allied partners��by��optimizing��inventory to achieve stringent on-time delivery metrics.��Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s��proprietary, integrated IT system enables real-time requisition processing, while a dedicated customer portal provides DLA with��constant��visibility of��ChemPOL��commodities.����

��“We are honored to facilitate the third generation of this vital DLA��chemical and��lubricant��supply��program,” said Jennifer Felix, president and CEO of Ģ����Ƶ Federal. “Our supply chain��management��and logistics��team��has��proven��themselves time and again as a reliable��partner in��the��mission to get��critical��supplies to military commanders��on time��and on budget.”��

The work��encompasses��global Department of War��demand for this supply chain, supporting approximately 17,000��delivery��orders each month.����

Awarded by��DLA Aviation, this contract has a��five-year base period, followed by one three-year and one two-year��option��periods.��

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Thanks to the incredible generosity of Ģ����Ƶ Federal employees, over 150 “Angels” will experience a brighter holiday season. Donations from across the country — including bikes, electronics, video games, books, clothes and toys — will support children in need through the . Collections were spearheaded in multiple offices, including Reston, Va., Moorestown, N.J., and Huntsville, Ala. Individuals and teams could also adopt “Angels” through an organized digital campaign.����

For over 45 years, the Angel Tree program has been a beacon of hope, bringing the magic of the holidays to countless children and families. As one of the Salvation Army’s most impactful initiatives, it continues to inspire communities to give back year after year. Millions of Americans risk missing out on the joy of celebrating the holidays due to the impacts of inflation and rising costs. Last year, more than one million children were adopted and able to feel the warmth and wonder of the holiday season.����

In Their Own Words

Here is what some of our employees had to say about their experience with this year’s Angel Tree program.��

Ģ����Ƶ Federal works closely with the communities where its employees live and work, embracing its core values to help make a positive impact on the world. Click here to learn more about their corporate responsibility programs.��

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Professional works with modern industrial 3D printing machinery while wearing sterile protective clothing.

The novelty of 3D printing has worn off, but the real-world applications haven’t, and they extend far beyond desktop objects to the edge of the modern battlefield. Advances in 3D printing technology are revolutionizing the military’s approach to warfighting challenges. By reducing reliance on traditional supply chains and enabling iterative design and engineering processes, this technology ensures that military personnel can respond swiftly to dynamic scenarios.

In recent years, 3D printing technology, also known as additive manufacturing, has significantly improved in terms of its ability to create highly detailed, complex objects and structural parts — and even to combine different materials in a single print task, dramatically increasing print speeds. The technology has progressed to the point where it can offer an unprecedented advantage to warfighters in terms of timeliness, cost and quality of parts used in military vehicles, weapon systems, rockets and more. Not only does 3D printing have the potential to reduce cargo shipping weight; it’s even suited for field production in some cases.

These advances could offer crucial advantages on today’s battlefield, where timely delivery of parts, obsolescence issues and optimized supply chains are more important than ever. These are issues that can make the difference between mission success and failure.

What if the U.S. military could produce and package mission critical parts faster, cheaper and better that it could with conventional engineering methods? Good news: it can, with an upfront investment in additive manufacturing capability.

Use of additive manufacturing for the Army Apache helicopter is an instructive example that illustrates how applying this technology can save time and money while improving efficiency. With modern 3D printing, the Army is now able to produce Apache blade fold kits quickly, effectively and efficiently. And thanks to the iterative aspects of this technology, the Army can now prepare an Apache Helicopter for transport in less than an hour with as little as two soldiers, instead of the legacy system that would take up to eight hours and eight soldiers. These blade fold kits are 40% lighter than previous ones, reducing transport loads and costs. And because of the reduced weight and ease of use of the blade fold kit, the Army can return the aircraft to flight-ready status in less than an hour rather than many hours for each aircraft, saving critical time and soldier effort in the battlefield.

In another case, the Army uses additive manufacturing technology to improve the hand grips for Javelin shoulder-launched missile systems. Due to the physical stress of launching missiles and of operating equipment in hostile environments, the traditional injection-molded hand grips on these often break and render the Javelin inoperable at a critical time on the battlefield. But by using additive manufacturing, the Army is able to quickly and accurately test how breaks occur and iterate better versions to produce grips specifically designed to reduce the effects of those breaks, ensuring that critical targeting and launching functions were retained even if the hand grip was damaged. Because these are additively manufactured, a complex optimized internal geometry was made possible in a way that conventional manufacturing cannot achieve, resulting in a much more robust and field repairable hand grip. What’s more, this full design process was performed in four months.
In addition, the new additively manufactured handgrips include an “electronic module” feature that houses the systems’ electronics and can pop in and out for easy replacement and rapid and inexpensive repair in the field. Before, personnel had to return broken launch units to a depot, dramatically increasing the cost of repairs.

Despite the clear advantages that additive manufacturing can bring, there are some obstacles that government agencies have to overcome to fully embrace these capabilities. The biggest limitation of 3D printing is the misconception that users can just buy one of these machines and print from their desks. The process to refine and master these capabilities is involved and requires commitment for long-term gain on the part of the agency.

The design and engineering process can also be time intensive. In the case of the Javelin handgrips, the Army required two years of testing and qualification because of the new material specifications. But those hurdles are worth addressing. The Javelin hand grips, like the Apache blade fold kits, brought tremendous tactical advantages to U.S. soldiers.

The DoD’s ultimate goal is the ability to manufacture parts on the battlefield. Smartly applied 3D printing technology has brought it closer to this objective than ever before. 3D printing technology is delivering advantages to the U.S. military in terms of unprecedented speed, flexibility and efficiency on the battlefield. As innovations in materials and printing techniques continue to evolve, additive manufacturing will continue to create more strategic advantages for operational readiness and troops in the field. Investment in these advanced digital engineering capabilities could prove to be a unique advantage for kinetic warfare in the current era of great power competition.

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Company to offer products and services under the Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract

announced today that its subsidiary, Ģ����Ƶ Federal Facilities Logistics, has been selected as one of six companies to compete for task orders on a new Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract (MAAC). This enables the company to offer expedited supply chain management, procurement and delivery services, additive manufacturing, obsolescence management and forecasting to the U.S. Naval Supply Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP) for nuclear Virginia-class submarines and active surface ships.

Awarded by the DLA Maritime Mechanicsburg, the contract has a ceiling value of $5 billion with a five-year base period followed by five one-year options. The work will include support services and sustainment solutions for 10 weapons systems at various stages of their lifecycles associated with Navy cruiser-destroyers, submarines, and unmanned and surface combatants.

Leveraging proven solutions, Ģ����Ƶ Federal can now provide essential resources for the Navy’s latest class of nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines and active surface ships – increasing efficiency by reducing administrative lead times and improving responsiveness to the warfighter.

“Strengthening supply chain capacity is crucial to achieving the U.S. Navy’s goal of building VA-class nuclear submarines and supporting active service ships that bolster our Nation’s naval dominance,” said Chris Frye, president of Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s Supply Chain Management and Logistics operating group.

About Ģ����Ƶ Federal
Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s family of companies deliver successful mission outcomes and elevated performance for federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies while building an enduring enterprise focused on customers, employees, and shareholders.

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Ģ����Ƶ Federal has again been named a for 2025. This marks the third consecutive year the company has earned this distinction, which recognizes its commitment to recruiting, hiring, retaining, developing and supporting veterans and the military-connected community.��

Nearly 20 percent of Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s workforce identify with a military affiliation. Veterans are offered meaningful job opportunities in fields closely aligned with their specialties. The company is dedicated to supporting veterans and their families through career opportunities, internal initiatives, and strategic partnerships and programs such as , Department of Defense (DoD) SkillBridge and  – visit its Military Veteran Support page to learn more.��

Ģ����Ƶ Federal’s commitment to being a workplace of choice for veterans and military families is reflected in also having achieved repeat recognition from Military Times Best for Vets and Military.com Top 25 Veteran Employer awards.����

Discover opportunities for veterans at Ģ����Ƶ Federal and find your purpose driven career at www.asrcfederal.com/careers/.��

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