Alderman Gilbert Villegas

Government Business

AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. | October 29, 2021

AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. , an industry-leading provider of full-stack drone, sensor and software solutions, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, senseFly, has been named to the Blue sUAS 2.0 list, published by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) earlier this month. The Blue sUAS 2.0 project follows the successful partnership between the U.S. Army and DIU on the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program for small unmanned aircraft sys...

Emerging Technology, Cybersecurity

PR Newswire | July 24, 2023

IMB Partners ("IMB"), a leading middle market private equity firm specializing in utility, industrial, and government contracting services ("GovCon"), today announced its strategic investment in eTelligent Group ("eTel"), a premier provider of emerging technologies and program management solutions to the U.S. Government. Founded in 2005, eTel has been leading the enterprise-wide transformation of critical business systems by managing the implementat...

Huawei | July 10, 2020

The Trump administration is set to finalize regulations this week that ban the United States government from working with contractors who use technology from five Chinese companies: Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua and Hytera Communications, according to a Reuters report. The ban was first introduced as a provision in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that prevents government agencies from signing contracts with companies that use equipment, services and systems from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, ...

CTIA | August 12, 2020

Clearing federal spectrum for commercial use helps federal agencies modernize their wireless operations and benefit from cutting edge technologies, according to a new CTIA paper. Proceeds from clearing the AWS-1 and AWS-3 bands for commercial 4G services allowed federal agencies to upgrade wireless equipment, enhance spectral efficiencies and improve the quality and resiliency of their wireless operations....