ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2024--
Knight Federal Solutions, a federal contractor delivering specialized simulation, training, cybersecurity, IT, and intelligence analysis solutions to the Defense and Intelligence sectors, is honored to announce its recent prime contract award, with strategic partner Valiant Integrated Services, for the Joint Readiness Training Center Support Contract (JRTCSC) as of March 2024. With a performance period of four years and seven months, Knight Federal is set to bolster the training capabilities at Fort Johnson, LA, by providing mission support services aimed at Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) training to forge the combat leaders of the future.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240520254636/en/
Knight Federal’s mission aligns with the Joint Readiness Training Center Operations Group's goal of providing rigorous, multi-echelon training in a Decisive Action environment. This alignment encompasses the operating, maintaining, and sustainment of the JRTC Integrated Training Networks, support equipment and Access Control functions to all the training environments: Live, Virtual, Constructive, and Gaming. This, combined with additional Cybersecurity services, will sustain the JRTC's enterprise Authorization to Operate (ATO) renewal efforts and secure key facilities within the JRTC Information Security (IS) enterprise.
"Knight Federal is committed to enhancing the preparedness of America's military forces," says Chris Baeten, CEO of Knight Federal. "This contract underlines our pledge to deliver robust training solutions and supports our passion to strengthen the nation’s warfighter."
Knight Federal has been providing subcontracting support to Valiant at JRTC for the past two years under the Mission Support Contract and continues to emphasize its strategic focus on high-quality training and support for the military, ensuring our nation’s armed forces are well-prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.
For more information, please visit KnightFederal.com.
About Knight Federal Solutions
Knight Federal Solutions provides simulation and training, cybersecurity, IT, and intelligence analysis solutions to the Defense and Intelligence sectors. The company focuses on developing mission driven, cost-effective solutions designed to exceed expectations and empower results. For additional information, visitwww.knightfederal.com.
Knight Federal Solutions announces its recent prime contract award, with strategic partner Valiant Integrated Services, for the Joint Readiness Training Center Support Contract (JRTCSC) as of March 2024. (Photo: Business Wire)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world's most powerful countries, the latest example of how President Donald Trump's administration has restricted media access.
Individual reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to the Group of 20 finance ministerial in Asheville, North Carolina, the Times reported.
The Treasury has not explained the decision. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Associated Press in an interview Sunday that “it has nothing to do with point of view.”
The reporters who've been denied access include the Times' Alan Rappeport, who has been covering such meetings and the Treasury Department since 2017. However, another reporter for the Times, Berlin bureau chief Jim Tankersley, is allowed to attend.
The Times said in a statement that denying American journalists access to an event in the U.S. is “not just another disturbing effort by the administration to undermine independent journalism, but a blatant attempt to evade public scrutiny.”
“With the war in Iran, sanctions, the bond markets, and inflation on the agenda for the G20 finance ministers, the stakes of this gathering are significant for the global economy and the American people,” the Times said. "Excluding specific reporters and entire news organizations is a disservice to the public and an assault on press freedoms that we strongly condemn.”
Bloomberg News said denying access to the meeting “undermines media freedom and public accountability.”
The Wall Street Journal declined to comment.
Bessent is hosting the G20 meeting, which runs Saturday through Tuesday. It includes finance ministers, central bank governors and senior officials from the world's top economies. This year's G20 summit, which involves heads of state, is being held in December at Trump's golf club in Doral, Florida.
Tensions have been escalating between the U.S. media and the second Trump administration, playing out both in the public arena and at times in the courts.
For example, the Defense Department declared earlier this year that its press office had become a classified space inaccessible to journalists. The ouster came after the Pentagon had demanded that reporters agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, prompting most news outlets to leave the building last fall.
—-
Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein in Asheville, N.C., contributed to this report.
FILE - A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building in New York, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent departs after speaking at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
