The battle between the Department of War and artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is the hottest story in GovCon. The two parties are embroiled in a legal dispute over to which extent the department should be able to use a contractor’s technology in activities deemed legal and whether a contractor should be able to dictate how the...
SMX has appointed Robert Longo as senior vice president of capture strategy and business development for its enterprise systems and solutions business unit. The company announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, highlighting Longo’s over two decades of executive leadership experience in steering enterprise-level modernizations an...
The American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation has broken ground on its first National Security Industrial Hub in Bloomfield, Indiana, advancing a Department of War-backed effort to expand domestic munitions and solid rocket motor production capacity, according to a press release sent to GovCon Wire. The campus, which spans more than 1...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The future of innovation in both government and industry will not be distinguished by singular breakthroughs, but rather by the convergence and meshing of a number of different new technologies. Going forward, industries, national security, economic competitiveness, privacy and almost eve...
Peraton has appointed Bob Genter, a federal technology industry leader, as president and chief operating officer, effective Feb. 17. The latest appointment at Peraton comes as GovCon leaders continue to prioritize operational execution, growth strategy and mission delivery across the federal market. Those themes will take center stage at the Potomac...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $2.8 billion contract to modernize the Republic of Korea Air Force’s F-15K Slam Eagle fighter aircraft. Get exclusive insights into strategies and requirements that keep American warfighters ahead of global adversaries at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Air and Space Summit on July 30. Top Air For...
By Paul Rempfer, vice president of business development-defense at PCI Government Services The Manhattan Project’s greatest feat wasn’t just mastering the physics of the atom; it was the coordination of chemical plants, university labs and industrial giants to build a history-altering weapon in just three years. Today, the Golden Dome initiative...
Emil Michael’s influence over the Pentagon’s technology and innovation enterprise has expanded rapidly in recent months, placing him at the center of major reforms shaping how defense research moves from concept to operational capability. Michael, the under secretary of war for research and engineering, is set to deliver keynote remarks ...
Some Chinese artificial intelligence developers said China’s efforts to catch up with the U.S. in AI are being slowed by a bottleneck in access to advanced chips, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As U.S. policy continues to shape the direction of AI at home and abroad, industry and government stakeholders are watching closely how...
CesiumAstro, a space and defense communications systems and satellites company, has received $200 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, or EXIM, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. The transaction represents the largest financing completed under EXIM’s Make More in America program and among the most substanti...
