Projections from the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office indicate that service branches and government agencies could award approximately $1.7 billion in commercial satcom contracts over the next 12 months, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. CSCO outlined 10 contract opportunities for fiscal year 2024-2025 in its forecast to i...
Top U.S. Army officials have declared that they see a collaborative and “reciprocal relationship” with industry as key to getting new technologies into the hands of warfighters at a faster rate. Among the Department of Defense component’s tech focus areas are artificial intelligence, counter-drone systems and long-range precision fires. Young ...
The U.S. Army plans to award five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $467.7 million combined to provide research and development, engineering design, production and related support services for the Capabilities Development Command Armament Center at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The procurement effort is a total small busines...
Semiconductor manufacturer Mobix Labs (Nasdaq: MOBX) has acquired RaGE Systems, a provider of radio frequency joint design and manufacturing services, as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of wireless communications offerings. Mobix Labs said Tuesday that Massachusetts-based RaGE Systems brings expertise in producing software and hardware produ...
BlueHalo has received a potential $95.4 million contract from the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command to develop a prototype of its directed energy system under the Laser technology Research Development and Optimization program. The company said Tuesday the contract was awarded through the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium. “W...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of the U.S. arm of QinetiQ, was handed her 2024 Wash100 Award by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the award, in a recent in-person meeting. This is Purvis’ fourth consecutive year being recognized in the highest tier of the government contracting industry, a rarified group that EM takes pri...
Dirk Wiker, chief cyber/zero trust architect for the federal business segment at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said federal agencies should leverage artificial intelligence tools to modernize threat detection and response and improve their cybersecurity posture. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Wiker wrote that AI could enable agencies to...
The U.S. Air Force is getting serious about equipping its fleet with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities amid an intensifying technological competition with China. In one of their most recent AI initiatives, the Air Force successfully tested an F-16 fighter jet equipped with an autonomous agent built by Shield AI. Curious about...
Joe Levy was named CEO of Sophos, where he has been working for nearly a decade– most recently as acting chief executive of the cybersecurity software company. Sophos said Monday Levy has almost three decades of experience in innovating and leading cybersecurity product development, services and companies, and nine years of his career were spe...
Identity security company CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR) will acquire machine identity management company Venafi from Thoma Bravo for an enterprise value of approximately $1 billion in cash and approximately $540 million in shares. CyberArk said Monday it plans to create a unified platform for end-to-end machine identity security by combining its identity ...
