Potomac Officers Club, the premier organization that specializes in gathering high-profile speakers and collaborative colleagues for government contracting industry events, is excited to announce its upcoming 2023 Healthcare Summit. This highly relevant, informative day of programming will tap into the most important things happening in the healthc...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
An HII (NYSE: HII) division will help the U.S. Air Force manage its bombers portfolio under a five-year, $138 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will provide advisory and assistance services to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s directorate responsible for modernizing and sustaining bomber systems, the company said Mon...
The Defense Logistics Agency has released a solicitation for the fourth iteration of a contracting vehicle that would provide for research and development efforts in various agency mission-specific areas. According to the SAM.gov notice, the Emergent IV broad agency announcement will have a potential $125 million ceiling value for R&D program fo...
The U.S. intelligence community is self-evidently one of the most secretive, secure aspects of the federal government, charged with collecting, processing and acting upon highly sensitive information. Thus, IC officials have to be extremely careful about how they evolve their information technology infrastructure and rigorously vet any new tools the...
The U.S. Space Force has started to solicit information on technical approaches and concepts that could be used to facilitate the integration of government payloads onto a space vehicle without the need for major modifications. The service has provided information on two space vehicle variants meant to address the requirements of two separate missio...
CACI International‘s (NYSE: CACI) federal arm has received a five-year, $414 million task order to engineer software and systems supporting the U.S. Air Force’s functional and mission requirements. The company will help the Air Force Research Laboratory explore information processing tools for battlespace awareness and decision-making ap...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
Aerospace startup JetZero will develop a blended wing body aircraft prototype for the Department of the Air Force under a potential four-year, $235 million contract from the Defense Innovation Unit. The full-scale technology demonstrator is projected to take its maiden voyage in the first quarter of 2027 to validate the BWB design concept and demons...
