L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) and Pacific Defense have won cash prizes from the U.S. Army as the three finalists of a competition aimed to drive technological innovations that can facilitate the convergence of warfighting platforms. All three companies presented prototypes for improving the C4ISR/Electronic Warfar...
ManTech has secured a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to maintain the reliability of combat systems for training and live operations. The five-year award, won through a recompete, covers configuration management, researc...
Tom Gentile, president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, have been elected to serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2023. Eric Fanning, a previous Wash100 awardee, will continu...
The two main concepts on which the U.S. Army’s cyber team is concentrated in order to protect its information are time and scale. Responding to potential threats in “machine time” in order to diminish the blast radius of a harmful event is crucial, as is executing cybersecurity that matches the breadth of resources in need of...
Maximus (NYSE: MMS) saw its full fiscal year 2022 revenue rise 8.9 percent to $4.63 billion and reported $3.29 in diluted earnings per share and adjusted diluted EPS of $4.37 for the year ended Sept. 30. The Tysons, Virginia-based government services contractor said Monday it booked $10.5 billion in contracts for FY 2022, including a...
The Department of Defense has released a zero trust cybersecurity framework outlining targeted efforts to secure the DOD Information Enterprise by reducing its attack surface, enabling risk management and facilitating data sharing. The DOD Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap focuses on four high-level strategic goals: zero trust cultural adoption, DoD i...
By Cameron Chehreh It has become a cliché to say digital technology has transformed every aspect of our lives and that businesses need to embrace digital transformation to compete in the marketplace. It has likewise become conventional wisdom to note that government agencies must digitize internal processes and external service delivery to fulfill ...
Over the last eight-plus years, Bill Webner has helped information technology services and consulting company Capgemini better serve federal customers in the national security, defense, civil and health sectors. Through his work as vice president of the organization’s Government Solutions arm, Webner has overseen digital transformation e...
Nick Heudecker, senior director of market strategy at Cribl, said the 2021 cybersecurity executive order has pushed federal agencies to take a closer look at zero trust, endpoint detection and response and supply chain security and implement a layered security architecture. Heudecker wrote that the EO has resulted in the development of the Office of...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will manufacture and deliver active electronically scanned array radars to the U.S. Air Force for its F-16 Fighting Falcon jets under a $99.3 million contract modification. The Department of Defense said Monday the service branch exercises an option from the original contract to purchase 42 production radars as well as o...
