Quantum computing is a rapidly-growing technology that, when fully developed, will far surpass the capabilities of classical computers. But although these capabilities are still years out from being realized, public and private sector leaders are already anticipating the threats that will emerge from quantum computing, and they’re working to stay ...
Leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense have been looking for a way to centralize their Joint All Domain Command and Control endeavor. Under this ideal state, communications and data sharing would be interlocked in a seamless mesh network that includes all six military branches and is functional at the edge: wherever a warfighter is active....
BrainGu has received a five-year, $125 million contract to support a cloud-based command and control environment for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award will include the provision of DevSecOps as a service to the Department of Defense Platform One at multiple secur...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will provide a cloud-based application factory to the Space Development Agency under a $64 million contract. The factory is intended to host battle management command, control and communications software apps that will support SDA’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, the company said ...
Roger Alan Nichols, formerly a client executive director at AT&T (NYSE: T), has joined Columbia, Maryland-based information technology company Freedom Consulting Group as chief growth officer. He will report directly to FCG CEO Vernon Saunders and oversee corporate strategy and growth initiatives, FCG said Wednesday. “The ability to execute ou...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) reported $2.03 billion in revenue for the first quarter of its 2024 fiscal year, up 2 percent from the prior-year period, and attributed the growth to a ramp-up on contracts. The company said Monday net income for the three months ended May 5 climbed to $98 million from $74...
Advanced Technology Leaders has won a potential five-year, $365 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation under the third iteration of the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance program. Army Contracting Command received 17 bids for the SETI III firm-fixed-price con...
Mike Mulcahy, a digital transformation and strategy development leader for global public-sector aerospace and government system integrators at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said the talent shortage in the aerospace and defense industry reflects the need for the industry to keep up with technological developments. “The loss of talent is only the symp...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will provide enterprise technology services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a multiyear, $463 million contract. USSOCOM works with Palantir to manage large amounts of data using the latter’s software platform to support decision-making processes, the data analytics company said Monday. “Our par...
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and two-time Wash100 Award winner Dana Barnes was sought out by the world of information technology, rather than chasing it himself. He was recruited by IBM in the late 1990s, where he participated in the Business Development Professionals Program, initiating his passion for solving business problems with technology and a f...
