The U.S. Navy has awarded four five-year contracts worth $1.74 billion combined to procure maintenance, repair and modernization services for non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious ships. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts covering lots 1 through 4 include scheduled docking and non-docking, continuous and eme...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
The Office of Management and Budget has introduced a three-part framework that serves as a roadmap for advancing the Biden administration’s management priorities to strengthen the federal government’s capacity to deliver results to all U.S. citizens. The Biden-Harris Management Agenda Vision has three priorities: strengthening and empowe...
Patrick Murphy, president and CEO of Axient, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He discussed the company rebranding and how the move supports the innovation efforts of Axient and the mission of its customers. Murphy also talked about Axient’s strategic organization, advancement in digital...
Voyager Space has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Space Micro, a San Diego-based maker of satellite communications, electro-optical and digital systems, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its technology portfolio in support of defense, civil and commercial customers. “The satellite constellation market stand...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Inmarsat have teamed up to develop an integrated control segment in pursuit of Australia’s military satellite communications system procurement effort. The two companies intend to jointly pursue the JP9102 Australian Defence Satellite Communication System development program and build on previous collaborative ...
Carey Smith, president and CEO of Parsons and three-time Wash100 Award winner, sat with Peter Arment, senior research analyst for Baird, during Wednesday’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference to provide a look into Parsons’ growth strategies, national security efforts and the influence that emerging technologies are having on business and t...
On Wednesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense and Intelligence: IT Modernization Forum, which gathered elite defense, intelligence and commercial sector leaders to divulge the technological priorities, key strategies and innovative initiatives driving the Defense Intelligence Agency’s digital transformation goals as rapid information ...
