During GovCon Wire Events’ AI: Innovation in National Security Forum, the most important private and public sector leaders will discuss how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology is radically transforming the national security space. AI has already become an integral element of national security goals, priorities and overall strategy. De...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Learjet, a Bombardier subsidiary, a $464.8 million contract to procure an aircraft equipped with technology for airborne communications relay. The Wichita, Kansas-based company will deliver a maximum of six Bombardier Global 6000 jets that are fitted with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system, the Departm...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $950 million in combined value to 22 companies to procure intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment and services in support of U.S. customers under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Department of Defense said Thursday recipients of the multiple...
ArchTIS and its U.S. subsidiary, Nucleus Cyber, have signed on four channel partners to offer information security technology to government contractors that want to pursue the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Canberra, Australia-based archTIS said Wednesday its newly formed U.S. federal and defense sa...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $101.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide interim contractor support and assign logistics service representatives at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina where the KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft is stationed. The award exercises options on the contract for engineering, manu...
The Professional Services Council has called on Congress to provide funding for cybersecurity and information technology modernization efforts as it drafts an infrastructure package that would coincide with the Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan. The SolarWinds breach and other recent cyberattacks and the new executive order on cybersecurit...
Phil Robinson, a three-decade veteran of the aerospace and defense sector, has been named vice president and chief security officer at McLean, Virginia-based satellite relay system developer SpaceLink. He will oversee the company’s strategic and tactical security functions and brings to his new position years of technology, operations and data...
ExecutiveBiz released its latest Executive Spotlight interview with Robert Silverman, an executive vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, regarding how Booz Allen Hamilton seeks to help agencies build the “digital battlespace” and his perspective on technical capability investments that support growth strategy, along with an overview of the...
Technica has secured a $43.5 million task order under an existing contract with the U.S. Air Force to help the intelligence community and combatant commanders conduct blanket operations and security sustainment. The company will deliver a net-centric enterprise of services and systems designed to support the tactical, strategic and operational needs...
A Fincantieri subsidiary received a potential $553.8 million contract modification after the U.S. Navy exercised an option for the company to design and build the second Constellation-class guided-missile frigate. Fincantieri Marinette Marine will also provide integrated digital environment services to support the construction of the future USS Cong...
