Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, expects DoD and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to commence the initial deployment of a department-wide cloud computing infrastructure in February, Defense News reported Tuesday....
Jim Pietrocini, who has 25 years of federal market experience, has joined Centauri's space superiority and missile defense unit as vice president of business development. He aims to grow the firm's government client base in the cybersecurity, space and missile defense, engineering and intelligence segments, the company said Friday....
Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said that mission engineering, technology modernization and space systems market opportunities can provide a catalyst for long-tern SAIC growth, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday....
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said the company is committed to supporting the Department of Defense’s efforts to strengthen national security, Reuters reported Sunday....
Leidos Books Potential $1B FAA Flight Service Modernization Contract; Jim Moos Quoted Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has landed a potential 15-year, $1 billion contract to update the Federal Aviation Administration™s (FAA) digital flight briefing service with aeronautical and weather data as well as flight planning support features. The Future Fligh...
Drone Aviation and ComSovereign, a U.S.-based consortium of businesses involved in 5G telecommunications radio, power systems and silicon photonics, have completed their merger for an undisclosed sum. The newly combined company will operate as ComSovereign Holding and will focus on providing wireless carrier customers with 5G/NR connectivity and c...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen BAE Systems to create a semi-autonomous technology that would help military personnel to plan missions. BAE will develop the Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service software to facilitate automatic battlespace data collection across air, sea, land and space domains, the company said Tues...
Cybersecurity company Kasada has raised $7M from In-Q-Tel and other investors in a Series A funding round meant to further develop and facilitate the delivery of a platform designed to protect organizations from malicious bot attacks....
Phil Pitsky, vice president of federal operations at Dedrone, said the company has "grand visions" about the potential use of an unmanned aircraft system countermeasure technology, Inside Defense reported Friday. He was referring to DroneDefender, an anti-small UAS system the San Francisco-based firm acquired from Battelle in October....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 2, 2019 — John Kavanaugh, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP), has said the company maintains a diversified contract base, balanced portfolio and strong backlog during his keynote address at Baird’s 2019 Government & Defense Conference, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 20....
