Lawmakers Call for $26B in Coronavirus Relief Funding to Support R&D Programs A bipartisan group of senators will seek $26 billion from the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package to sustain research efforts and personnel in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders announced on Monday. The office of Sen. Edward Markey, said th...
Leidos Completes $1B Purchase of L3Harris’ Security Detection, Automation Businesses; Roger Krone Quoted Leidos has finalized its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ security detection and automation businesses for approximately $1 billion in cash, Leidos said Monday. The company also announced that Jim Moos, president of Leidos’ civil gr...
GovCon industry veterans Michael Polmar of Growth Partners Solutions, Mark Johnson of 3A Broker Services and JP Foley of Foley Ventures have combined their consulting businesses to launch a new advisory firm focused on providing full-service business and strategy development support to small- and mid-market GovCon firms. Washington, D.C.-based Catap...
Jay Boisseau, AI and HPC technology strategist at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), has said collection of more digital data, emergence of new processors and graphics processing units and development of better algorithms are the three elements that could help federal agencies create a “perfect storm” to push the adoption of artificial intelligence...
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded 46 companies spots on a potential $950M contract for core services in support of USSOCOM’s domestic and international enterprise requirements. The Department of Defense said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes knowledge-based services and subject matter expertise in suppo...
Ted Ross, co-founder and CEO of SpyCloud, will serve as a panelist at Potomac Officers Club’s CMMC Forum 2020 on Wednesday, June 24th. ...
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, told Catherine Melquist, president of the Mobile Satellite User Association, in an interview published on MilsatMagazine that the U.S. government and industry are teaming up to leverage the opportunities of space by making changes to acquisition pr...
Battelle and Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center have collaborated to develop a novel coronavirus test that the hospital intends to administer under an existing Food and Drug Administration certification. The partnership created the test in efforts to shorten the turnaround time for COVID-19 diagnosis and accelerate test processi...
Tom Reilly, who served as CEO of Cloudera between 2013 and 2019, has been appointed to the board of advisers at analytics company OmniSci. The three-decade industry veteran has previous board leadership experience and helped drive the financial performance and growth of multiple software firms, OmniSci said Tuesday....
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential $378M contract modification from the U.S. Space Force to replace computer hardware in the next-generation ground control segment for GPS satellites....
