Paul Sartorius, solution integration director at Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) national security space business, announced via LinkedIn that he has taken the role of vice president and general manager of Cubic’s digital intelligence group. He has more than 21 years of experience in defense contracting, having started as a senior systems engineer ...
Amentum will support the U.S. Navy by providing research and development, systems engineering, testing, analysis and technology maturation and insertion support to help assess and improve microelectronics laboratories and facilities under a potential five-year, $245 million task order. The company said Monday the task order awarded by the U.S. Air F...
In the challenging environment of space, “nuclear answers the mail on some serious operational problems,” according to Michael Smith, nuclear portfolio lead for operational energy-innovation within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. During a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Space...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed lower at $4,938.26 (-0.60%) on Friday, although it had enough buffer to post another winning week (+1.91%). However, all the main indexes on Wall Street had a losing week. The S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite retreated from their all-time highs, while the Dow Jones drifted lower. The index that...
The innovation arms of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force have announced the cohorts of small businesses that secured Strategic Funding Increase contracts for program year 2024 to help transition their defense technologies from the development phase to full production. The 2024 STRATFI initiative accounts for $193 million in Small Business Innovatio...
Executive Mosaic has elected Young Bang, U.S. Army principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, as one of its first-time winners of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The recognition underscores how his endorsement of artificial intelligence, automation and digital engineering supported the integration of cutting-edge tec...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $1.3 billion blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to provide DHS component agencies access to all Microsoft product offerings listed on the General Services Administration Schedule. DHS launched a full and open competition for the recompete...
The Space Development Agency is single-mindedly focused on delivering space-based capabilities to the warfighter. It accomplishes this goal through a dual capability approach. The first capability is line of sight targeting, which is concerned with detecting, tracking and calculating a firing solution for targets like mobile missile launchers or shi...
A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has secured a $178.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a next-generation intelligence ground station system for collecting and disseminating sensor data. Palantir USG will build five basic and five advanced variants of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node ground station system, ...
