RTX (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing and supplying terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radars and spare components under a five-year, $321.27 million contract from Special Operations Command. Work on Silent Knight Radar systems will be conducted in McKinney, Texas; and Forest, Mississippi, through Dec. 31, 2028, the Department of Defense said...
Andy Lowery has been promoted from chief operating officer and manager of commercial operations to CEO of Epirus. The company said Monday Lowery will step in for Ken Bedingfield, who is leaving after four years working for the organization. Lowery started at Epirus in 2021 as chief product officer. Prior to that, he co-founded and...
Mark Coleman, formerly a vice president at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has been named VP of business development at technical and professional services provider Precise Systems, he announced on LinkedIn. He joined the company after overseeing a portfolio of contracts with over $30 million in annual revenue at Parsons. At Parsons, Coleman focused on technol...
Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been elected to serve as chair of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2024. Colbert, who also serves as an executive vice president at Boeing, succeeds Tom Gentile as chairman and will serve on the association’s exe...
Michael Foster, former head of solutions engineering at CrowdAI, was appointed as chief data officer of the U.S. Central Command. The military branch is banking on Foster’s expertise in artificial intelligence model development, big data management and spatio-temporal analytics to reach its goal of becoming a data-centric organization, CENTCOM...
Well-versed in the defense and intelligence communities, Tom Lash spent almost two decades at SAIC in roles such as senior systems engineer, chief technology officer and vice president of operations. He then became a part of Leidos when it spun off from SAIC in 2013. At Leidos, he helped administer engineering integration for the storied...
In October, the Department of Defense announced its intent to publish its first National Defense Industrial Strategy to lay out its plans for investment in the defense industrial base. According to Laura-Taylor Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, the strategy will center five key areas: creating resilient ...
Supercomputing provider PsiQuantum created its first-ever government advisory board to keep abreast of the latest quantum technologies and developments applicable to the sector. The new board includes Wash100 awardees Robert Sharp, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense ...
Chantilly, Virginia-based government technology company Arcfield has finalized its purchase of Orion Space Solutions as part of efforts to expand its space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities in support of intelligence community and Department of Defense agency customers. Established in 2005, Colorado-based Orion is focuse...
The healthcare sector is currently undergoing a revolution as it moves to implement new technologies and care strategies that have the potential to transform the ways these organizations operate. For the U.S. government, advancements in healthcare offer numerous opportunities to provide those who rely on public health offerings across the nation wit...
