The Air Force Research Laboratory has started seeking white papers for a potential five-year, $99.9 million broad agency announcement to research, develop and test signals intelligence and cyber technologies that could enable warfighters to make informed decisions to mitigate tactical threats and ensure dominance on the battlefield. The SIGINT Solut...
The Department of Defense is in the midst of a “reluctant revolution in military affairs,” according to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth III. With the advent of modern autonomous technologies, the U.S. military is currently undergoing never-before-seen efforts to uncrew “considerable portions” o...
The great power competition and its ripple effects are dramatically impacting the global intelligence landscape and reshaping how the United States Intelligence Community executes its missions. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Dr. Stacey Dixon highlighted this — “the intensifying strategic competition with China and ...
Maxar Technologies has separated into two separate businesses, one focused on spacecraft manufacturing and the other on satellite imagery, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The reorganization came four months after private equity firm Advent International closed its acquisition of Maxar in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion. The de...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has begun soliciting white papers for a potential five-year, $497.9 million broad agency announcement that seeks to support research, development, integration and testing of computing technologies, architectures and techniques. The Extreme Computing BAA has four technical areas: advancing computing technology and ap...
While artificial intelligence is not necessarily a new technology, recent advancements are unlocking new opportunities and threats alike at a more rapid pace than ever before. Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a four-time Wash100 Award winner, spoke about the key areas of AI growth, the challenges related to AI...
Jim Taiclet, CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said the defense and aerospace contractor is in “late-stage negotiations” with a solid-rocket motor company to create a new supplier of solid rocket motor propulsion systems, DefenseNews reported Thursday. Speaking before the House Armed Services Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation subc...
A&M Capital Partners has made a majority investment in VTG, which provides digital transformation and modernization platforms for customers in the defense and intelligence community. “This partnership with AMCP will accelerate VTG’s growth trajectory, allowing us to make investments in the emerging capabilities and technologies most needed b...
Jim McConville, a retired U.S. Army general who worked as the service branch’s 40th chief of staff, has joined private equity firm AE Industrial Partners as an operating partner. In this capacity, he will work with AEI’s portfolio companies and assess investment opportunities across the government services and defense sector. David Rowe, man...
Steven Derr, vice president of cloud operations and engineering at Oracle, has been selected to serve as chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Cloud Computing Group. Public sector leaders join senior industry executives in a series of dinner meetings and networking events as part of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 executive leadership program....
