HII (NYSE: HII) has won a seven-year, $78.7 million contract to provide independent advice and assessment support for the Missile Defense Agency’s initiative to develop an integrated and layered system for intercepting adversary missiles. The Department of Defense named Alion Science and Technology the awardee of the competitive cost-plus-fixe...
Aaron Weis, managing director of technology at Google Public Sector, has been selected as chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 CIO Group. More than 200 top GovCon companies are represented in the 4×24 executive leadership program, whose mission is to create an environment that empowers idea exchange and relationship building betwee...
By Cameron Chehreh, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Intel and 2023 Wash100 Award winner One doesn’t need to look far to discover a tapestry of ways in which the federal government is successfully leveraging artificial intelligence. From the Air Force using AI to plan airlift operations to neuromorphic computing being used...
Eqlipse Technologies has purchased Stevensville, Maryland-based cloud analytics company Net Vision Consultants for an undisclosed sum. DLA Piper, a global law firm that advised Net Vision on the transaction, announced the acquisition Monday. Net Vision offers network analysis and engineering consulting services to the defense and intelligence secto...
Potomac Officers Club, the premier organization that specializes in gathering high-profile speakers and collaborative colleagues for government contracting industry events, is excited to announce its upcoming 2023 Healthcare Summit. This highly relevant, informative day of programming will tap into the most important things happening in the healthc...
By Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks Today’s zero trust conversation has matured since it was originally popularized in 2010 by John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts and a Palo Alto Networks alum. Although the urgency and capabilities for zero trust have exploded in t...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
An HII (NYSE: HII) division will help the U.S. Air Force manage its bombers portfolio under a five-year, $138 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will provide advisory and assistance services to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s directorate responsible for modernizing and sustaining bomber systems, the company said Mon...
The State Department has approved Australia’s request to procure up to 22 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers and related equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $975 million foreign military sale agreement. The proposed FMS transaction includes unitary and alternative warhead missile pods for the Guided Multiple ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has released a solicitation for the fourth iteration of a contracting vehicle that would provide for research and development efforts in various agency mission-specific areas. According to the SAM.gov notice, the Emergent IV broad agency announcement will have a potential $125 million ceiling value for R&D program fo...
