The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The U.S. Navy is looking at using artificial intelligence paired with unmanned vessels to solve its most urgent fleet readiness challenges in some of the most consequential theaters to the intensifying peer competition. In recent months, the service has made notable strides forward in exploring how AI and unmanned or minimally manned vessels can be...
The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined several focus areas of a $5 billion government initiative to fund public-private collaborations working to speed up the development of next-generation vaccines and other therapeutics. Project NextGen aims to streamline the process from drug development to government approval to prepare and pro...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw higher revenue from domestic and international government operations in the first quarter of 2023 on the back of significant contract wins during the three-month period. The data analytics technology provider saw its overall January-March government sales jump 20 percent year over year to $289 million, ac...
Beth Skoletsky, a human resources professional with 25 years of government contracting industry experience, has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as chief HR officer. She will lead the development and implementation of Ultra I&C’s HR strategy and operations, and align the organizational culture agenda to corporate objectives,...
Alicia Calef, a two-decade veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has joined Parsons (NYSE: PSN) to serve as senior vice president of operations for engineered systems. In a LinkedIn post, Calef said she will work with the business president and sector leaders to advance growth initiatives. She will lead strategic and tactical operations to m...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business completed its migration to the cloud by closing its final data center at the end of 2022 and has pushed the adoption of a multicloud strategy by working with several vendors to meet the company’s back-office requirements, CIO reported Friday. “We’ve gone through our digital transfo...
The federal government relies on healthcare services to fulfill various missions for the nation. Get to know the top healthcare and medical government contractors in 2023. Every year, the federal government allocates a significant portion of its budget to health care, aiming to obtain high-quality pharmaceuticals, therapies, and preven...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a five-year, $275.2 million contract to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration update and maintain ground infrastructure for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R Series constellation. The company will provide sustainment support to a system that receives data from G...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said his office will assume responsibilities for all 5G-related initiatives within DOD starting Oct. 1, and has been working with the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering to facilitate the transition, Breaking Defense repo...
