Blue Ivy Partners has secured a three-year, $148.6 million contract to license and deploy software applications for the U.S. Air Force’s Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded the Software as a Service 2.0 contract on a sole-source acquisition basis and will obligate an initial $14.3 mi...
James Winnefeld, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been appointed chair of Acalvio Technologies‘ newly created board that will advise the cybersecurity company on federal business matters. Acalvio said Thursday the federal advisory board will offer their perspectives as the Santa Clara, California-based software provider aims to help government...
The Federal Trade Commission has established an office to support its policy and law enforcement work by building up its capability to understand the evolving technological challenges and trends in the digital marketplace. FTC Chief Technology Officer Stephanie Nguyen will lead the newly created office of technology, which will be equipped with staf...
Karen Dahut, CEO of Google’s public sector division, has been selected to receive a 2023 Wash100 Award for her strategic vision in cloud platform delivery to government customers. This marks the third time that Dahut has been recognized in Executive Mosaic’s yearly list of executives who have shown exemplary leadership, innovation, vis...
Artificial intelligence has become increasingly important in the ever-evolving modern warspace. To address this emerging technology and harness its benefits to ensure decision-making advantage, the Department of Defense recently established the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which holds a goal of accelerating the department&#...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit will provide Joint Standoff Weapon Program support services to the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers under a five-year, $34.1 million contract. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will help clients engineer, analyze, integrate and test JSOW weapon systems as part of the indefinite-delivery/i...
Private equity investment firm Advent International and Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) are expected to continue their planned merger after the Westminster, Colorado-based geospatial intelligence services provider did not receive a competing alternative offer during the go-shop period that expired Tuesday. In December, Advent agreed to acquire Maxar...
Scientific Systems Co. has appointed the role of products division senior vice president to Tom Frost, former general manager of unmanned ground systems at Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY). Frost, who has nearly 23 years of experience in the robotics industry, will be responsible for the strategic growth and daily operations of the products team, S...
As global tensions rise and competition intensifies, the Department of Defense is making a clear pivot toward “hard target” adversaries. The impacts of this shift are echoing across the DOD and the intelligence community, and government leaders are looking at their strategies, capabilities and technologies from new perspectives. “We’ve reall...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office within the Department of Commerce is soliciting comments on the current state of artificial intelligence technologies and issues related to inventorship. The USPTO is asking the public to submit written responses to a list of questions related to the use of AI and machine learning in the invention creation...
