Brian Hale, formerly assistant director of the office of public affairs at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., has joined Tysons, Virginia-based cloud-native risk analytics platforms provider QOMPLX as vice president for global market development and public private partnerships. He will oversee outreach efforts to form partnerships in key markets,...
The space defense sector continues to grow in response to foreign adversaries’ anti-satellite and space-based weaponry developments. The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to rapidly developing and deploying robust space intelligence sensors that will supply military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded three companies a $49.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to conduct research and development of digital signal processing systems. Black River Systems, North Point Defense and Geon Technologies will compete for cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price orders to provide military per...
Google Cloud and the U.S. Air Force’s Rapid Sustainment Office have agreed to jointly develop a technology ecosystem that will use company-built computing platforms to support aviation sustainment work at the service branch. The partnership intends to incorporate Google’s Apigee application programming interface management tool and Antho...
Momentus has appointed former executives at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to serve on the board of directors for the publicly traded space infrastructure services company that will result from Momentus’ planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC). Kimb...
Recent developments in anti-satellite and space-based weaponry by foreign adversaries has prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to rapidly develop and deploy secure space intelligence sensors that will arm military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages over adversaries. During Potomac Officers Club’s Space ...
Larry Prior, an operating executive for global investment firm The Carlyle Group and five-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named to the board of directors of cybersecurity and data collection company Shift5. He joins the board as the Rosslyn, Virginia-based security technology provider aims to strengthen its foothold in the defense and commerc...
NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal propulsion system that could be used in future deep space exploration missions. Each company will receive a potential 12-year, $5 million contract from DOE’s Id...
Phil Kippen of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Chris Thomas of Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) said 5G enables government agencies to adopt cloud-native, distributed edge architectures and other technologies that could help them quickly come up with new services to respond to customers’ needs, improve the user experience and streamline activities. Thomas an...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a five-year, $320.67 million contract to manufacture man-portable, air defense systems for the U.S. Army. The company will provide Stinger missile production services to the branch over a five-year contract period that runs through June 2026, the Department of Defense said Monday. Army Contracting Comma...
