Jon Rucker’s penchant for being at the forefront of innovative technology development was sparked during his time as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. He was drawn to aerospace engineering, which led him to a job post-college at Lockheed Martin, where he focused his efforts on the tactical part of the business, conducting highly complex engineeri...
SpiderOak has received investments from the venture capital arms of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Stellar Ventures and will use the capital to speed up the deployment of zero-trust, cybersecurity platforms for government and commercial clients operating in the space sector. SpiderOak said Thursday the investment will h...
With a total funding revenue of $7.5 billion and a team of 18,000, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating consumables like grocery products as well as class one medical devices and invasive tools. Essentially everything you see in a hospital is managed by the FDA and an approximate 78 percent of everyday...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should work with industry and adopt the SecDevOps approach to develop and deploy “hardened, optimal code” and ensure the security of critical systems. He wrote that SecDevOps could provide organizations the ability to rapidl...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have secured other transaction prototype agreement modifications to extend the companies’ technology development services under the Missile Defense Agency’s Glide Phase Interceptor program. The additional funds would allow the contractors to fine-tune GPI concepts, as par...
Mitre Vice President and Chief Acceleration Officer Laurie Giandomenico has been elevated to the position of senior vice president. She will continue overseeing the not-for-profit company’s tech foundation, Engenuity, and incubation and innovation programs, the research organization said Monday. Giandomenico initially joined Mitre in 1991 as a...
John Gerbracht, a senior director of contracts at HII (NYSE: HII), has assumed a vice president position within the company’s mission technologies division, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. Gerbracht is a contracts management and administration professional with 27 years of government contracting industry experience. He came to H...
Over time, acquisition processes in the federal government, particularly in the Department of Defense and space realms, have become more flexible and amenable to specific situations and users. In the last half decade or so, veteran DOD servants say changes such as these and others have breathed new life into the development and production of...
HII (NYSE: HII) logged first-quarter revenue of $2.7 billion, up 3.8 percent from prior-year period figures, and the company attributed the growth to strong performance by its Newport News Shipbuilding and Mission Technologies divisions. The company said Thursday net earnings for the quarter totaled $129 million, or $3.23 per share, compared to $140...
