The U.S. Navy has chosen 10 companies for a potential five-year, $178.4 million contract vehicle to help the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific manage, engineer and secure information technology systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a $76.4 million initial award covering three base years a...
Mike Mulcahy, a digital transformation and strategy development leader for global public-sector aerospace and government system integrators at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said the talent shortage in the aerospace and defense industry reflects the need for the industry to keep up with technological developments. “The loss of talent is only the symp...
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and two-time Wash100 Award winner Dana Barnes was sought out by the world of information technology, rather than chasing it himself. He was recruited by IBM in the late 1990s, where he participated in the Business Development Professionals Program, initiating his passion for solving business problems with technology and a f...
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...
