NASA has awarded $106M in total contract funds to 129 small businesses to further develop technology platforms that may help sustain human presence on the moon and Mars. The companies submitted 142 innovation proposals to develop, demonstrate and deliver space-based systems for planetary missions under the second phase of NASA’s Small Business...
The Potomac Officers Club hosted the 2019 Cybersecurity Summit on Wednesday to join GovCon leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss new cyber programs, initiatives technologies and ways that both sectors can better collaborate to achieve common goals. Following an enlightening keynote address from David Luber, executive director of the...
James LaCroix, a more than 35-year veteran of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as corporate director in charge of advanced technologies. He will report to John Donnelly, vice president of the advanced technologies office at HII, and oversee its work with NUWC Newport Division a...
Michael Shields, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as senior vice president of advanced technology for mission adoption. He will oversee platforms development and strategic planning efforts to integrate technologies in sensors, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and other areas with warf...
Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) has received a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence-based computing machine that can offer analytics and machine learning for national security, energy, healthcare and manufacturing applications. DOE said Tuesday it expects the “Frontier” supercomputer to roll ou...
Six companies have won potential 10-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts to provide command-and-control platforms and related technology for the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 14 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, each containing a tw...
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International (ACT 1) announced on Tuesday that the Virginia Chamber of Commerce recognized ACT I as one of the fifty fastest growing companies in Virginia in 2019 with the 24th position on the œFantastic 50 list. œIt is an honor for ACT I to be recognized by the Virginia Chamber of...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 7, 2019 ” Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, told her audience at the GDIT Emerge event last month that the company leverages its people and technology to continue to advance in the market, ExecutiveBiz reported April 25. MeriTalk reported April 24 that Gillilan...
Macquarie Capital has made an investment in Dovel Technologies as part of a partnership with the McLean, Va.-based information technology services firm. Dovel said Monday it will use the investment to expand its federal market presence across artificial intelligence, analytics, grants administration, scientific research and development and biomedica...
Col. Todd Sabala, mission assurance division chief of Cyber Directorate for the U.S. Army, will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Cybersecurity Summit on May 8th. At the event, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss cyber resiliency and how to collaborate effectively on new cyber program...
