The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded 10 companies positions on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle to acquire digital products and services to facilitate better user experiences. According to an award notice published Tuesday, the Secure, Performant, Reliable and User-Centered Experiences IDIQ is a set-aside program...
The U.S. government is investing heavily in collaboration, both inside and outside the nation’s borders. As the country works to revitalize its own industrial base, it is working side-by-side with allies and other international partners to stay ahead of competitors in today’s complicated geopolitical landscape. The Potomac Officers Club&...
As is evident from the modern way battles have been waged in Ukraine and elsewhere, warfare and military relations are becoming increasingly driven by technology and data. If we engage in a conflict with near-peer or peer adversaries like China down the line, “data is going to be key to that” too, predicted Brad Ahlskog, chief...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is the Department of Defense’s latest effort to enforce cybersecurity requirements for contractors. While CMMC is not necessarily new — read below for more information about CMMC’s history — there are a few things contractors need to know about the program as it becomes a defense contrac...
This month, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is gearing up to launch the largest data labeling request for proposals in the U.S. government, according to NGA Director VADM Frank Whitworth. The opportunity — worth over $700 million — will involve helping NGA train AI-powered computer vision models to identify objects and targets of int...
Redwire (NYSE: RDW) has closed its purchase of spacecraft developer Hera Systems in a transaction that expands its portfolio of spacecraft to support national security space missions in geostationary orbit. In a statement published Tuesday, Redwire Chairman and CEO Peter Cannito said the acquisition marks a key milestone in the space infrastructure ...
Although elaborate technological demands are certainly one hurdle to the Department of Defense achieving Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the quieter but no less pressing challenge is government bureaucracy, Breaking Defense reported earlier this month. “It’s a very complex political problem, I think the tech is the ea...
In GovCon Wire’s latest Executive Spotlight interview, we sat down with Ashutosh Gokhale, chief financial officer and senior vice president of business management at HII Mission Technologies, to learn more about the company’s culture and its future endeavors. Since he joined HII in 2021, Gokhale has been responsible for Mission Technologies’ ...
The Defense Intelligence Agency is working on an artificial intelligence-powered system that once deployed will be able to quickly sift through vast amounts of data, perform intelligence analysis and help DIA analysts to focus on more complex intelligence tasks. This program has made significant progress thus far. But what’s next for MAR...
Rheinmetall is set to acquire for $950 million Loc Performance, a vehicle specialist headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan, with a workforce of around 1,000 employees and customers in the civilian as well as defense sectors. Loc Performance’s offerings include drivetrains, suspensions and track systems, many of which are used by U.S. military gr...
