5G paved the way for groundbreaking developments and advancements in communications networks over the past few years. Now, with the emergence of 6G and NextG, organizations across the public and private sectors are harnessing the power of spectrum to propel the country into a new era of networking. GovCon Wire spoke with Todd Martin, president ...
A senior Space Development Agency official said SDA is advancing a project that seeks to determine whether space-based sensors could replace aircraft and ships in collecting telemetry, GPS signals and other data from ballistic and hypersonic missile tests as part of cost reduction initiatives, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The official told the ...
The Department of Defense’s innovation arm and acquisition office have updated DOD’s cleared list of small unmanned aircraft systems under the second iteration of the Blue sUAS project with the addition of drones from Skydio and Flightwave, bringing the number of vendors offering compliant drones to 10. The updated list now includes Skydio’s X...
Kelly Douglas, a recruitment industry leader with experience in the public and private sectors, has joined SilverEdge Government Solutions as vice president of talent acquisition. SilverEdge said Wednesday she will be responsible for creating and cultivating talent acquisition strategies, program and tools as well as for guiding SilverEdge...
From his time as a naval aviator to his work at the Pentagon and at the Department of Homeland Security, all the way to his current position in the upper echelon of an impactful technology company, John Zangardi has accrued expertise in a wide range of topics. Zangardi is passionate about cybersecurity best practices, the...
Howard Levenson, former regional vice president at Databricks, said government agencies looking to advance evidence-based decision-making in support of their missions should consider adopting open source-based technologies that could enable them to collect and analyze structured and unstructured data. Levenson discussed how machine learning and an o...
Zero trust has become a major area of focus for the U.S. government in the last few years. As federal agencies move to the cloud, extend capabilities to the tactical edge and accelerate their modernization efforts, zero trust is changing the way our country’s critical infrastructure, assets and data are protected. Learn more about zero...
Maury Cupitt, regional vice president of sales engineering at Sonatype, said government agencies should understand the importance of visibility and automation in the detection and mitigation of risks associated with open source software components. Cupitt wrote that agencies should adopt a platform that could enable them to ensure the security of th...
Image by Kristi Blokhin from Shutterstock.com CACI International (Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc) is a top-tier U.S. federal government contractor based in Reston, Virginia. Most of its customers are from the defense, security, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence departments. In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2021, the company’s c...
By Rich Wilkinson Some folks in the government contracting world are so consumed by metrics that if there happens to be no metric for a particular thing, they question whether that thing is worth measuring at all. But just because something is hard to measure doesn’t mean it isn’t important. As we emerge from the...
