President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act that seeks to authorize $886 billion in military spending for fiscal year 2024, Reuters reported. The Senate voted 87-13 to pass the FY 2024 NDAA, which cleared the House in a 310-118 vote. The NDAA reflects a 3 percent hike in the...
Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies should learn how to navigate the repository of artificial intelligence use cases as they work on strategies to incorporate AI into their workflows and align such strategies with their specific requirements. In an opinion piece published Thursday in Federal Tim...
An RTX subsidiary (NYSE: RTX) has received a $407.6 million modification to a task order for the development of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile in support of the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment. In September 2022, a Raytheon and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) team secured a $985.3 million task order to bui...
Jim Patterson was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at CIS Secure and will be responsible for leading the technology team at the secure communication and defense services company. CIS Secure said Patterson previously served as vice president of technology solutions at Intrepid Solutions and Services, which the company acquired in Augu...
Mr. Jay Dryer is the closing keynote for the 10th Annual Defense Research and Defense Summit on January 31, 2024. Register for the annual summit, organized by the Potomac Officers Club, to learn about the SCO’s development of cutting-edge technologies to strengthen the defense landscape. Catch Jay Dryer’s Keynote for the 10th Annu...
Today, the digital environment plays a key role in the success of defense missions, making it more important than ever that forces located in remote environments – also referred to as the tactical edge – are able to stay connected to critical Department of Defense networks and systems. At the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads a...
ESGI, Korn Ferry, JDG Associates, McCormick Group and Odgers Berndtson are among Hunt Scanlon Media’s current top 20 recruiting firms that provide assistance to local, state and federal governments. In an email with Executive Mosaic, ESGI President Evan Scott said the retainer based executive search firm secured the seventh spot on the list fr...
Geopolitical tensions and developments are shaping the defense technology landscape, and the Pentagon is adapting its priorities to meet emerging and increasingly urgent warfighter needs. As adversarial activity rises, United States defense officials are focusing on these five areas, among others, to advance the country’s technological capabilitie...
Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said the Department of Defense seeking to advance adoption of trusted artificial intelligence tools needs to have a proper data management platform to better coordinate and facilitate sharing of data in motion between DOD leaders and warfighters. In an opinion piece published Tuesday in C4ISRNET...
The Chugach Logistics and Facilities Services joint venture has won a civil engineering base operation support contract from the U.S. Air Force worth $249 million. Under the firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials contract, the company will support the MacDill Air Force Base by providing services and items that would otherwise come from a civil enginee...
