Lockheed Martin has secured a potential five-year, $479.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 anti-submarine warfare combat system. The Navy’s latest contract action reflects the steady pace of investment shaping today’s maritime industrial base and undersea warfare portfolio. Discussions around acquisition...
Axiom Space has raised $350 million in new financing to advance development of its commercial space station and lunar spacesuits, the human space exploration company said Thursday. How Will Axiom Space Use the Funding? The investment will advance Axiom Station, intended to succeed the International Space Station, or ISS, and support production ...
Northrop Grumman has named Christopher Grady, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a previous Wash100 awardee, to its board of directors. The company said Friday Grady brings more than four decades of military leadership experience to the board as Northrop continues to focus on delivering technology capabilities to the U.S. and...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The future of innovation in both government and industry will not be distinguished by singular breakthroughs, but rather by the convergence and meshing of a number of different new technologies. Going forward, industries, national security, economic competitiveness, privacy and almost eve...
The General Services Administration has issued the initial list of 55 apparently successful offerors on the women-owned small business, or WOSB, pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services. As agencies continue to refine major contract vehicles like Polaris, the broader conversation around federal I...
Leidos has been awarded a $142 million contract to support the modernization of IT operations of the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office, or CESO, within the Defense Information Systems Agency. Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Digital Transformation Summit on April 22 brings together senior officials driving government IT modernization, ...
Axonius has announced a leadership transition as co-founder and CEO Dean Sysman moves into the role of executive chairman. Company President Joe Diamond is assuming the additional role of interim CEO, Axonius said in a LinkedIn post Monday. “We are perfectly positioned to arm organizations with true Actionability in the age of [artificial inte...
Potomac Officers Club has secured two of the most influential public sector AI leaders in the market today as keynote speakers for its 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit, underscoring the event’s ambition to become what many are calling the “Davos of GovCon.” Joe Larson, vice president and head of government at OpenAI and a ne...
Iron Legion JV, a joint venture tied to General Dynamics Information Technology and service-disabled veteran-owned small business Legion Systems, has won a $265.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide intelligence support services for U.S. Special Operations Command. The cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable award i...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond CMMC Level 2 certification has shifted from a distant requirement to an immediate priority. With the DFARS acquisition rule now in effect, contractors without certification are not eligible for many defense contracts. Yet despite years of discussion about CMMC requirements, only a small fracti...
