Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
Melissa Logsdon, former chief people officer at IronNet Cybersecurity, has been appointed chief human resources officer at MAG Aerospace. The company said Wednesday that it is banking on Logsdon’s more than 20-year experience in HR to drive recruitment and talent development of its employees. She held an eight-year tenure at IronNet and was pr...
NASA is accepting industry proposals for the third iteration of its single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering safety and mission assurance engineering services. The SMAEC III procurement vehicle will support human spaceflight programs and projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Faci...
As the global defense landscape shifts, the U.S. Department of Defense must adapt its strategies, tactics and priorities accordingly. Executive Mosaic spoke with Airbus U.S. Space and Defense Chairman and CEO Rob Geckle in a new video interview to get a better understanding of the trends shaping the future of defense and how they’re impacting th...
The U.S. Department of Defense is deeply concerned about and invested in integrating their technologies, data and systems. This undertaking relates directly to the Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative, which aims to interconnect communication capabilities throughout the various domains, as well as the mission partner environment, which em...
Teleidoscope has secured a potential $100 million contract from the Department of Defense to proceed with the production of a prototype visual recognition and identification system. The artificial intelligence-based camera previously received funding from the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program earlier this yea...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop foundations to enable artificial intelligence-driven decision-making in uncontrolled environments such as mass casualty triage and disaster relief. Under the In The Moment program of DARPA, a Raytheon BBN-led team will train algorithms using scenario-based ex...
The Department of Defense has formed a task force that intends to advance the responsible development and deployment of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence technologies across DOD. DOD said Thursday the chief digital and AI office will lead Task Force Lima, which will help mitigate risk and address redundancy as the de...
Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics, and technology, accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, at the Potomac Officers Club’s recent Army Summit. The summit gathered the service branch’s top officials and stewards for a riveting day of speeche...
In the modern battlefield, rapid decision making capabilities are more critical than ever before, and in conflict scenarios, every second counts. Warfighters and military leaders rely not only on huge troves of data coming in from sensor networks and multiple sources, but more importantly on the analysis of that data to inform their most important...
