The State Department has approved Taiwan’s proposed foreign military sale request for aircraft spare parts and related equipment worth $228 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, on behalf of Taiwan’s armed forces, made the request to purch...
AAR Government Services (NYSE: AIR) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have been awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts by the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials contracts, which total an estimated $1.20 billion, cover maintenance and support services for the P-8A...
By Ron Lear, Vice President of Models and Frameworks at ISACA The Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI, has grown and evolved quite a bit in its 30-plus-year history. Tracing CMMI’s roots back to the Software CMM first released in 1991 for the Department of Defense, CMMI set the bar for process improvement and is...
The U.S. Intelligence Community, like the rest of the world, is embracing generative artificial intelligence. The CIA, in particular, is currently experimenting with generative AI across a wide range of use cases, and the agency expects to continue expanding its use of the groundbreaking technology into the future. How is the IC using gen AI?...
John Bell was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division, where he most recently served as technical director. The executive announced his promotion via a LinkedIn post published Saturday. According to the company website, the new HII Mission Technologies CTO is responsible for technical...
The State Department has approved the government of Romania’s $7.2 billion request to purchase F-35 aircraft, engines and related equipment. under the Foreign Military Sales program. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday the southeastern European country asked to buy 32 F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Ta...
NASA has awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued up to $121 million to Crown Consulting to support the aeronautics and exploration technology research and development efforts at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California. The NASA Academic Mission Services 2 IDIQ covers a large scope of new and emerging ca...
Brielle Terry has been appointed vice president and general manager of rocket motor systems at Anduril Industries, according to the executive’s LinkedIn post Thursday. Terry started her career in 2015 when she co-founded Adranos, a manufacturing company focused on solid rocket motors and solid rocket fuel. She served as its chie...
Strategic Innovation Group has acquired Excelicon for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its information technology capabilities for federal agency customers. SIG said Wednesday Washington, D.C.-based Excelicon has been providing cyber policy and guidance, enterprise architecture, data analytics, agile DevSecOps and transformation, IT m...
David Birken, a management consulting and technology expert, was tapped to serve as senior vice president of digital modernization & experience at ICF (NASDAQ: ICFI). The global consulting and technology services provider said Tuesday Birken will oversee ICF’s federal technology and digital experience business and supervise a tea...
