Firefly Aerospace has been qualified to compete for task orders under a potential 10-year, $700 million contract to provide its Alpha rocket to launch small satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. The company will serve as a launch service provider under the Streamlined Launch Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract to deploy NRO...
Benjamin Pimentel is a U.S. Marine Corps Lead for Warfighter Engagement, FutureG & 5G at the DoD’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering. He is one of the speakers for the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D on January 31, 2024. Get to know more about Benjamin Pimentel...
Henry Choi’s long career is not short on qualifications. He is currently vice president of growth and strategy for HII's cyber, electronic warfare and space segment, where his work focuses on market growth, strategy and client engagement.In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Choi spoke with GovCon Wire about how he and his team are envis...
Antenna Research Associates will work to mature the digital resistive film manufacturing process under a Phase IIB contract modification from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. ARA looks to advance the industrial systems to produce various standard and on-demand resistive film products to meet customer needs at production quantities....
Zaki Saleh currently serves as senior vice president of the health and civilian market at LMI, where he leads profit and loss and growth efforts for the sector. Saleh recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview with GovCon Wire, where he shared his insights on generative artificial intelligence and large language models and discussed ...
Frederick “Trey” Coleman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has been appointed chief product officer at government technology company Raft. In this newly created role, Coleman will oversee Raft’s product portfolio, corporate offerings strategy and innovation-related initiatives in support of government customers, the company said Wednesday. ...
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...
In May 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order calling on federal agencies to improve their cybersecurity posture. Zero trust, an approach to cybersecurity that relies on continuous authentication, is a core part of the order, and since it was released, public sector organizations have made strides in moving toward full zero trust imple...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing and supplying terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radars and spare components under a five-year, $321.27 million contract from Special Operations Command. Work on Silent Knight Radar systems will be conducted in McKinney, Texas; and Forest, Mississippi, through Dec. 31, 2028, the Department of Defense said...
In March 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order calling on federal organizations to strengthen their cyber practices to ensure the security of critical information. Since then, agencies have made strides in the adoption of modern cybersecurity practices, such as zero trust architecture, updated policies and more. For public sector heal...
