The Pentagon’s research and engineering enterprise is entering one of its most decisive restructuring periods in more than a decade. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael has formally trimmed the department’s sprawling list of 14 “critical technology areas” down to six streamlined priorities, a shift ...
Bhargavi Kodali has assumed new responsibilities as chief information officer at NT Concepts. She will lead enterprise IT operations, partner programs and digital modernization efforts across the company’s technology portfolio, the Vienna, Virginia-based contractor said Tuesday. NT Concepts provides adversarial artificial intelligence, generat...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International In today’s hyper-connected world, the systems and assets we take for granted—our power plants, water and wastewater systems, telecommunications networks, transportation systems, hospitals, financial institutions, food supply chains and the manufacturing base—are deeply interwove...
NT Concepts has appointed Mark Cabrey as CEO to lead the company as it shifts its focus toward accelerating the delivery of artificial intelligence-driven engineering, analytics and modernization capabilities for defense and intelligence customers’ critical national security missions. Who Is Mark Cabrey? Cabrey, who joined NT Concepts in 2019,...
AI is revolutionizing how the Department of Homeland Security performs its core mission: protecting the nation from its adversaries. By integrating advanced AI tools into missions such as threat detection, cybersecurity, border security and emergency response, the DHS is enhancing its ability to anticipate, identify and counter adversarial actors in...
BWX Technologies has received a $174 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture nuclear reactor fuel in support of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. BWXT said Thursday the Navy contract was awarded on Sept. 10. What Is the Scope of the Naval Nuclear Fuel Contract? Under the agreement, BWXT’s Erwin, Tennessee-based subsidiary Nuclea...
GovCons can’t get enough of Golden Dome, President Trump’s proposed homeland missile defense system. That’s for good reason. Not only has an independent estimate pegged Golden Dome as costing at least $252 billion over a 20 year period, but the Trump Administration has already appropriated $25 billion to start the program. As such...
AeroVironment is focused on rapidly ramping up the production of its Freedom Eagle kinetic counter-unmanned aircraft system missile to deliver it to the U.S. Army under a $95.9 million contract. The new award was secured through the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center Aviation & Missile Technology Consortiu...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The technological frontier is advancing at a breathtaking pace. We are in the early stages of a digital revolution where technologies once confined to science fiction—AI, quantum computing and the Internet of Things, or IoT,—are converging, remaking our world at a global scale. T...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The White House’s recent announcement placing quantum science and artificial intelligence at the top of federal research and development priorities for fiscal year 2027 represents more than a policy shift. It signals a recognition that these two technologies will define the nex...
