On Thursday, March 22nd, the Potomac Officers™ Club hosted the 2018 Border Protection Innovations and Technology Forum, where keynote speaker Ron Vitiello, acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and chief of U.S. Border Patrol for the Department of Homeland Security, addressed a range of technological security challeng...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential 42-month, $95 million contract to develop a biometric identification platform for the Department of Homeland Security. The company said Monday it will develop the first and second increments of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology and provide systems integration support under the contract ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHDaFc3Iw0 Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, says his command must focus on many domains, including space and cyber, to deter America™s adversaries....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $523.8 million contract modification for the supply of updated Patriot missiles to the U.S. Army as well as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Romania. The company will provide Patriot Advanced Capability-3 enhancement and cost reduction initiative missiles along with complementary supp...
Over 200 industry professionals were attendance on Wednesday as the Potomac Officers Club convened at the Defense Research and Development Summit to discuss the programs that those in the intelligence community know that they cannot talk about without a clearance. Given the rapid pace that technology advances in the private sector, the Department of...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential five-year, $2.30 billion contract from the U.S. Army to provide system-of-systems engineering support for Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target weapons. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will support Patriot-related software and refresh systems depl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTvgkO2Xw4 The autonomous Swarm demonstration, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, highlights a first-of-its-kind technology that gives naval warfighters a decisive edge through enabling unmanned Navy vessels to overwhelm an adversary. The demonstration took place on the James River in Virginia during the firs...
At the Potomac Officer’s Club 5th Annual Intel Summit on Thursday, keynote speaker Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence a 2018 Wash100 recipient, addressed the room with his observations on the landscape of the intelligence community, the challenges facing agencies in threat detection and how to keep pace with technological advanc...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will provide information technology operations support to a Defense Department organization focused on efforts to counter improvised explosive devices under a potential five-year, $325.9 million task order. The company said Wednesday it will implement a modern communications technology to help...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 22, 2018 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has entered into an agreement with Department 13 International for the joint development and sale of counter-drone technologies for defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 8. D13 said Jan. 8 the teaming deal initially focuses on business opportunities for its Mesmer counter...
