The State Department has cleared Poland™s request to buy a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles from the U.S. government under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $500 million combined. Poland asked to purchase Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System M31A1 Un...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2017 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) will deploy the Watson cognitive computing infrastructure for Australia’s defense department and provide InfoSec Registered Assessors Program certification services under an estimated $3.1 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ARN reported Monday the department aims to util...
Oliver Schabenberger, chief technology officer at SAS Institute, will assume additional duties as chief operating officer at the Cary, North Carolina-based analytics software company beginning on Jan. 1. SAS said Monday Schabenberger will oversee customer support, sales and marketing efforts and help the firm implement business priorities and provid...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured six contracts worth up to $198.4 million combined to deliver C-130 Hercules aircraft training systems and maintenance services to multiple Defense Department clients. The company said Monday it will help the U.S. Air Force study common architectures of various simulator elements to establish a c...
Nate Carey, formerly assistant controller of Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), has been promoted to vice president and controller of the Broomfield, Colorado-based aerospace contractor. He succeeds Shawn Barker, who transitioned to a new role as the corporation’s finance transformation VP, Ball said Monday. Carey joined Ball in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uskbkBiDXEY In this episode of Voices from DARPA, sociocultural anthropologist Adam Russell, a program manager with the Agency™s Defense Sciences Office (DSO), discusses his vision for a range of technologies that can help usher in a next-generation social science. At the crux of this future view are novel experi...
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for a combat vehicle program designed to address the capability gap in the service™s infantry brigade combat teams and operate alongside ground mobility and light reconnaissance vehicles within the IBCT structure. A FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 21 says the Mobile Protected Firepower program s...
Saudi Arabia will purchase precision-guided munitions from Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) under an agreement worth approximately $7 billion, Reuters reported Thursday. Sources told Reuters the proposed deal was part of a potential $110 billion package of weapons sales agreements that President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman bin Abd a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2017 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has entered into a partnership with NVIDIA in the development of a hands-on training program on artificial intelligence for employees at federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Nextgov reported Monday the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute will offer the prog...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 22, 2017 “ ArchIntel, a provider of concise actionable intelligence to business leaders today announced that it will provide the entire suite of ArchIntel business information services to a leading satellite communications technology innovator and services provider. ArchIntel will be providing the customer ...
