Brooke Smith, former vice president of business development and strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has been named CEO of Deep Water Point & Associates. He succeeds Howard Seeger, Deep Water Point’s founder who has led the federal management consulting services provider for nearly 19 years, the company said Monday. While at Salesforce, Smi...
Integrated Data Services has received a sole-source contract worth nearly $100 million to provide the U.S. Air Force with a commercial off-the-shelf system for program and financial management. Using the Comprehensive Cost And Requirement system, IDS subject matter experts will support enterprise operations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio...
Officials from the White House, Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense will hold on Tuesday a classified briefing on artificial intelligence with senators as lawmakers work to advance legislative measures for AI, Reuters reported Monday. Avril Haines, director of national intelligence; Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense; Arati...
The U.S. Navy has issued a sources sought notice seeking information on commercially available large diameter unmanned undersea vehicles that could be deployed as early as fiscal year 2024, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The service’s move seeks to comply with the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which directs the Nav...
The U.S. Department of Defense’s high-level technology incubation arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was formed in early 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first artificial Earth satellite: Sputnik 1. Now, DARPA officials are seeing the viability of the Soviet Union’s space program nearly seven decades ago re...
Daniel McCoy, former chief innovation officer at the Transportation Security Administration, has joined advisory firm BMNT as head of business development. He will aim to expand BMNT’s innovation and transition services to organizations involved in mission areas such as national defense, intelligence gathering, homeland security, space ex...
NASA has chosen seven companies to carry out technology development projects to support the agency’s human space exploration and commercialization goals in low Earth orbit. Each participating vendor in the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 program will develop systems through an unfunded Space Act Agreement, the agency said Fr...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured an $80.3 million sole-source contract to develop and demonstrate a communication system using military platforms and commercial space internet services. The company will help the service branch test system using common user terminal equipment under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet p...
A new McAleese & Associates report estimates most defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent growth in sales during the first quarter of 2023, indicating that labor availability is improving and supply chain deliveries are starting to stabilize. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an an...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest trends in the world today, from generative AI to sophisticated cybersecurity, with a promise to transform the industry and society. While 84% of chief executives recognize AI’s importance in achieving their growth objective, most organizations are lagging behind the curve regarding AI and machine ...
