The State Department has cleared a potential $5 billion foreign military sales request of Germany to buy up to 600 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and related equipment and services from the U.S. government. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the prime ...
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work approached Michael Stewart, director of the U.S. Navy’s Disruptive Capabilities Office, and asked if, given all of the rhetoric around artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, the service branch is actually making real use of the technologies and “doing something with it.” Until a f...
Client Solution Architects, an integrated technology provider, has secured a $133 million award under the Mission Training Complex Capabilities Support II contract of the U.S. Army to support the Joint Multinational Simulation Center in Europe. CSA said Thursday it will continue providing support for JMSC’s Mission Command Information Sy...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has finalized its $200 million acquisition of BlackSignal Technologies as part of efforts to enhance its artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and electronic warfare capabilities and broaden its clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Chantilly, Virginia-based Parsons said Friday BlackSignal will ope...
Summit Technology Group has appointed Marc Tate, a federal technology industry executive, as executive vice president of federal sales for the company’s public sector business. STG announced Tate’s appointment in a LinkedIn post. Tate brings to the role decades of experience in federal and financial technology sales, project management, corp...
A new position and office needs to be created to properly manage the United States’ alliances with other nations and support its success in the Great Power Competition, according to the Defense Innovation Board. In a mid-July report, the Department of Defense advisory group said that the DOD is lacking a “central standing mechanism for...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies positions on a potential five-year, $145.9 million blanket purchase agreement to provide Appian commercial off-the-shelf software and hardware, propriety appliances and information technology maintenance support. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego...
Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has completed its purchase of Garrison Technology as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings for customers in government, critical infrastructure and regulated industries. Everfox said Wednesday it will add to its portfolio of threat protection, cross domain and insider risk platforms ...
As government and industry entities continue to implement artificial intelligence capabilities throughout their organizational strategies, it has become critical that they also build trust into the environments where these programs are deployed. During a panel discussion dubbed “Trusted Mission AI” at Leidos‘ seventh annual Supplie...
McLean, Virginia-based 22nd Century Technologies Inc. has acquired TreasurySoft in a transaction that expands its enterprise resource planning practice and capabilities to deliver digital transformation platforms to federal, state, local government and transit agencies. TSCTI said Tuesday TreasurySoft provides PeopleSoft and Oracle Fusion ERP Treasu...
