Sterling Jones, a two-decade industry veteran, was named vice president and general manager of Agile Development Group at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), according to a LinkedIn announcement. Jones previously served as general manager of military avionics at the Melbourne, Florida-headquartered defense contracting company. The executive has been ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has booked a $111.9 million undefinitized firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and deliver avionics long lead time parts and spares in support of the F/A-18E/F Block III and E/A-18G aircraft. The Department of Defense said Thursday the award, which was made against a previously issued basic ordering agreement, s...
The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has begun seeking information on a potential $100 million single-award contract to provide information technology and engineering support services to the 502d Trainer Development Squadron. The Trainer Developer II indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support the...
Mission Space Acquisition, a blank check company based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, intends to raise $100 million through an initial public offering, MarketWatch reported Thursday. The special purpose acquisition company disclosed its IPO plans in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. The newly incorporated SPAC in the Cayman Islands...
George Wilson and Tom Weston, former executives of ECS Federal, have partnered with private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners to invest and build a company dedicated to providing mission-critical technologies for federal government customers. Wilson and Weston intend to grow a company that offers technology products and capabilities to custo...
The story of the Wash100 Award popular vote contest this week remains the staggering vote count. In the last month, we have seen our first-ever contestant cross the threshold of 1,000 votes—Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson. Shortly thereafter, another competitor, IBM’s Susan Wedge, an early favorite this year and currently the number three...
David Kubicki, senior manager of solution architects for the public sector at Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW), said an ideal cloud security platform enables government agencies to address security requirements “while enabling them to expand for additional use cases as their cloud maturity increases.” “Adopting a platform designed with flexib...
Now a hot topic among both experts and casual users alike, generative artificial intelligence has made its mark on the world. Its recent explosion in popularity came along with the rise of ChatGPT, an OpenAI-developed chatbot that can generate text and images based on user prompts. Though the federal government has been experimenting with automation...
Blue Delta Capital Partners, a federal government market-focused venture capital firm, has invested in Herrick Technology Laboratories, a provider of software-defined radio, electronic warfare and signals intelligence products for the Department of Defense. Acie Vickers, CEO and co-founder of HTL, said in a statement published Wednesday the $25 mill...
The State Department has approved the government of Saudi Arabia’s request to procure communications and navigation terminals and associated equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $101.1 million foreign military sales agreement. Saudi Arabia has asked to buy 63 Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminal B...
