NavalX, the innovation cell serving the Department of the Navy, is emerging from a five-year “culture campaign” during which top leaders took a hard look at how to foster an environment for rapid, meaningful innovation to support the nation’s sailors and Marines. Now, it’s moving into a new era: NavalX 2.0. “In 2018, Secretary Geurts...
Digital assets are becoming an increasingly valuable and influential aspect of the U.S. Department of Defense’s mission. Whether it’s cybersecurity fortification, electronic warfare or cloud migration, digital transformation efforts are widespread and come with a host of reforms, new programs and reinventions of preexisting systems. Here is a gu...
Markon Solutions aims to offer a range of support services to the federal sector once it completes its separation from parent company Anser Advisory. Ray Carney, chief delivery officer of Markon, will transition to the CEO role and Matthew Dean, founder of Markon and a top executive at Anser Advisory, will serve as chairman of...
Client Solution Architects has won a recompete contract to provide continuous watch stander support services to Commander Navy Installations Command’s Emergency Management Department. CSA said Thursday it will help CNIC develop and sustain the U.S. Navy’s shore infrastructure by maintaining situational awareness and managing critical inf...
Recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense as a top priority, artificial intelligence offers numerous benefits for the warfighter – but these potential advantages are not limited to the nation alone. While the DOD has accelerated its work to develop and deploy AI technologies, so have U.S. adversaries, making the race to perfect AI tools mo...
Maria Demaree, a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s space business, received her 2023 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent presentation ceremony. The Wash100 list annually recognizes the most influential and impactful executives working in the government and government contracti...
By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile In many ways, the contracts team within an aerospace and defense or government contracting organization plays the role of “air traffic control” for each federal contract — from those they consider pursuing (pre-flight), to those they win and manage (execution), to contract close-out (flight plan...
DroneShield, an Australian publicly listed company, has expanded its U.S. headquarters in Northern Virginia and added new members to its team in response to the increasing demand for its counter-unmanned aircraft systems across the U.S. The company said Tuesday its headquarters in Fauquier County, Virginia, will serve as a hub to facilitate collabor...
Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government group at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said fraud and scams using artificial intelligence are going undetected and that the Biden administration and Congress should prioritize actions to address the threat posed by AI-assisted fraud schemes, Fox News reported Tuesday. “I suspect over the next 12 months, if the g...
Trident Maritime Systems, a portfolio company of investment affiliates of J.F. Lehman & Co., has purchased the assets of Custom Alloy Corp., a provider of alloyed forgings, pipe and fittings to defense and industrial customers. CAC supplies materials for aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and other U.S. Navy programs, JFLCO said Tuesday. “T...
