The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
Kurt Bender, a 15-year information technology veteran in the aerospace and defense industries, has joined BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) as director of IT. Bender announced his new role on a LinkedIn post Sunday and said he looks forward to driving digital transformation in the government and commercial sectors. He most recently served as senior dire...
Systecon North America has received a contract to provide the U.S. Special Operations Command a suite of software platforms to support logistics and operational requirements. The company said Monday that SOCOM will use the Opus Suite software to streamline logistical processes and enhance asset availability and mission readiness by analyzing and mod...
Michele Flournoy, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm WestExec Advisors and a former Department of Defense official, has been appointed to Rivada Networks‘ board of directors. Flournoy said in a statement released Thursday she aims to help Rivada “transform the global communications landscape” with its OuterNET satellite n...
Artificial intelligence company BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) posted a 2 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the second quarter of 2023 and booked two key contracts from the U.S. Army during the quarter. Sales in the April-June period totaled $38.5 million, compared to $37.6 million a year earlier, while backlog as of June 30 stood at $206...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) division will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop foundations to enable artificial intelligence-driven decision-making in uncontrolled environments such as mass casualty triage and disaster relief. Under the In The Moment program of DARPA, a Raytheon BBN-led team will train algorithms using scenario-based ex...
Now managed by the Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Advana serves as the Department of Defense’s cloud-based business performance metrics platform. It is growing in reach, and since CDAO assumed responsibility for the platform in 2022, its user base has grown from 40,000 to over 72,000. While the platform ...
The Department of Defense has formed a task force that intends to advance the responsible development and deployment of large language models and other generative artificial intelligence technologies across DOD. DOD said Thursday the chief digital and AI office will lead Task Force Lima, which will help mitigate risk and address redundancy as the de...
Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics, and technology, accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, at the Potomac Officers Club’s recent Army Summit. The summit gathered the service branch’s top officials and stewards for a riveting day of speeche...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) posted a 4 percent year-over-year jump in revenues to $1.7 billion for the fourth quarter ended June 30 and an 8 percent increase to $6.7 billion for the full fiscal year 2023. The Reston, Virginia-based government technology services contractor attributed the higher sales to recently completed acquisitions and 6 perc...
