The Defense Innovation Unit is inviting industry and academia to propose commercial open source intelligence platforms that will work to help the Department of Defense collect and analyze information on science and technology developments by foreign state competitors and adversaries. DOD is eyeing U.S.-made OSINT prototypes that can use machine lear...
The Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has posted a draft solicitation for a potential seven-year, $250 million contract vehicle that seeks to equip mission training complexes with multipurpose training and simulation equipment. A notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says the Battle Command Training Equipment con...
James DeVaul, formerly a federal advisory partner at KPMG, has been appointed director of federal business at information technology services provider Bulletproof. The nearly 30-year federal market veteran will support Bulletproof’s growth efforts within the sector, the GLI company said Thursday. While at KPMG, DeVaul helped craft the firmR...
An industry team consisting of Battelle, Andelyn Biosciences and AmplifyBio has secured a position on an eight-year, $149 million contract vehicle to provide support services for a National Institutes of Health research program focused on the development of treatments for neurological conditions. The Central Ohio-based team will provide nonclinical ...
Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has acquired Reston, Virginia-based management consulting firm Amyx for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its cybersecurity and enterprise technology service offerings. Tetra Tech said Thursday Amyx will become part of its government services group as a result of the transaction. “The addition of Amyx to our...
Paul Shew, formerly a senior vice president at CAES, will officially assume his new role as president of Cubic’s mission and performance solutions segment on Jan. 9. He will report to Stevan Slijepcevic, president and CEO of Cubic, and oversee the strategic vision, product lines, growth initiatives and expansion efforts at CMPS, the company sa...
Private investment firm Highlander Partners has acquired DZYNE Technologies, a developer of unmanned aircraft systems for domestic and international defense and government customers, for an undisclosed sum. DZYNE’s drone offering uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology and is equipped with advanced autonomous navigation, full-motio...
By Kevin Plexico Looking back, it has been an eventful year in the government contracting industry, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic for the year ahead — including several trends to watch for. Last year, I wrote about significant trends for 2022 that were expected to impact how government contractors operate in...
In recent years, there has been a steadily increasing push to optimize and embolden systems for sharing information in the U.S. military. This is most clearly seen in the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control initiative, which entails an interlocking network of communications for warfighters. World events such as Russia’s ...
From his time as a naval aviator to his work at the Pentagon and at the Department of Homeland Security, all the way to his current position in the upper echelon of an impactful technology company, John Zangardi has accrued expertise in a wide range of topics. Zangardi is passionate about cybersecurity best practices, the...
