President Biden’s newly released national security strategy outlines the White House’s plan for maintaining the country’s competitive edge on the global stage, strengthening coalitions with partners and allied forces and accelerating the modernization of our military. Notably, the new strategy focuses largely on outcompeting China and con...
Andrew Pahutski, a Department of Defense veteran with 27 years of civilian and military service, has been appointed vice president of economic security programs at Systems Planning and Analysis. Pahutski will be responsible for overseeing the development of the company’s portfolio of advanced analytics offerings in economic security and intern...
NASA has awarded contracts to SpaceLink and the U.S. arm of Kongsberg Satellite Services to conduct studies aimed at exploring industry capabilities to provide commercial direct-to-Earth and lunar space relay communications and navigation services in support of Artemis lunar exploration missions. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded SpaceLink ...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
Engineers say satellite companies seeking to link smartphones and other mobile devices on the ground could turn that target into a reality with cheaper rockets and advances in satellite technology but would need to invest billions of dollars to achieve that goal, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch said equ...
The Department of Defense’s innovation arm and acquisition office have added small unmanned aircraft systems from eight companies to DOD’s cleared list of drones as part of the second iteration of the Blue sUAS project. DOD will not require these cleared unmanned platforms to secure an exception to policy to buy or operate since these...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has finalized its purchase of EverWatch from investment firm Enlightenment Capital, as part of efforts to accelerate mission delivery and technology development cycles in support of national security customers. Booz Allen said Friday the acquisition gives the company access to EverWatch’s cleared personnel and exper...
Todd Hughes, former senior vice president of technology of BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI), has been appointed VP and chief innovation officer at autonomous software provider Scientific Systems Company Inc. Hughes will lead SSCI’s efforts to grow its work in the artificial intelligence-powered mission autonomy software area, the company said Thur...
Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire a CAES division that manufactures radiation-hardened microelectronic products and subsystems intended for space operations. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the pending acquisition of CAES Space Systems is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023, Veritas said Thursday. Mike Elias, a seni...
The global intelligence landscape is rapidly evolving, and the intelligence community in the United States is updating its tradecraft and adapting to meet the needs of the current environment. Now, IC experts are reflecting on lessons we’ve learned from history and how they can inform U.S. intelligence into the future. Doug Wolfe Doug Wolfe, CEO...
