The Department of Energy is investing up to $50 million in a new program to help private sector organizations develop fusion power systems. DOE said Thursday the funding initiative provides U.S. businesses an opportunity to partner with national laboratories and universities to demonstrate the commercial viability of fusion pilot plant concepts. The...
Modernization and digital transformation are linchpins of today’s GovCon landscape. As new technologies emerge, existing ones evolve and missions shift, the public sector is looking to industry more and more to help bring the U.S. government into the modern era and poise our military forces for technological dominance. Firms like Client Solut...
Jeramie FitzGerald, most recently senior director for strategic initiatives at employee-owned engineering and tech services contractor Modern Technology Solutions Inc., assumed the role of vice president of business development at MTSI, he announced in a LinkedIn post. In this role, he will oversee the national security division’s planning, de...
The U.S. Army plans to release a solicitation for a consortium management organization to oversee a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion other transaction agreement in support of the Detroit Arsenal Innovation program. The service will use the DAI OTA to advance several technology objectives in several areas such as autonomy and connectivity; cybersecuri...
A team of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $985.3 million contract to build and demonstrate an air-launched, scramjet-powered weapon system designed to operate at a speed greater than Mach 5. The service branch is obligating $100 million for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile procurement effor...
Karen Dahut, president of Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) global defense business, has been hired by Google to lead a subsidiary that aims to help U.S. government customers build applications and update systems with cloud technology. The more-than-three-decade industry veteran will assume her new position Oct. 31, when she officially retires...
David Egts, a technology industry veteran and a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has been appointed the first field chief technology officer for the public sector at MuleSoft, he announced in a LinkedIn post. He will serve as a technical executive responsible for communicating MuleSoft’s product roadmap and corporate strategy ...
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) has promoted Tony Barrett, who most recently led the company’s cyber and engineering sector, to president and general manager of federal markets in a series of senior executive appointments to its management team. Barrett will oversee the Columbia, Maryland-based firm’s consulting, analytics, cyber and other digit...
Experts believe that full-scale quantum computers could be one of the most monumental technological breakthroughs of the century. Quantum promises major impacts in everything from financial services and complex manufacturing to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and beyond. But the technology is not without risk. Quantum computers “bring with ...
Reggie Brothers, CEO of BigBear.ai and a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was presented with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. “Dr. Reggie Brothers fits into an elite group of CEOs that lead not only with a cha...
