Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, reported on the multidomain operations concept driving capability tradeoffs worth up to $5B per year in the U.S. Air Force's program objective memorandum for fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2025....
Ricci Mulligan, former acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs' information and technology office, has joined Grant Thornton as a director within the public sector healthcare practice....
Joseph Brendler, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined the senior advisory board of information technology firm Ultimate Knowledge....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $266.2M contract modification to obtain F-35 special tooling and test equipment for U.S. military and non-Department of Defense customers....
Representatives from several technology companies held a meeting Wednesday with government officials at Facebook’s (Nasdaq: FB) Menlo Park, Calif.-based headquarters to discuss how to facilitate information sharing and detect threats in order to protect the 2020 U.S. elections from potential foreign interference, the New York Times reported Wednes...
A new policy alert from Washington, D.C.-based Financial Integrity Network says illegal financing threats and weaknesses in China’s anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism measures increase the risk posed by criminal actors operating in the East Asian country to multinational corporations and banks worldwide. Juan Zarate, ...
A General Atomics business unit has landed a potential five-year, $93M contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to integrate and test modified variants of two unmanned aerial vehicle platforms. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will incorporate Special Operations Forces Peculiar modifications into MQ-9 and MQ-1C medium altitude...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, wrote about a recent press briefing where Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord discussed ongoing procurement reform and innovation efforts at the Department of Defense. He noted that Lord, also a 2019 Wash100 awardee, hinted at proposed fiscal 2020 National Defense...
Lisa Disbrow, who served as the 25th undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force from January 2015 to June 2017, has been appointed to serve on the audit and risk management committee of BlackBerry's (NYSE: BB) board of directors....
Diversified Maintenance Systems has won a potential five-year, $90M contract to provide specialty trade construction services at one U.S. Marine Corps installation and three naval bases located in California....
