Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a potential five-year, $89.9 million contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to provide a platform for its Safety Analytics, Forecasting and Evaluation Reporting project. NNSA personnel will use Palantir’s software to integrate data, analyze and visualize safety metrics from variou...
Teresa Carlson, a more than 25-year cloud and data management industry executive, will officially assume the role of president and chief growth officer at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) on April 19. Carlson, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, will report to Splunk President and CEO Doug Merritt and will lead efforts to drive business transformation across g...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, chief information officer and director of command, control, communications and computers/cyber at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for spearheading the development of the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy and leading innovative technology ef...
Venture-backed defense technology provider Anduril Industries has bought Georgia-based Area-I, which maintains a portfolio of autonomous tube-launched unmanned aerial systems or air-launched effects, for an undisclosed amount. Anduril said Thursday it seeks to add software-defined mission autonomy and intelligent teaming applications to the company&...
Tyto Athene, a government systems integrator backed by Arlington Capital Partners, has wrapped up the acquisition of AT&T’s (NYSE: T) defense-focused information technology professional services business known as Government Solutions Inc. Chris Meilhammer, most recently president and chief operating officer of Tyto, will serve as CEO of the co...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a two-year, $79.4 million contract to provide Small Diameter Bomb Increment 2 testing platforms to the U.S Air Force’s joint acquisition program with the U.S. Navy. The sole-source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract will also include tasks to assemble, test and integrate...
David Shive, chief information officer of the General Services Administration, has been selected to be the midday keynote speaker for the Potomac Officers Club’s Annual CIO Forum on Wednesday, April 7. Shive has led the GSA’s information technology enterprise over the past six years and concurrently serves as vice chairman of the CIO Cou...
The Potomac Officers Club’s 2nd Annual CIO Forum will feature a panel discussion on how the significant events of 2020 impacted the technology landscape in areas such as cloud computing, cyber, artificial intelligence and data science. Carlton “Bubba” Fox, a senior vice president and chief product officer at NCI Information Systems, will m...
General Atomics has acquired analytics and software engineering services provider Commonwealth Computer Research Inc. for an undisclosed sum in a move to help increase government customers’ access to situational awareness data. Charlottesville, Virginia-based CCRi works with public and private sector clients to help them adopt big data managem...
Funeral services in honor of Dr. Jack London, a 49-year veteran of CACI International (NYSE: CACI), are scheduled to take place at U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 18 at 2:00 p.m. and at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on June 19 at 10 a.m. An interment ceremony will be held...
