DynCorp International, which Amentum acquired last month, will compete for task orders to help the U.S. Air Force maintain rotary-wing aircraft platforms, flight equipment and weapon systems through a potential $835M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The military branch named DynCorp among the five awardees on the Rotary Wing Mainten...
Kathy Warden – chairman, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a 2020 Wash100 winner -- has been appointed to succeed Kelly Ortberg as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association's board of governors. AIA named Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, as...
Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has received an investment from and expanded its partnership with cloud-based data warehousing company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) to advance product integration and go-to-market initiatives to deliver improved user experience and help customers derive insights from data using AI. DataRobo...
Definitive Logic has named Michael Conlin, former chief data officer at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, as chief technology officer and appointed Ryan Elliott, former vice president of defense at GovernmentCIO, as chief growth officer....
Today, during Potomac Officers Club’s The Future of Data Management = The Death of Data Silos, notable executives across the industry and government will examine current cutting edge data methodologies and look to prepare government agencies for the future of data management. The virtual event will feature Garrett Berntsen, deputy chief data offic...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) rotary mission systems business has received a three-year, $89.2M contract modification to produce an additional 35 automated systems for U.S. Navy avionics testing and validation....
The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit have selected Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) to provide a cloud environment to host the service branch’s immersive training devices for remotely deployed personnel....
The Hon. Kevin Fahey, assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Defense, delivered the opening keynote address during GovConWire’s Defense Digital Acquisition and Modernization Forum on December 1st. Vince Vlasho, Managing Director, Defense & Intelligence with Accenture Federal Services (AFS), introduced Fahey and moderated his ...
The rapid increase in the use of endpoint devices driven by remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the exponential growth of data and Tomer Weingarten, co-founder and CEO of SentinelOne, said artificial intelligence could help agencies automate device monitoring and the analysis of large datasets to detect and respond to threats in...
Cobham Mission Systems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to equip new F/A-18 combat jets with GGU-12 oxygen concentrators and CRU-99 oxygen monitors. “Cobham appreciates this continued show of confidence in the performance of our oxygen life support equipment,” said Jason Apelquist, senior vice presiden...
