Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a potential three-year, $44.4M contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide software that could be used to analyze data associated with drug reviews and inspections, Bloomberg reported Monday....
President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, to serve as secretary of the Department of Defense, Politico reported Monday. Austin would be the first African American to lead DoD if confirmed by the Senate and sources said his selection for the top civilian post at the Pentagon could be announced as soon as T...
Five companies will compete for automated litigation support orders under a follow-on Department of Justice contract vehicle worth potentially $1.5B over six and a half years. DOJ selected CACI International (NYSE: CACI), Deloitte, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) as initial awardees on the Mega 5 ALS contract in late August and the latest ...
Christopher Miller, acting secretary at the Department of Defense, has named 11 individuals to join the Defense Business Board and advise the DoD leadership on business management matters....
Alion Science and Technology’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance group has been appraised at Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 4 for Development V2.0 (CMMI-DEV) for software development with Supplier Agreement Management (SAM). The appraisal was performed by the Software Quality Center. A maturity level 4 app...
The Department of Defense has issued eight contract actions worth $74.9M combined to help five companies preserve manufacturing and workforce capabilities that support U.S. military programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, said foreign military sales in fiscal year 2020 reached $50.78B, including $3.3B in arms sales funded through the Title 22 Foreign Military Financing Program, Defense News reported Friday....
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NuWave Solutions has acquired BigBear, a cloud-based, big data analytics company that provides solutions to the national security community, NuWave reported on Thursday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “BigBear’s data and analytics solutions bolster our existing capabilities to address the entire spectrum of information supe...
Deepinder Uppal, vice president of public sector technology innovation at Information Builders, will serve as the moderator of a panel discussion during Potomac Officers Club’s The Future of Data Management = The Death of Data Silos virtual event on Dec. 10. The panel will feature Lisa Sanders of the Department of Defense (DoD), Lt Col. Michael Mc...
