The U.S. Army plans to issue a final request for proposals for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program’s concept design phase later this month in an effort to find a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said Army officials briefed industry on the potential $4.6B OMFV procurement effort a...
A new Deloitte analysis forecasts global spending on defense programs to grow about 2.8 percent in 2021 as countries continue to build up their military capabilities in response to increasing geopolitical tensions amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
A J.F. Lehman & Co. investment affiliate has purchased Atlanta-based CodeMettle, a communication network and data management software provider to both the defense and commercial sectors, for an undisclosed sum....
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....
