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....
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards Executive Mosaic Opens Nominations for 2021 Wash100 Award Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, announced today that qualifying nominations are now being accepted ...
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...
President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order to guide agencies on the adoption of artificial intelligence to facilitate the delivery of services to U.S. citizens and promote public trust in AI. The executive order establishes nine common principles for the design, development, use and acquisition of AI: lawful; accurate, reliable and ef...
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, issued a joint statement Wednesday saying both chambers of Congress have reached agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021. ...
Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, has said the service branch plans to include nontraditional and legacy procurement offices in its planned acquisitions command, SpaceNews reported Wednesday....
The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit concept papers on kill chain integration platforms needed to ensure spectrum awareness of emerging threats. Topics of interest include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance advancement, machine learning and artificial intelligence, enhanced situational awareness, improvements to existing Air Fo...
Gartner has identified a MetTel telecommunications management company as a representative vendor in the research and advisory firm’s 2020 market guide for Telecom Expense Management Services....
