Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer of the Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the opening keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 2020 Procurement Virtual Forum on Tuesday, June 9th....
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has finalized its acquisition of security detection and automation businesses of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for approximately $1B in cash. Jim Moos, president of Leidos’ civil group, will oversee the acquired businesses, which operate with over 1,200 employees combined and provide automated tray return systems, airpo...
Stu Shea, CEO of Peraton and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, has commented on how the COVID-19 has disrupted the daily lives of Americans and the national economy, as well as how Peraton will combat the virus within the company, Peraton announced on Monday. ...
Jay Boisseau, AI and HPC technology strategist at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), has said collection of more digital data, emergence of new processors and graphics processing units and development of better algorithms are the three elements that could help federal agencies create a “perfect storm” to push the adoption of artificial intelligence...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Executive Mosaic has introduced virtual events to keep the GovCon community up to speed during these pressing times. Peter Warren Singer -- a political scientist, an international relations scholar and the author of "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution" -- will serve as a keynote speaker at Potom...
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded 46 companies spots on a potential $950M contract for core services in support of USSOCOM’s domestic and international enterprise requirements. The Department of Defense said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes knowledge-based services and subject matter expertise in suppo...
Joshua Marcuse, who served as executive director of the Defense Innovation Board for more than three years and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, as been tapped to serve as head of strategy and innovation at Google's (Nasdaq: GOOGL) global public sector unit, Defense One reported Friday....
The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a broad agency announcement to seek white papers on artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics for an embedded deep learning research program aimed at integrating autonomous systems into U.S. Air Force platforms....
American Roll On Roll Off Carrier Group has landed a potential $7.2B contract to provide logistics services to the U.S. Transportation Command to support the relocation of defense personnel and their families....
Less than 20 defense companies have applied for $17B worth of loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said the Treasury Department is working with DoD as it considers how to expand the eligibility requir...
