Kevin McAleenan, Topper Ray and Luanne Pavco have been appointed to serve on E3/Sentinel's board of advisers to help the company ensure it applies mission skills and technologies to support customer missions....
James Geurts, acquisition chief at the U.S. Navy and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the service has provided defense contractors $600M in payments it previously put on hold to ensure performance on awarded contracts, Reuters reported Tuesday....
Ty Schieber, chairman of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification accreditation body and senior director of executive education at the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, will speak on the “Implementing CMMC” panel at Potomac Officers Club’s CMMC Forum 2020 on Wednesday, June 24th. ...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of public sector at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, has said federal agencies should leverage artificial intelligence to manage mundane tasks and allow employees to focus on mission-critical functions. "With the federal government being one of the largest collectors of data, AI has great p...
The U.S. Army has channeled funds from its simulation-based Squad Advanced Marksmanship Trainer initiative to other virtual training programs such as the development of a synthetic training environment, National Defense magazine reported Monday....
AAR (NYSE: AIR) has secured a potential five-year, $125M contract to manufacture and repair 463L cargo pallets for the U.S. Air Force. The sole-source firm-fixed-price contract has one base year plus four option years....
Techno-Sciences Inc., a developer of satellite-aided tracking systems, has purchased Orolia's global satellite search and rescue unit through a management buyout transaction....
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc and disruption on many aspects of security, work, and commerce. The virus has also called attention to the vulnerabilities of the supply chain, whether it be in secure sourcing and reliability of operations, or surrounding the cyber insecurities of interconnectivity....
Tim Gillis, managing partner of the Washington metro area offices at KPMG, has been named by the American Heart Association as chair of the 2020 Greater Washington Region Heart Walk. The Heart Walk is an annual noncompetitive event that promotes physical activity through a one- or three-mile walk, helps raise funds for health initiatives and celeb...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal business has received a potential $340.9M contract to provide full system development lifecycle services to help the Department of Commerce consolidate core finance, acquisition, property, enterprise data warehouse and other business applications into a single suite of systems....
