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...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $6.07B contract to manufacture PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor systems for the U.S. Army and international defense customers from fiscal year 2021 through FY 2023....
The National Institutes of Health has launched a new initiative to accelerate the development and commercialization of testing technologies for the new coronavirus. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program will use $1.5B in federal stimulus funds to invest in efforts that work on new COVID-19 testing technologies, NIH said Thursday....
Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has said that the company seeks to build on its expertise to support the U.S. Air Force through a joint venture....
CGI (NYSE: GIB) has secured a potential six-year, $267M task order to help the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency create a shared services platform to support federal customers under the Department of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative....
General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) defense businesses earned $7.1B in total revenue for its fiscal 2020 first quarter that ended March 29, a modest increase from the same period last year. "In this time of crisis and uncertainty, our balance sheet remains strong," Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics and a 2020 Wash100 awa...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has teamed up with Red Hat and VMware (NYSE: VMW) to compete for the U.S. Army’s potential $957M contract vehicle for cyber training services in support of the Persistent Cyber Training Environment. The Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology contract seeks to support the manag...
