The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a potential $2B campaign that seeks to invest in research-and-development programs that focus on artificial intelligence. The AI Next campaign is a multi-year investment effort that aims to develop œthird wave AI technologies with contextual reasoning capabilities designed to facil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 7, 2018 ” SSL will help NASA conduct a feasibility study on the use of space-based commercial habitats to house satellite manufacturing operations in an effort to address challenges in launch schedules and volume, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 30. Parent company Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) said Aug. 29&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 7, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has partnered with the Drone Racing League to establish a competition focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to operate an unmanned aircraft system, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday participants in the $2M AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge...
Arlington, Va.-based technology firm ByteCubed has purchased Washington, D.C.-based creative agency CHIEF for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its information technology offerings to government and commercial clients. Lena Trudeau, newly appointed ByteCubed CEO, said in a statement published Tuesday the company will combine its techno...
Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems sector has received an $89M contract modification to build special mission computer systems and support equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps. The modification would increase the ceiling value of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers research and devel...
Mitre has won a potential $1.5B recompete contract from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to continue operating the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare Federally Funded Research and Development Center through 2023. The agency announced the contract award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. In a separate announcement, Mitre&nb...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded four companies spots on a potential seven-year, $900M contract to help CMS develop, implement and assess national communications campaigns. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the National Education Campaign & Outreach program is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract th...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a potential five-year, $75M task order from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to engineer health information management systems for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. The company said Wednesday it will integrate, provide training and support an application suite militar...
Technical and Project Engineering has promoted Theodore œTed Harrison, formerly senior vice president of TAPE™s products division, to the positions of senior vice president and chief operating officer. His promotion will take effect Sept. 10 and he will be in charge of business operations, internal growth and personnel with emphasis o...
Michael Knowles, former vice president and general manager of the air ranges business unit within Cubic™s (NYSE: CUB) global defense segment, has been named corporate senior VP and president of the segment in a move that will take effect Oct. 1. Knowles will succeed Dave Buss, a corporate SVP who will assume the role of senior...
