The Potomac Officers Club’s symposium on all things space domain is fast-approaching: the 5th Annual Space Summit will be held on March 5 at the Hilton-McLean in Virginia. At the event, the U.S. government’s most formidable space agency leaders will give the audience exclusive insight into where their priorities lie for the year ahead, which tr...
The U.S. Army awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a potential six-year, $249 million follow-on contract to support the Automated Installation Entry Next procurement project. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will support deployment of AIE technologies including commercial off-the-shelf products in the service branch’s installations in ...
David McKeown, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and senior information security officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD has published a strategy, a reference architecture and an implementation plan to achieve a zero trust-based architecture by 2027, DefenseScoop reported Thursday. “We want to achieve targeted zero trust by...
New Directions Technologies has won a potential five-year, $111.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide test, system and transition engineering support services. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division launched a competitive procurement process through a small business set-aside program and received three offers for the cost-plus-fixe...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $111.7 million delivery order under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design and test an electronic warfare support system for the U.S. Navy’s submarines. The award has a base value of $43.4 million and covers the design and qualification test...
BAE Systems has secured the regulatory clearances needed to acquire Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business and is set to implement measures to close the transaction in the coming days. In August, BAE agreed to buy Ball Aerospace for approximately $5.55 billion as part of the British defense contractor’s efforts to accelerate its space market str...
The advent of easy-to-use tools like ChatGPT has entrenched generative artificial intelligence into the public consciousness. With its vast array of potential applications, generative AI holds immense potential for a wide variety of domains. Like many other organizations, the Department of Defense is evaluating the effectiveness of this technology ...
ManTech‘s Advanced Systems subsidiary has secured a five-year, $43.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide force structure support services to the U.S. Army. The contractor will develop, modify, maintain and operate multiple model and simulation tools and associated databases to help the service branch analyze mul...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall as a winner of the 2024 Wash100 Award for driving rapid acquisition and artificial intelligence adoption and advancing modernization priorities. Vote for Frank Kendall as your favorite GovCon leader — visit Wash100.com to cast your ten votes today. This marks the fifth ...
Cloud modernization, zero trust cybersecurity and 5G connectivity are at the top of the priority list for the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer in 2024. DOD Principal Deputy CIO and 2024 Wash100 Award winner Leslie Beavers laid out several of the office’s key focus areas at a recent Arlington, Virginia conference, ...
