Blue Ivy Partners has secured a three-year, $148.6 million contract to license and deploy software applications for the U.S. Air Force’s Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded the Software as a Service 2.0 contract on a sole-source acquisition basis and will obligate an initial $14.3 mi...
James Winnefeld, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been appointed chair of Acalvio Technologies‘ newly created board that will advise the cybersecurity company on federal business matters. Acalvio said Thursday the federal advisory board will offer their perspectives as the Santa Clara, California-based software provider aims to help government...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will help the U.S. Navy equip Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers with a hypersonic boost glide system under a potential $2.22 billion contract. The award has an initial value of $1.1 billion and calls for the installation of the Conventional Prompt Strike system on DDG vessels, Lockheed said Friday. Under the contrac...
BAE Systems‘ ship repair business in Norfolk, Virginia, has won a potential $161.5 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to update, repair and maintain systems of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship. The company will perform fiscal 2023 depot modernization work on the USS Nitze (DDG 94) vessel for the Chief of Naval Operations, the...
Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), will manufacture software-based airborne radio systems for the U.S. Navy under a $271.6 million. The service is procuring up to 2,390 Networked Communications Airborne Radios along with ancillary equipment and support services through the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite...
Karen Dahut, CEO of Google’s public sector division, has been selected to receive a 2023 Wash100 Award for her strategic vision in cloud platform delivery to government customers. This marks the third time that Dahut has been recognized in Executive Mosaic’s yearly list of executives who have shown exemplary leadership, innovation, vis...
Artificial intelligence has become increasingly important in the ever-evolving modern warspace. To address this emerging technology and harness its benefits to ensure decision-making advantage, the Department of Defense recently established the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which holds a goal of accelerating the department&#...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business unit will provide Joint Standoff Weapon Program support services to the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers under a five-year, $34.1 million contract. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will help clients engineer, analyze, integrate and test JSOW weapon systems as part of the indefinite-delivery/i...
Valiant Integrated Services has formed a four-member advisory board to provide guidance and insight to the company’s management team on market trends, customer needs and business opportunities in the military training market. The Training Advisory Board is composed of retired U.S. Army officers who will help align Valiant’s training and ...
As global tensions rise and competition intensifies, the Department of Defense is making a clear pivot toward “hard target” adversaries. The impacts of this shift are echoing across the DOD and the intelligence community, and government leaders are looking at their strategies, capabilities and technologies from new perspectives. “We’ve reall...
