U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at an April 20 forum hosted by GovCon Wire Events to share his outlook for service intelligence. Trussler has served as deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and the 68th director of naval intelligence since June 2020. He previously served...
Oceus has secured a potential $84 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to design and build a mobile cellular network for the Department of Defense. The 10-year IDIQ award calls for the provision of a communications system to support DOD’s wireless applications and future network updates, the company said Tuesday. Contract w...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has appointed former U.S. military officers Joseph Kernan, John Mulholland and Michael Dickey to the company’s newly formed advisory group. They will advise the BlackSky leadership on business growth, technology investment and partnership matters, the geospatial services provider said Monday. Kernan, a retired Navy vice a...
Robert Winkler, a 25-year military and legislative service veteran, has been named vice president of corporate development and national security programs at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS). He will aim to align the company’s development projects and communicate the potential of its offerings with the federal government, Kr...
GovCIO and Torch.AI have teamed up to provide the Department of Defense with an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help DOD process and glean insights from unstructured data. Torch.AI will provide its AI-based software platform Nexus and work with GovCIO to help the department identify data features and extract intelligence f...
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) business unit has received a $75 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force Test Center further develop two threat environment simulation systems. Amherst Systems will support the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator and the Next Generation Electronic Environment Generator programs through March 2027, the Depa...
Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, has been selected to receive a 2022 Wash100 Award for stewarding the nonprofit organization to position itself for annual revenue growth and its management role at eight of the 17 Department of Energy national laboratories. This marks Von Thaer’s fourth consecutive induction and seventh Wash100 win o...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $3.2 billion contract to build a family of radars designed to help the U.S. Navy defend against hostile aircraft and various missile threats. The company said Thursday it will manufacture SPY-6 hardware in solid-state, rotating and fixed-face variants for installation on seven types of Navy s...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a five-year, $3.26 billion contract to produce counterfire target acquisition radar systems for the U.S. Army. The firm-fixed-price contract covers full-rate AN/TPQ-53 production services, provision of spare parts and support services and system deployment to multiple customers under the foreign military sales...
David Norquist, former deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, has been appointed president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association in a move that takes effect May 1. NDIA said Thursday James Boozer, the trade group’s executive vice president, will assume leadership of the association on an acting basis before Norquist of...
