Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $298.2 million contract modification to repair common unmanned aircraft system components for the U.S. Air Force. USAF tasked the company to service sensor suites, launch and recovery equipment and mission controls of both the MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4B Global Hawk platforms, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of the federal business at NVIDIA, was presented his fourth Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a 4×24 membership dinner on Tuesday evening. “Those that know Anthony Robbins recognize that he is a larger than life magnetic per...
Potomac Officers Club hosted its Winning With the Network: Securing Data in Motion to the Tactical Edge, the latest event in POC’s JADC2 Series, to bring together the members of the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry to learn more about how the Department of Defense and its commercial partners are leveraging advanced 5G,...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three shipbuilders a $114.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for repair, maintenance and modernization of two ship classes homeported in Mayport, Florida. Fincantieri Marine Systems North America, Epsilon Systems Solutions and St. Johns Boat will compete for work on the Navy’s surface combatant...
Federal health services provider OptumServe has named Robert Harsla, a former director at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as vice president of business development, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. At LexisNexis, Harsala worked in support of health care-focused programs under the departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare ...
Former Department of Defense officials Jack Gumtow, Scott Howell and Patricia Stokes have joined the board of advisers of artificial intelligence software provider Babel Street. They will advise the leadership team on approaches to help customers implement the company’s analytics software platform, Babel Street said Wednesday. Gumtow, a three-...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business has won a $340 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force operate and maintain a sea-based active electronically scanned array radar system. The company will support the Cobra King radar system‘s mobile sensors under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ...
The U.S. Army has added BKM IDS as an awardee on a potential $2.41 billion contract vehicle to provide support services to the National Cyber Range Complex. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes work to plan events, operate and modernize ranges, manage technologies and secure sites, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Fourteen companies were...
Alka Patel, former chief of responsible artificial intelligence at the Department of Defense’s Joint AI Center, has joined Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) to serve as vice president of government and external affairs. The new VP wrote in a LinkedIn post that she will support Comcast as the company focuses on community investment and digital equity to...
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s nonprofit research organization has secured a $770 million sole-source award from the U.S. Air Force to build a threat system simulator for military aircrew training activities. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. will provide the Advanced Radar Threat System-Variant 1, technical data package and training ...
