On Wednesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense and Intelligence: IT Modernization Forum, which gathered elite defense, intelligence and commercial sector leaders to divulge the technological priorities, key strategies and innovative initiatives driving the Defense Intelligence Agency’s digital transformation goals as rapid information ...
Joseph Early, former chief digital and data officer at the Department Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office, has joined Cornerstone Defense as deputy chief technology officer. The former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander will work with the company’s leadership and technical teams in efforts to bring differentiated platforms to the government...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2021 — A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) vice president has expressed the need for the Department of Defense to employ evolutionary capabilities and revolutionary platforms to ensure that missile defense could take on emerging hypersonic and cruise missile threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “We need to have ...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said that DOD created an adaptation plan and a risk analysis document to comply with the White House’s executive order for all agencies to take action on climate change, DOD News reported Tuesday. “These reports will help guide the department...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2021 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) seeks to broaden its digital engineering offerings with the $350 million acquisition of Gryphon Technologies, a Washington, D.C.-based systems engineering firm that provides a range of services to defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 1. “This acquisition maps dir...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
The State Department has cleared a $650 million foreign military sales proposal from Saudi Arabia for the procurement of Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile systems and associated equipment. Saudi Arabia asked to buy up to 280 AIM-120C AMRAAMs and 596 LAU-128 Missile Rail Launchers along with spare and re...
Golden Max, doing business as Optimal, has won a $147.6 million contract to supply military and federal civilian customers with infusion pump kits via the Defense Logistics Agency’s electronic catalog. The DLA Troop Support organization received 152 responses for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense s...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) have signed a partnership agreement to develop 5G technology platforms intended for U.S. military use across all battlefield domains. Under a strategic deal, the two companies aim to produce an integrated 5G.MIL network that can support the Department of Defense’s communications infrastructure...
As the rapid development of emerging technologies continues to have transformative impacts on today’s battlespace, U.S. defense agencies have recently shifted their priorities to reflect an exponentially increasing demand for modernization, optimization and cybersecurity. The Department of Defense created a new acquisition framework in January...
