On Wednesday, Feb. 13th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the Hilton in McLean, Va., for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Summit. The event featured three keynote speakers and two separate panels featuring some of the top experts in the artificial intelligence sector. Following the opening keyno...
On Wednesday, Feb. 13th, Govcon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the Hilton in McLean, Va., for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Summit. The event featured two separate panels and three keynote speakers with Dana Deasy, the chief information officer for the Department of Defense and 2019 Wash100 winner...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Dana Deasy, chief information officer for the Department of Defense, with his first 2019 Wash100 Award on Wednesday. The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as selected by the Executive Mosaic org...
The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies spots on a potential five-year, $235M contract to provide operations support for air traffic and landing systems installed on ships or at shore facilities. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is expected to conclude by February 2024, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Order...
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a potential $74.7M contract to design, build and commission a new facility at the service’s ammunition factory in Kingsport, Tenn. BAE said Tuesday it will construct the Recrystallization and Slurry Coating Formulation facility to modernize the process for manufacturing military pr...
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has agreed to purchase Endeavor Robotics from Arlington Capital Partners for about $385M in cash to make its entry into the market for unmanned ground vehicles for military, critical infrastructure and public safety applications. FLIR said Monday it expects the acquisition to close in the first quarter of 2019 a...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential five-year, $88.4M contract to update the sensors of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fighter jets and EA-18G electronic attack planes. The company will incorporate tactical features into the aircraft sensor system and investigate hardware and software anomalies under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-...
Three small businesses have won cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contracts to update hull, mechanical and electrical systems of the U.S. Navy’s active and reserve fleet. The military service awarded $57.3M to Amee Bay, $63.8M to Aviation Maritime Support Services and another $63.8 to Thermcor for...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 11, 2019 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will supply a digital video surveillance system for the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyers under a potential $33M contract in support of the service’s DDG modernization effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Naval Surfa...
Reginald Brothers, an executive vice president and chief technology officer of Peraton, said during a Government Matters interview aired Thursday that the pace of technology suggests that the Department of Defense needs more research-and-development funding in order to remain competitive. œThe challenge now is how fast technology is changi...
