On Tuesday, Jan. 15th, Govcon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s 5th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit. The event featured keynote addresses from five of the top leaders in the R&D field. Mary Miller, acting assistant secretary for research and engineering at the Department of De...
Thomas Gillespie, director of the Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers, has provided the agency with strategic studies and built communities of interest in areas of critical importance, including cyber operations, weapon systems and homeland defense. In September, DoD signed 15 companies to a potential nine-year, $28B contract for tech...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 ” Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has said she believes the challenges that women professionals encounter in the defense sector are more “aspirational” instead of institutional, as the industry sees a surge in women leaders at top ...
President Donald Trump has announced that Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will serve as secretary of the Department of Defense on an interim basis starting Jan. 1, Military Times reported Sunday. Trump made the announcement in a tweet posted Sunday days after James Mattis disclosed his plan to resign from his post at DoD by the...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential five-year, $240M contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support engineering and integration of technical systems for the Ballistic Missile Defense program. MDA will incrementally pay for the services with $40.9M in fiscal year 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Departm...
James Mattis will leave the Department of Defense on Feb. 28 after two years of service as DoD’s top civilian leader. œMy views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues, Mattis wrote...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $357.8M contract to help the U.S. Navy produce and integrate air and missile defense radar systems. Work includes combat system integration and test, depot-level maintenance field engineering and spare parts procurement efforts for the AN/SPY-6(V) radar technology, the Department of Defense said Wednesda...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $585.2M delivery order from the Missile Defense Agency to design and produce a homeland defense radar system for installation in Oahu, Hawaii. MDA obligated $51.4M in initial research development test and evaluation funds for project that commenced Tuesday and will continue through Dec. ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
