Government agencies must ensure they have the right level of infrastructure to get the most out of the artificial intelligence systems they acquire A top OpenAI executive said at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit that if public sector professionals want AI to do more than simple tasks, they need to get...
Technology company Alpha Omega has appointed industry executive Michael Bruce as senior vice president of national security. In a LinkedIn post published Monday, the company said Bruce’s appointment comes as it continues to expand its national security portfolio. Who Is Michael Bruce? Bruce is an executive with more than two decades of leaders...
SMX has appointed Robert Longo as senior vice president of capture strategy and business development for its enterprise systems and solutions business unit. The company announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, highlighting Longo’s over two decades of executive leadership experience in steering enterprise-level modernizations an...
The U.S. Army has awarded three firm-fixed-price contracts worth $1.27 billion for the development, production and testing of the Binocular Night Observation Device, or BiNOD. L3Harris received a $466 million award, Elbit Systems of America – Night Vision secured a $450.6 million contract and Photonis Defense was awarded $352.6 million, the Depart...
IBM has been selected to modernize the digital pricing infrastructure used across U.S. military commissaries under a contract valued at up to $112 million over five years. The contract, awarded by the Department of War’s Defense Commissary Agency, covers upgrades to electronic shelf label systems at 177 stores in the United States and deployme...
Cybermedia Technologies has named Audra Upchurch as its new CEO. The McLean, Virginia-headquartered company said in a LinkedIn post Tuesday that Upchurch, who has served as its interim CEO since August, will lead strategic direction and growth across its federal portfolio. “It is truly an honor to step into the role of CEO at a...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts In the current digital environment, supply chains are essential to national security, vital infrastructure and international trade. They have, however, also emerged as one of the most often used attack methods in cybersecurity. Cybercrimi...
Markon, a mission integrator for the federal government, has acquired Millennium Corp. to expand its delivery of mission-critical cyber services across defense, intelligence and federal civilian markets. Markon said Friday that, through the transaction, it is positioning itself as a full-spectrum cyber provider, capable of delivering end-to-end cybe...
The American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation has broken ground on its first National Security Industrial Hub in Bloomfield, Indiana, advancing a Department of War-backed effort to expand domestic munitions and solid rocket motor production capacity, according to a press release sent to GovCon Wire. The campus, which spans more than 1...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International The future of innovation in both government and industry will not be distinguished by singular breakthroughs, but rather by the convergence and meshing of a number of different new technologies. Going forward, industries, national security, economic competitiveness, privacy and almost eve...
