Brad Williams, a business executive with 30 years of experience, has been named senior vice president of cyber at CACI International, the executive announced his appointment on LinkedIn Monday. Williams brings extensive experience as a business professional and change agent to his new role. In his three decades in the industry, he was resp...
Elizabeth Mannshardt was appointed as vice president and director of statistics and data science at Rockville, Maryland-based research and professional services provider Westat. The company said Mannshardt most recently worked as director of the Statistics, Methods and Innovation Program at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics ...
Boeing has secured a contract modification valued at $1.68 billion to manufacture and deliver seven Lot 13 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Thursday the deal includes foreign military sales of non-recurring engineering for the governments of Canada and Germany. Work will be performed in Se...
The Department of Commerce is investing up to $300 million to accelerate the development of technologies to boost the semiconductor industry. The department said Thursday the three entities receiving up to $100 million in federal funding each will conduct advanced packaging research projects meant to boost innovation in semiconductor research, ...
Boeing has been awarded a Lot 11 contract worth $2.38 billion to deliver 15 more KC-46A Pegasus tankers to the U.S. Air Force. The global aerospace and defense company said Thursday the new deal brings the total number of KC-46A multi-mission aerial refuelers contracted globally to 168 units. This provides the joint force and U.S. allies...
Prism Maritime has secured a $25.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to provide alteration installation team and in-service engineering agent support. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that the contract includes options that, if exercised, will bring the total value of the effort to $218.4 million. Under the contract, th...
AeroVironment has agreed to acquire BlueHalo for approximately $4.1 billion in an all-stock transaction to establish a diversified defense technology company with a portfolio of capabilities, including uncrewed platforms, space technologies, short- and long-range loitering munitions, cyber and electronic warfare systems. In a joint release published...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense released its long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program final rule (32 CFR Part 170) on October 11. Announced in 2019 by the Pentagon as a response to growing cybersecurity threats targeting sensitive defense information, the CMMC program aims to es...
Real-time 3D simulation and digital twin technologies provide the U.S. government — especially the military — an ability to train its personnel “across a much broader spectrum of scenarios and ‘what if’s,’” explains Ret. VADM Sean Buck, president of the National Training and Simulation Association. Rather than be limited by what i...
Ever since the 2016 presidential election drew concerns of foreign influence, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been the point guard to ensure that the process runs fairly, equitably and without a hitch. After many public appearances by the agency’s director, Wash100 Award winner Jen Easterly, leading up to Nov. 5, wherein ...
