The Department of Defense introduced its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, in early 2022, out of a dissatisfaction with the progress made by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, known as the JAIC. In the two and a half years since the CDAO’s establishment, though, how much progress has the Pentagon made with...
James Dawkins has been appointed executive vice president and National Nuclear Security Administration chief operations officer at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the executive shared on LinkedIn Saturday. In his new dual role, Dawkins will oversee the management and operating functions of NNSA missions and programs at the Department of ...
C Speed, a product development and engineering services company, was acquired by NewSpring and added to the private equity firm’s portfolio of businesses that provide government customers with mission support products and services. The firm said C Speed brings to the NewSpring Holdings Federal Platform three decades of experience in offering a...
Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton on Friday officially assumed the role of director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network, or JFHQ-DODIN, DISA reported. He succeeded Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who took the helm at DISA and JFHQ-DODIN in 2021. During the ceremonia...
Gen. Randall Reed, former deputy commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, took over the leadership of U.S. Transportation Command from Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, a 2024 Wash100 Award recipient. TRANSCOM said Friday Reed is the 15th commander of the unified functional combatant command that supports the military services, the rest o...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a.k.a. NATO, the post-World War II alliance between the U.S. and 31 other nations, has been steadily honing its focus on the space domain over the last decade or so. Its first piece of policy on space came in 2012, though it was another seven years until the organization followed...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division has received a potential five-year, $458 million task order from the Department of Defense to help DOD modernize its communications and information technology networks to facilitate rapid decision-making on the battlefield. The company said Tuesday the U.S. Air Force’s 774th Enterprise Sour...
An RTX (NYSE: RTX) business has received a U.S. Navy contract worth $192 million for an advanced electronic attack system designed to deny, disrupt and degrade enemy technology. The Department of Defense said Friday Raytheon will design, develop, manufacture, integrate, demonstrate and test the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band extended capability mod...
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has won a Department of Defense contract worth approximately $794.6 million to provide Adobe Enterprise software licenses, related upgrades, modernization and maintenance support services for users across DOD. DOD said Thursday the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization at Scott Air Force ...
The Intelligence Community is in the midst of a major effort to become a data-centric, interoperable team of organizations. This push is shaped by new technologies and new approaches to information sharing, but leaning into the tools needed to unlock the benefits of data requires trust and assurance. Artificial intelligence, though a significant fac...
