The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture lot nine glide bombs equipped with multimode seeker technology for the U.S. Air Force under a $320.3 million contract. The company’s missiles and defense business will produce 1,500 units of the StormBreaker, a networked weapon designed to locate and engage fixed or moving targets, Raytheon sa...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a $99.9 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers sustain a key component of the Tomahawk Weapons System. The company will continue to provide maintenance and management support to tactical Tomahawk weapons control system operators, the Department of Defense said M...
Federal Contracting, doing business as Bryan Construction, has won a 32-month, $128.7 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build aircraft maintenance support facilities and equipment at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. USACE received two bids for the project via an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Departm...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner in recognition of her leadership in accelerating corporate growth strategy, driving veteran employment initiatives and advancing sustainability, social and governance goals. “Nazzic, a six-time winner, has successfu...
In December, four major cloud service providers landed a spot on the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract, the Pentagon’s enterprise-wide cloud adoption effort. To take a deeper look at what each vendor brings to the contract, Executive Mosaic sat down with leaders from the four awardee companies: Amazon ...
Greg Myers, former vice president of federal sales at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed to the advisory board of Ventech Solutions to advise the company on market growth trends and opportunities. He will join new member Mark Tomaino and returning members Penny Thompson and Ken Scalet, Ventech said Tuesday. “Ventech Solutions is exci...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Carahsoft Technology President Craig Abod as a recipient of the 2023 Wash100 Award for advancing corporate growth through partnerships with software vendors and supporting an ecosystem of value-added resellers, consulting partners and system integrators. The annual Wash100 list represents a cross-section of l...
As emerging technologies continue to transform the nature of conflict between the U.S. and its adversaries, the intelligence community has recognized the need to accelerate the adoption of these tools in order to stay at the forefront of the competition. According to intelligence experts who came together for a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s&nb...
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services has issued a draft request for white papers on the establishment of an industrial base policy consortium to help expand DOD’s access to commercially available technologies. WHS plans to award a consortium-managed other transaction agreement in support of the agency’s Manu...
