“Information is often the thread that weaves together disparate technologies,” stated Dr. Mark Linderman, chief scientist of the Air Force Research Lab’s Information Directorate. He also shared that his cohort is increasingly collaborating on work for the contested space domain.Dr. Linderman will be the opening keynote speaker at the Potomac ...
Zaki Saleh currently serves as senior vice president of the health and civilian market at LMI, where he leads profit and loss and growth efforts for the sector. Saleh recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview with GovCon Wire, where he shared his insights on generative artificial intelligence and large language models and discussed ...
Private investment firm Enlightenment Capital has formed a new space-focused business through the merger of its four space and national security portfolio companies. Boecore, Orbit Logic, Ascension Engineering Group and La Jolla Logic now operate under a single business entity called Auria, which offers deployable software products for space, missil...
Kim Kuryea, senior vice president of human resources and administration at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), will assume the role of chief financial officer at the company on Feb. 15 as part of a series of executive moves. She will succeed Jason Aiken, who currently holds the dual role of executive vice president of technologies and CFO....
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for a follow-on contract to acquire research and development capabilities in support of the mission of the military branch’s Space and Missile Defense Command. The Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration II Domain 2 program is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity ...
Since we last spoke to Redhorse CEO and two-time Wash100 Award winner John Zangardi in January of 2023, the company has enjoyed growth, meeting and exceeding expectations. Zangardi told GovCon Wire he has spent a lot of time “cementing [his] all-star leadership team,” capped off by the recent hire of Accenture Federal Services and Novetta...
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS), the parent company of broadband satellite services provider Hughes Network Systems, has closed its purchase of Dish Network in a transaction that strengthens its position as a global terrestrial and non-terrestrial connectivity provider to government and business customers. The combined entity will be based in Englewood, Col...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has appointed Amr Hussein, most recently vice president of C4ISR, as multidomain combat solutions VP and general manager of rotary mission systems sites in New Jersey and named Joe DePietro, a three-decade defense industry veteran, as VP and GM of C6ISR. Hussein and DePietro announced their appointments through LinkedIn p...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $344.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce guided, gliding precision munition with multimode seeker technology for domestic and international military customers. The modification covers the lot 10 production of StormBreaker, additional all up rounds, containers and trainers for the Air Force...
Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) has closed its acquisition of Talon Cyber Security for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to further extend the capability of its secure access service edge platform in safeguarding managed and unmanaged devices. Santa Clara, California-based Palo Alto Networks said Thursday it will integrate its Prisma SASE plat...
