The U.S. Department of Defense famously established the Joint Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in 2022 to formally indicate their commitment to embracing AI. But the Pentagon hasn’t stopped there — in the nearly year and a half since the CDAO’s creation, defense officials have demonstrated a persistent interest in implementing — an...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific has awarded five companies a $98 million contract modification to continue providing the U.S. military with incidental construction and other global contingency services. AECOM (NYSE: ACM), Fluor (NYSE: FLR), KBR (NYSE: KBR), IAP and ECC joint venture and V2X (NYSE: VVX) will provide short-ter...
Rob Zitz, an executive with an impressive combination of public and private sector experience, has secured the chairman role in Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Space Mission Assurance Group. It is Zitz’s 11th consecutive year leading the group, which is concerned with the government’s collaborative work with private industry to complete and exce...
The U.S. Air Force has announced its intent to increase the potential maximum value of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that provides information technology products and support services for Strategic Command. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the Air Force plans to increase the Information Technology Capabilities Con...
Nine companies won spots on a combined $600 million contract from the U.S. Navy to perform new construction as well as renovation and repair of military facilities under the jurisdiction of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command – Marianas. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, design-build construction award includes renovati...
Vinita Fordham, a technology executive with over two decades of combined government and industry experience, has been named chief innovation officer at Bridge Core, a NewSpring Holdings platform company, Forum reported Tuesday. Fordham joined Bridge Core following a two-year stint as a research fellow at Deloitte Consulting‘s AI Institute for ...
Comtech (Nasdaq: CMTL) will provide professional engineering services and supply terrestrial and satellite networking communications technologies for the U.S. Army under a potential $544 million task order awarded under the Global Tactical Communications Systems II contract. The company said Monday it will support the project manager tactical networ...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions. This makes sense given its lengthy history and the quantity and caliber of resources devoted to both research and development and the acquisition of technol...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has won a potential five-year, $53 million task order to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency build and enhance partner nation capacity to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats. The company said Monday it will provide training, equipment and subsequent maintenance in support of DTRA’s Intern...
The U.S. Army awarded contracts worth $1.5 billion combined before the end of fiscal year 2023 to procure components and materials needed to increase the production of 155-millimeter ammunition. Through the contract awards to nine companies, the Army aims to maintain momentum to achieve its goal of producing 80,000 projectiles per month by the fourt...
