The Department of Defense has completed the market research for a program that will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud initiative and expects to decide by the end of October which vendors will be allowed to take part in the new program, Federal News Network reported Thursday. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program will...
Arlington Capital Partners has agreed to purchase Systems Planning and Analysis from CM Equity Partners and SPA Management for an undisclosed sum and plans to combine SPA with its portfolio company MCR to create an independent advisory firm focused on supporting the missions of government and national security customers. William Vantine, president a...
Rusty Murdaugh, president of Austal’s U.S. arm, said the company is transitioning to steel-based shipbuilding and developing its ship repair business as part of its strategic evolution, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The kick for us [to push for steel] was when we weren’t able to secure the frigate design. We re-evaluated where we needed ...
The Department of Justice has expanded its efforts to combat cyber threats with the launch of an initiative aimed at cracking down on government contractors that made false cybersecurity-related fraud claims. The new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative will leverage the False Claims Act, a civil enforcement tool meant to address fraudulent conduct by compa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 6, 2021 — A vice president at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business has talked about how the company provided assistance in analyzing and detecting fire patterns during an ongoing series of wildfires in California by employing its artificial intelligence technology that leverages ensemble ...
In an effort to streamline the organization’s overlapping systems and harmonize challenges across centers and directorates, the Defense Intelligence Agency released its standardized framework for a coherent approach in achieving multilevel objectives in June. Lt. Gen Scott Berrier, director of DIA, said the 2021 DIA Strategy co...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said agencies should reassess how they field and manage multicloud and hybrid information technology environments and one of the things they should consider is having a comprehensive, coherent security model that looks at the applications’ entire lifecyc...
Dynamic Integrated Services has named former General Services Administration executives Dominic Sale and Stacy Riggs as a vice president and senior manager, respectively, within the enterprise optimization practice. Mark Forman, executive vice president for enterprise optimization practice at DIS, said in a statement published Wednesday Sale and Rig...
Marion Kennedy, a more than 25-year federal government and industry leader, has joined LMI as vice president of intelligence market. Pete Pflugrath, senior VP of markets and growth at LMI, said in a statement published Thursday said Kennedy’s hands-on experience in growing intelligence-related businesses in the private sector and supporting the de...
NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $253.4 million combined to General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary and MagniX USA to develop and demonstrate electrified propulsion systems intended for commercial aircraft. The two companies will participate in the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project within a five-year period, ...
