Steve Froelich has been appointed vice president for advanced concepts at the rotary and mission systems business segment of defense and aerospace company Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). He previously served as Lockheed vice president and general manager for RMS Australia and New Zealand, a position that he described on LinkedIn on Tuesday as “th...
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...
Danielle Cox, a 14-year federal information technology industry veteran, has been named vice president of delivery at RIVA Solutions, a provider of digital transformation services to the public sector, according to her LinkedIn post published Tuesday. She will oversee RIVA’s portfolio of health and federal civilian programs and manage the init...
Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) has secured a spot on a potential 10-year, $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build and transition multidomain warfighting systems and platforms for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will help the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center prototype and test hardware, software and cybers...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun seeking information from industry sources capable of supporting the development of a selective withdrawal structure at Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River in Oregon. The SWS will be a concrete tower attached to the gravity dam’s upstream face with appurtenant features to enable water conveyance and...
Iron Bow Technologies has received a potential $1.39 billion contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide integrated platforms and services in support of VA’s connected care technologies. VA announced the contract award in a SAM.gov notice published Tuesday. The Connected Care Integrated Network program is a single-award, indefi...
Rocket Lab will design, produce and deliver 18 satellites to a U.S. government agency under a contract valued at approximately $515 million, SpaceNews reported Saturday. The company disclosed the contract in a Dec. 21 regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and sources say the government customer is likely the Space Development...
Jeff Bezos-owned space company Blue Origin and private equity firm Cerberus have made bids for United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Some people familiar with the matter said ULA has also drawn interest from aerospace and defense contractor Textron (NY...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. a pair of cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts worth $889 million in total for naval nuclear propulsion components. The first contract is worth $706 million while the second is valued at $183 million, with both having an expected completion date of September 2033, the Department of Defense said Thursda...
Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies should learn how to navigate the repository of artificial intelligence use cases as they work on strategies to incorporate AI into their workflows and align such strategies with their specific requirements. In an opinion piece published Thursday in Federal Tim...
