Some Chinese artificial intelligence developers said China’s efforts to catch up with the U.S. in AI are being slowed by a bottleneck in access to advanced chips, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. As U.S. policy continues to shape the direction of AI at home and abroad, industry and government stakeholders are watching closely how...
Appian has secured a new enterprise agreement with the U.S. Army that expands the service’s access to artificial intelligence-powered process automation in support of its modernization efforts. How Will the Enterprise Agreement Support Army Modernization? Under the 10-year enterprise agreement, the Army can procure up to $500 million in ...
CesiumAstro, a space and defense communications systems and satellites company, has received $200 million in financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States, or EXIM, in partnership with J.P. Morgan. The transaction represents the largest financing completed under EXIM’s Make More in America program and among the most substanti...
PsiQuantum has appointed foreign policy and national security leaders Stephen Biegun, Ellen Lord and Chris Miller to its government advisory board. The company said Thursday the three new members will join Bob Sharp, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, on the board and leverage their decades of experience to help PsiQuantum forge partnerships across t...
LMI has realigned executive responsibilities across its leadership team as Josh Wilson officially assumes the role of CEO, a transition that took effect Jan. 1. LMI announced Thursday the changes include Christen Smith’s appointment as chief revenue officer, Chrissy Cocrane’s move into the role of senior vice president of health and civi...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded 340 companies positions under the potential 10-year, $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, multiple-award contract vehicle, expanding the pool to more than 2,400 awardees. SAIC, one of the latest additions to the SHIELD pool, is a major sponsor of the Potomac Offi...
Parsons has acquired Altamira Technologies for approximately $375 million as part of efforts to expand its signals intelligence, missile warning, cyber and space capabilities for the Department of War and U.S. intelligence community customers. Parsons said Tuesday Altamira’s more than 600 employees, over 90 percent of whom hold security cleara...
General Dynamics Information Technology has secured a U.S. Air Force task order worth $120 million to provide a zero trust cybersecurity platform for the service branch’s bases worldwide. GDIT said Wednesday the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts awarded the task order under the service’s Nex...
Dark Wolf Solutions is reorganizing its operations and expanding its offerings to better support defense and intelligence missions and address escalating global cyberthreats. The Herndon, Virginia-based company said Wednesday that it will organize its expanded capabilities into four practices: cybersecurity, software delivery and cloud, data and art...
Former NASA executive Dan Tenney has been selected to succeed Michael Williamson as senior vice president of global business development and strategy at Lockheed Martin. Tenney will officially assume the role on Feb.16, Lockheed Martin said Wednesday. “Michael’s leadership and strategic vision will have a lasting impa...
