In recent years, space has become a warfighting domain as global tensions rise, new threats emerge and the peer competition heats up. Now, more than ever, the ability to collect, process, and understand intelligence from space is critical to gaining and maintaining technological dominance on the global stage. Under its eighth director, Vice AdmiralÂ...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will continue to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency migrate enterprise information technology workloads to a multicloud environment under a five-year, $84 million contract. HII said Tuesday subcontractors on the recompeted work are AgileBeat, Ampsight, Compass and GIT-G. The teammem...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has partnered with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to develop next-generation aerospace industry capabilities that are enabled by advanced semiconductor technology. The collaboration is focused on the use of Intel 18A Silicon Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor fabrication process to design and create secure and autonomous Boeing products...
Private equity firm Vector Capital has completed its purchase of Riverbed Technology for an undisclosed sum and named tech industry veteran Dave Donatelli as CEO of the acquired information technology company. Dan Smoot, most recently CEO of Riverbed, will continue to support the company during the transition period, Riverbed said Tuesday. Donatelli...
Christopher Wronsky, vice president of human resources at Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business, has been chosen to succeed Greg Karol as senior VP and chief HR officer of the corporation on Sept. 1. Lockheed said Tuesday that Karol, a nearly four-decade Lockheed veteran, will retire once the transition period...
David Cline, a 23-year Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) veteran, has joined General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) as vice president of strategic capture within its information technology business. He announced his new position with GDIT on Monday in a LinkedIn post and most recently was capture management principal for Lockheed’s global business development ...
Four U.S. lawmakers have urged the Department of Defense to strengthen its review process for mergers and acquisitions and be more transparent with the public about the findings of its reviews of such transactions while ensuring the need to safeguard national security and confidential business information. In a letter addressed to Defense Secretary ...
Helen Soln, former vice president of proposal operations at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has taken on the same role at cyber and signals intelligence engineering company Eqlipse Technologies. She will build, manage and expand Eqlipse’s proposal development center and help identify new business opportunities in the defense and intelligence sectors, the...
A business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will supply drones for the U.S. Army’s aerial target activity under a firm-fixed-price contract worth $95 million over five years. The service is procuring subscale unmanned aerial target systems from Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems and will determine funds upon issuance ...
Officials from the White House, Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense will hold on Tuesday a classified briefing on artificial intelligence with senators as lawmakers work to advance legislative measures for AI, Reuters reported Monday. Avril Haines, director of national intelligence; Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense; Arati...
