One agency can’t do it alone. That was the overarching thrust of Defense Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Suzanne White’s remarks at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Intel Summit on Thursday. White acknowledged the existing collaborations with In-Q-Tel, the Defense Innovation Unit, NASA, small businesses, a research laboratory at the Univ...
Virginia, Texas and California emerged as the top three states for total defense spending in fiscal year 2022, according to a report released by the Department of Defense’s office of local defense community cooperation. Florida, New York, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Arizona are the other seven states that made the to...
Terri Walker-Spoonhour, former chief operating officer of HII‘s (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division, has been named senior vice president of integration and operations at Eqlipse Technologies, a portfolio company of private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. She will be responsible for spearheading current and future acquisitions thr...
The U.S. Army has exercised the second option period of its other transaction agreements with Griffon Aerospace and Texton Systems (NYSE: TXT) to continue to evaluate and demonstrate their vertical takeoff and landing system offerings. The contract covers the evaluation of the companies’ Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System designs leading...
Dave Limp, a nearly 14-year Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) executive, will officially join Kent, Washington-based space company Blue Origin as CEO on Dec. 4, CNBC reported Monday. He will succeed the retiring Bob Smith, who will stay with Blue Origin through Jan. 2 to facilitate the leadership transition. Limp has been serving as senior vice president...
Dan Whitcher, an enterprise information technology executive with nearly three decades of combined government and industry experience, has joined VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) as chief information officer, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Whitcher will provide strategic leadership and day-to-day operational oversight of VSE’s enterprise I...
The Department of Defense is in the midst of a “reluctant revolution in military affairs,” according to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth III. With the advent of modern autonomous technologies, the U.S. military is currently undergoing never-before-seen efforts to uncrew “considerable portions” o...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is saddled with many of the same challenges as organizations from various sectors that process information in attempts to make it actionable: an excess of data and a need to find efficient and dependable ways to sort through it. As information assessors, IC representatives like Rhett Skiles, deputy assistant secr...
Lumen Technologies has received a potential five-year, $109.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to continue providing operations and maintenance services for dark fiber and commercial facilities in support of Department of Defense users across the continental U.S. The performance period of the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-...
The Aerospace Corp. has received a modification to a contract with the Space Systems Command that calls for systems engineering and integration services in support of the national space community. Work will be carried out in California with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2024, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The modification...
