John Hyten, a retired U.S. Air Force general who has served on C3 AI‘s (NYSE: AI) advisory board member since June 2022, has been designated as special adviser to Thomas Siebel, CEO of the software provider. Hyten will advise the chief executive on efforts to grow C3 AI’s work with defense and intelligence agencies, the...
BioMADE, a Department of Defense-sponsored manufacturing innovation institute, has received a budget hike of about $450 million from DOD to help advance bioindustrial manufacturing education and innovation. “BioMADE’s research and development is already yielding significant progress in biomanufactured proteins, chemicals, fabrics, rubber, and mo...
System Studies & Simulation has won a five-year, $81.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to perform technical engineering work. The branch received four bids for the firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials contract via an online solicitation and obligated $6.5 million on the award using fiscal 2021 other procurement funds, the Defense Departme...
MicroTech, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention manage telecommunications infrastructure under a $78 million award. The CDC Office of the Chief Information Officer and Digital Service Office will receive managed services through the contract, the company said Tuesday. Services will...
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has formed a $250 million venture investment fund to back generative artificial intelligence technology projects and introduced a customer relationship management platform that employs OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. Salesforce said Tuesday its ventures arm will invest in Anthropic, Cohere, Hearth.AI and You.com through the...
The General Services Administration has released a second draft request for proposals for the follow-on to GSA’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract after industry stakeholders submitted feedback on preliminary documents regarding the new multi-agency procurement vehicle. GSA said Tuesday the OASIS+ draft RFPs contain sol...
Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems or HIMARS and Javelin missiles are a big part of the arms package the U.S. government is providing for Ukraine to help the country defend itself against Russian invasion and that he expects to see robust orders for...
The U.S. Air Force has selected four companies to supply interface test adapters and associated equipment under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Vendors will perform design and manufacturing services to support the service branch’s Government Test Program Set development program, the Department of Defense sai...
Axient CEO Randy Cash has promoted company executives Jay Kovacs, Patience Samson and Port Dubon to C-level positions. Kovacs, most recently senior vice president of growth strategies, will now serve as chief innovation officer and oversee Axient’s innovation and growth strategy and technical capability expansion efforts in data analytics and digi...
A joint venture of consulting firms Pond and Woolpert, will continue to perform architecture and engineering work at government installations under a $160 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The PWJV has supported the planning and programming of Department of Defense and non-DOD real property assets since 2018, the comp...
