Alexander Gates, a four-decade military and civil service veteran, has been named chief research officer at Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity company Shift5. Gates will manage a threat intelligence portfolio designed to help transportation and defense system operators gain visibility of secure operational technology networks, Shift5 said Thurs...
Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. has won a potential $184.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study combustion and propulsion technologies for potential defense use. ISSI will carry out research work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract at Wright-Patterson AF Base in Ohio and will receive $842,500 i...
Sig Sauer has won a potential 10-year, $4.5 billion contract from the U.S. Army to produce two Next Generation Squad Weapon variants with a common 6.8 millimeter ammunition and fire control system. The Department of Defense disclosed Thursday the value of the firm-fixed-price contract that covers the production of XM5 NGSW and XM250 NGSW Automatic...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a four-year, $482 million contract extension to provide fleet management services to the Canadian air force’s CF-18 Hornet fighter jets. The company said Thursday it will continue to help manage the foreign aircraft program, materials, data, operational software, logistics process and electronic public...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking a contractor to support research and development of space domain awareness technologies through a potential $176 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. A solicitation notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says the Advanced Space Technology Research and Optimization program will support the mission at the ...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has secured a potential five-year, $1.68 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide modernization, activation and sustainment support for Total Ship Computing Environment infrastructure and mission systems of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will also provide no...
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector organization, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. GovCon Expert David Egts discussed the three core elements to keep at the forefront of defense customers as they work to implement open-source software and address...
John Avalos and Ted Fidder, respectively former executives at SOS International and CACI International (NYSE: CACI), have been appointed to leadership positions at Chantilly, Virginia-based systems engineering company Arcfield. Arfield said Wednesday Avalos will serve as chief growth officer while Fidder will be chief technology officer and they wil...
ExecutiveBiz featured Milad Bahrami, senior vice president and general manager for government health and safety solutions at Leidos, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about talent recruitment and retention in the federal sector, Leidos’ efforts in support of the community as well as his objectives ...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has made a strategic investment in Blackshark.ai, a provider of geospatial analytics services powered by artificial intelligence, as part of efforts to bring additional 3D geospatial products to more markets and customers. “We’re excited to partner with Blackshark.ai to extend our geospatial analytics offering and...
