The State Department has approved Poland’s request to buy 250 M1A2 SEPv3 main battle tanks, manufactured by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), through an approximately $6 billion foreign military sales agreement. Pieces of equipment covered by the FMS package include 250 AN/VLQ-12 counter-improvised explosive device systems, 26 M88A2 Hercules combat rec...
UAV Factory, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has adopted the name Edge Autonomy following its combination with Jennings Aeronautics Inc. and will focus on expanding its market presence in multidomain autonomous and unmanned systems applications. Edge Autonomy said Tuesday it will be headquartered in JAI’s former corporate office...
Cameron Chehreh, a technology industry leader, has joined Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) as vice president and general manager of public sector segment. He will oversee a team of public sector professionals in driving digital transformation in internet of things, cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, among other areas, in suppor...
Brock Spradling, former senior manager of federal health care at IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Red Hat subsidiary, has been promoted to the role of federal civilian sales director, G2Xchange reported Thursday. He came to Red Hat in 2015 as lead for the software vendor’s health care team and client executive for its Defense Health Agency account....
The U.S. Navy has released a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract for the procurement and production of afloat network devices, spares, laboratory equipment, initial software, software renewal and maintenance services for surface, shore and submarine platforms. The service will launch a full and open competi...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) reported $155.9 million in total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2021, up 6 percent from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based satellite communications company said the total number of billable subscribers rose to 1.72 million in Q4 2021, reflecting a year-over-year increase of 17 percent associate...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $252 million follow-on contract to produce a man-portable system for U.S. Marine Corps personnel to recognize and locate targets. The company will provide low-rate initial and full-rate production services to USMC’s Next Generation Handheld Targeting System program, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Chuck Cash, a more than two-decade veteran of the government technology market, has been named vice president of federal sales at Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR). He will oversee the development and execution of Spire’s growth strategy in the federal sector and expand partnerships with government clients, the space data provider said Thursday. Cash ...
Rashmi Mathur, formerly consulting leader at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has moved to Deloitte to serve as managing director of strategy and analytics at the professional services company, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. In a LinkedIn post, Mathur said she collaborates with a Deloitte team tasked to support federal clients through artificial intelligence and ad...
LMI will offer test and evaluation tools to the Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence organization under a five-year, $249 million blanket purchase agreement. The nonprofit consulting firm said Wednesday it was awarded a position on the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center T&E BPA, a contracting vehicle that supports responsible ...
