Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased radio frequency modules manufacturer Atlanta Micro as part of efforts to expand its presence in the radar, electronic warfare and weapons markets. Atlanta Micro is a Norcross, Georgia-based maker of high-performance RF modules, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and related components, Mercury Syste...
Leaders from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the departments of the Navy and the Air Force are scheduled to discuss the military’s current technology acquisition environment at a Dec. 7 panel discussion hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Douglas Packard, director of DISA’s procur...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing ...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking proposals for the first on-ramp of a multi-year engineering and analytics support contract managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AF Base. According to the request for proposals posted Wednesday on SAM.gov, AFLCMC is conducting a full and open competition as the service looks to...
An Austal subsidiary in Mobile, Alabama, will help the U.S. Navy maintain littoral combat ships deployed to the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific region under a potential $215.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The five-year IDIQ award to Austal USA has a $72.5 million initial value that covers LCS continuous maintenance ...
Christopher O’Donnell, acting assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Defense, will keynote a Nov. 3 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to provide insight into the Pentagon’s current priorities to advance capabilities for the U.S. military. O’Donnell ...
Paul Weiss, a two-decade veteran of CGI (NYSE: GIB), has been named VP of strategic program delivery and solution development at Reston, Virginia-based information technology company Brillient. He will oversee employee engagement, innovation and customer success functions within Brillient’s digital transformation business area, with a focus on...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has received a $591.6 million modification under the U.S. Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle acquisition contract to produce additional military trucks and trailers. This award covers the delivery of 1,669 JLTV tucks, 868 trailers and associated kits and components to domestic and foreign militar...
