Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has secured a $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop an engine system for spacecraft to be used in NASA’s lunar exploration program. The company will help NASA integrate the Orion Main Engine into the primary power and propulsion module of the exploratory vehicle to replace a re...
Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in GovCon Wire’s virtual event Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern time to discuss cybersecurity issues in the national security mission. Puesh Kumar, acting principal deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergen...
Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) will research how 5G networks could support warfighters on the battlefield under two contracts the Department of Defense awarded through the Information Warfare Research Project. The company said Monday it will examine how 5G connectivity could help improve command and control applications and services and will explore how 5G n...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit this past Thursday to bring the members of the government contracting (GovCon) community together with executives and personnel from across the federal government, military branches and intelligence community to explore the impact 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well...
Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a previous Wash100 Award winner, took her oath of office as the new chair of the Defense Business Board during a ceremony held Tuesday at the Pentagon. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, swore in...
Daniel Jetton, a cybersecurity business executive, has joined Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider Evolver as vice president of cybersecurity. He will oversee the expansion of cyber capabilities and facilitate the delivery of cyber operational security, vulnerability management, risk assessments, analytics, diagnostics, cl...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit to bring together some of the most influential executives from the federal government and industry to explore the impact that 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well as future programs, plans and priorities as the nation aligns with emerging technology. Jay...
While the world continues to navigate the “new normal” brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, another inevitable environmental concern that can cause droughts, among other challenges, is emerging. But scientists say mitigation measures can still help reduce its severity and damages. Notwithstanding the future levels of greenhouse gas em...
President Joe Biden has nominated John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, to serve as full-time CIO at DOD. Sherman has nearly 25 years of innovation and national security experience across DOD and the intelligence community leading modernization efforts in the areas of collaboration, cybersecurity and cloud comp...
SOS International has opened a facility that will offer information support to the public and private sectors on international security-related topics such as intellectual property, foreign military affairs and cybersecurity. The Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis uses open-source technology, software and data-as-a-service platforms from ...
