Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, chief of space operations at the U.S. Space Force and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said the service plans to further develop deeper relationships with the commercial industry and wants the latter to play a bigger role in its missions, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “If you look at historically what has been...
Seventeen companies have won one-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide various fuel types at designated locations across the U.S. DLA’s energy division received 28 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award through a competitive acquisition process and will obligate fiscal 2021 through 2022 defense working cap...
Quincy Allen, a 35-year technology services industry veteran and former chief marketing officer of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) cloud business, has been appointed to the board of directors of Lumen Technologies. Lumen said Thursday that Allen met independent director qualifications under the New York Stock Exchange listing policies and his addition bring...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) will further develop its digital health tool designed to help address the COVID-19 pandemic under the second phase of a contract awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The company said Thursday it will deploy its IBM Digital Health Pass to employees of the water and wastewater utility Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission...
AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) has acquired the intelligent systems group of Progeny Systems through a $30 million cash transaction as part of efforts to drive autonomy and artificial intelligence technology development work and expand robotic systems engineering support for defense and commercial clients. AeroVironment said Wednesday it will merge IS...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has promoted senior directors Grant Hagen, Jaime Orlando and Chris Walton to vice president roles within the technical solutions division, effective March 1. Hagen, senior director of business excellence, will serve as VP of business operations at HII Technical Solutions, the company said Wednesday. He led t...
Executive Mosaic announced on Wednesday that Bill Monet, president and CEO of Akima, has received his second consecutive Wash100 Award for driving the company’s revenue through major contract wins, executive appointments and continuing to drive excellence in the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry. “With over 25 yea...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that would direct a 100-day review of supply chains as part of efforts to address the global shortage of semiconductors, CNBC reported Wednesday. The move comes after congressional members and industry leaders warned about the potential implications of the chip shortage. The EO directs heads of...
Robert Campbell, former director of federal sales at Forcepoint, has joined Dedrone as vice president of its North American public sector segment. He will work in the drone detection technology provider’s office in Sterling, Virginia, and oversee government business development, go-to-market and strategic functions in his new position, the com...
A Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) subsidiary has secured a $39.3 million other transaction agreement to help the U.S. Army develop a 3D geospatial dataset for the second phase of a potential $94.7 million prototype project. Vricon aims to produce a virtual model of Earth’s terrain that will be accessible through the service branch’s netw...
