Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about the key factors that led to a 27 percent year-over-year growth for KBR in fiscal year 2021 and the initiatives to capitalize on that success....
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Naval Air Systems Command has awarded an additional $261.4 million to fund Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) preparations for lot 17 F-35 aircraft production. The Department of Defense said Thursday the company will obtain long-lead-time materials and support services necessary to manufacture nine carrier-based F-35 jets for the U.S. Navy and 15 c...
The U.S. military is shoring up its cybersecurity and information security defenses as the evolving geopolitical landscape requires service branches to better protect their intellectual property. Specifically, the Army Futures Command is working to minimize the risk of compromising sensitive information and maintain the United States’ technologica...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has formed an innovation accelerator to pursue the development of new systems intended to help domestic and international defense clients address near-peer threats. The Agile Development Group is composed of 2,500 engineers, technicians, operations professionals and program managers that will focus on developing sen...
Patrick Shanahan, former acting secretary of the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of directors at defense and security platforms manufacturer CAE. Shanahan has gained three decades of sector experience and expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cybersecurity modernization, th...
GovCIO and Torch.AI have teamed up to provide the Department of Defense with an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help DOD process and glean insights from unstructured data. Torch.AI will provide its AI-based software platform Nexus and work with GovCIO to help the department identify data features and extract intelligence f...
Innovative Defense Technologies has won a potential three-year, $98.6 million contract to provide software for distributed maritime operations to the U.S. Navy. IDT will use its prototype environment designed to accommodate software development and simultaneous monitoring of change-driven effects in the software’s physical and cyber aspects, t...
Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, has been selected to receive a 2022 Wash100 Award for stewarding the nonprofit organization to position itself for annual revenue growth and its management role at eight of the 17 Department of Energy national laboratories. This marks Von Thaer’s fourth consecutive induction and seventh Wash100 win o...
The space domain plays a critical role in Joint Force operations as cross-service information sharing takes priority within the Department of Defense. Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner said we’re in the most complex strategic security environment he’s seen in three gen...
