Defense agency and commercial sector leaders came together on Wednesday to examine the Department of Defense’s current research and development strategies, technology innovation efforts and acquisition reform initiatives during the Potomac Officers Club’s highly-anticipated 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit. After the virtual audience heard fr...
The Department of Defense said “integrated deterrence” will be a key component of its National Defense Strategy slated to be released in the coming weeks. In a December 2021 mission brief on the forthcoming NDS, Mara Karlin — assistant secretary for strategies, plans and capabilities and acting deputy undersecretary for polic...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Collins Elbit Vision Systems a $158.2 million modification on a contract for support services to a helmet display system built to help military fighter pilots cue sensors and weapons against aircraft and ground threats. CEVS, a joint venture between Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace b...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has received a potential $47.8 million contract to develop and sustain an enterprise system that will centralize management of the U.S. Navy’s legacy human resources data warehouses. The GDIT business will help the military service build the Enterprise Authoritative Data Environmen...
During the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit Wednesday, some of the top defense sector leaders from government and industry joined to share their insights on the Department of Defense’s most pressing R&D priorities, strategies and technology innovations in today’s ever-evolving defense and comb...
On Wednesday, top executive officials from federal space agencies and industry spoke on optimizing acquisition processes, accelerating technology innovation and creating more interoperable systems in the wake of massive space sector reorganization and reinvigoration efforts during GovCon Wire Events’ Space Acquisition Forum. Following an ...
The Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday hosted its 8th Annual Defense R&D Summit, which fostered collaborative conversations between distinguished public and private sector defense leaders surrounding the Pentagon’s paramount research and development initiatives to close crucial capability gaps within Department of Defense agencies, d...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, has announced the winners of the 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of GovCon to recognize the 100 executives who will impact the sector in the coming year. The 2022 Was...
JihFen Lei, general manager of the surveillance group at Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY), has been appointed executive vice president for the defense business under the company’s Teledyne FLIR subsidiary. She will lead the newly rebranded segment that consolidates the surveillance and unmanned and integrated solutions units of the sensor pro...
The top official in charge of the Department of Defense organization responsible for commercial technology deployments to the U.S. military will deliver a closing keynote address to the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Wednesday, Jan. 19. Michael Brown, a former Symantec CEO, assumed the director po...
