Robert Carey, president of Cloudera’s (NYSE: CLDR) government solutions business, has announced the appointment of Allen Sackadorf, former ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) executive, as vice president of defense and intelligence. In a LinkedIn post, Carey said Sackadorf’s experience in software sales and knowledge of the Department of Defense and inte...
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Stefanie Tompkins is set to deliver a morning keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. Tompkins, who took the helm of DARPA as its 23rd director in March 2021, leads the Department of Defense’s research and development organ...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will bring together top space acquisition experts from the government and industry at a Jan. 19 virtual forum to offer insight into the Defense Department’s priorities and modernization efforts in the space domain. David Ray, senior vice president of operations and lead for the space business unit ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a one-year, $492.7 million contract modification to provide logistics support for F-35 aircraft systems that have been delivered to U.S. military and foreign military sales customers. The award to Lockheed’s aeronautics segment covers work to operate and maintain an automatic logistics information syste...
A $770 billion defense policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requires the Department of Defense to come up with a digital health strategy for distributed ledgers and other emerging technology, The Block reported Tuesday. The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DOD secretary to find ways to incorporat...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $304.4 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide voice internet services for U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization received two offers for the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contr...
John Sherman assumed the role of chief information officer at the Defense Department after serving as the acting DOD CIO for the past 11 months. Sherman was sworn into his office Dec. 17 and oversees the Pentagon’s information enterprise functions that include cybersecurity, data systems and communications. He is also responsible for advising ...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $211.2 million contract modification to obtain ancillary mission equipment for lots 15 and 16 of the F-35 aircraft. The award expands the scope of F-35 equipping support for the U.S. Air Force, non-Department of Defense entities and foreign military sales customers, DOD said Wednesd...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $250 million award that increases the potential value of its contract with the U.S. Air Force to incorporate baseline engineering changes into the StormBreaker glide bomb system baseline. The sole-source contract calls for Raytheon Missiles and Defense to design, develop, integrate, test and engineer ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $578.3 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers address production requirements for the Standard Missile-2. The Navy accounts for 6 percent, or approximately $36.7 million, of the procurement funds for SM-2 all up rounds, spare parts, engineering service...
