A panel of subject matter experts for an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event will explore the role of data analytics in federal initiatives to manage climate-related challenges in the national security mission. Sharon Burke, former assistant secretary for operational energy at the Department of Defense and current president of Ecospherics, will lea...
Kate Mercer, a vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, will lead an expert panel to highlight the role of U.S. military branches and companies in efforts to make the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control vision a reality. Mercer oversees Booz Allen’s next-generation data services practice for worldwide defense and a...
Joseph Bryan, senior adviser for climate at the Department of Defense, and Ecological Futures Group founder Rod Schoonover will participate in Sept. 14 event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss climate change issues affecting national security initiatives. Bryan is a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center an...
Preston Dunlap, chief architect for the Air Force and Space Force, recently spoke with GovConWire for an exclusive Q&A session regarding the first phase of delivery for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the speed and timing challenges of technology development, the future of network modernization and a lot more. Dunlap will also be f...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Ball Aerospace has won positions on a $200 million multiple-award contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop technologies to avoid a cyber attack on military avionics systems. The two companies will conduct research and development efforts with the goal of identifying and mitigating cyber vulnerabi...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a four-year, $64.9 million contract to engineer intelligence systems and applications for the U.S. Navy. The company will provide engineering and technical services to the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Hopper Information Services Center under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, t...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Trident Engineering & Procurement a potential $194 million contract to supply the Department of the Navy with multifunctional and single-function devices for shipboard use. DLA received two responses for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive bidding proce...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential four-year, $136.5 million contract to consolidate IT help desks for the U.S. Navy. The company will build a knowledge-based platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning and analytics technology to manage the branch&...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $97.7 million contract modification to develop a runtime server for the F-35 pilot training system. The Department of Defense said Monday that the company’s aeronautics segment will provide the hardware to the U.S. Navy, Air Force and non-DOD participants. NAVAIR will obligate...
