Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Department of Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office have reached a $30 billion agreement for the company to manufacture and deliver up to 398 fighter jets for the U.S. military and international customers. The deal covers the production of 145 lot 15 F-35s and 127 lot 16 jets and includes...
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services is soliciting comments and recommendations as it plans to award an other transaction agreement to an organization to create and oversee a consortium that will help DOD accelerate access to commercial technologies. The WHS acquisition directorate expects the industrial base policy consort...
Joe Kehoe, vice president and defense market leader of Maximus, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He discussed how Maximus has positioned its defense business in line with the Department of Defense’s priorities, the company’s efforts to ensure long-term success for its workforce and the most critical ch...
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed data and storage service, has achieved FedRAMP and Department of Defense certification and is approved for public sector use. The service, offered by a NetApp-Amazon Web Services partnership, now has FedRAMP Moderate and High authorizations in select regions and meets impact levels two, four and five of...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
As a collective entity united under the mission of achieving Joint All Domain Command Control, the U.S. military has intensified its spending on developing various technologies to benefit intelligence-gathering. Artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as various data-sharing and cybersecurity tools have undergone a renewed focus and in...
Carahsoft Technology will offer asset management and cybersecurity products from 10 vendors to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community under a new DOD Enterprise Software Initiative blanket purchase agreement. The BPA covers software products and maintenance support, information technology services and training for IT asset manageme...
The Department of Defense has awarded Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business, Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) positions on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract worth potentially $9 billion over five and a half years. DOD said Wednesday JWCC is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity c...
The Department of Defense has stood up an office with the goal of helping technology developers find the capital they need to bring platforms to the military and national security markets. Defense Secretary and two-time Wash100 Award recipient Lloyd Austin said in a statement released Thursday the Office of Strategic Capital will work to address...
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is seeking vendors to develop software prototypes for the Joint AI Test Infrastructure Capability project. CDAO Test and Evaluation Directorate issued a call to industry notice on Nov. 21 in pursuit of AI technologies capable of object detection and computer vision cl...
