Dataminr, a New York-based artificial intelligence firm, has won a potential five-year, $258.6M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a commercially available platform that can send alerts to users in real time through mobile, email and web-based applications....
A report by George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting says federal agencies have been using rapid contracting procedures to speed up contract awards in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Agencies are using Federal Supply Schedules as one of the contract flexibilities under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Government-wide co...
Christopher Moran, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) venture capital arm, has said that both defense sector viability and commercial traction are primary factors in venture capitalists’ investment strategy....
The accreditation body for the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has issued a request for proposals for a continuous monitoring platform. The RFP posted Wednesday on LinkedIn says that certified third-party assessment organizations, assessors and companies seeking certification will use the continuous moni...
KPMG has been selected by the Defense Information Systems Agency under an Other Transaction Authority contract to help develop a prototype solution for consolidating user accounts and managing access to agency systems, the company announced on Wednesday....
Kirk Vollmecke, a retired U.S. Army major general with more than 28 years of acquisition and contract management experience, has been named chief operating officer of MicroTech....
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has secured a four-year, $99.1M contract to help the U.S. Air Force update the service branch's Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System....
Ellen Lord, undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said DoD expects to see contract delays of up to three months across Major Defense Acquisition Programs as contractors deal with challenges in the supply chain due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Washington Business Journal reported M...
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking industry ideas to develop test and evaluation software for the Departmet of Defense's artificial intelligence center of excellence....
Twelve companies have been awarded spots on a potential five-year, $497.5M U.S. Navy contract to provide Strike Planning and Execution System hardware and software for domestic and foreign military clients....
