Christopher O’Donnell, acting assistant secretary for acquisition at the Department of Defense, will keynote a Nov. 3 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to provide insight into the Pentagon’s current priorities to advance capabilities for the U.S. military. O’Donnell ...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has received a $591.6 million modification under the U.S. Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle acquisition contract to produce additional military trucks and trailers. This award covers the delivery of 1,669 JLTV tucks, 868 trailers and associated kits and components to domestic and foreign militar...
Kevin Randall, formerly a business development director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined World Wide Technology to serve as client director for federal systems integrators, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. Randall brings experience leading services in support of a wide range of federal agencies and military organizati...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through th...
Joseph Early, former chief digital and data officer at the Department Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office, has joined Cornerstone Defense as deputy chief technology officer. The former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander will work with the company’s leadership and technical teams in efforts to bring differentiated platforms to the government...
Potomac Officers Club hosted its The Cost of AI Forum, the latest event in the Data-Driven 2021 Series, on Tuesday to bring together the elite public and private sector leaders to explore the challenges and opportunities involved with integrating innovative AI solutions and infrastructures as organizations work to keep pace with evolving adversarial...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
The costs associated with artificial intelligence development, training and implementation will be the focal point of discussions for the next event in the Potomac Officers Club’s Data-Driven 2021 Series. Timothy Grayson, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, will kick off the “The ...
The Department of Defense has awarded the U.S. business arm of British technology company Chemring a potential $99 million sole-source contract to produce technology that would detect biological warfare agents in maritime environments. Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems will deliver the Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection system to the DOD u...
Carahsoft Technology will provide public sector customers access to Puppet’s infrastructure automation platform and related tools through its existing contracts with federal, state and local governments and reseller partners. Puppet Enterprise is designed to help federal agencies speed up the deployment of new applications while maintaining infras...
