As the rapid development of emerging technologies continues to have transformative impacts on today’s battlespace, U.S. defense agencies have recently shifted their priorities to reflect an exponentially increasing demand for modernization, optimization and cybersecurity. The Department of Defense created a new acquisition framework in January...
Potomac Officers Club hosted its Winning With the Network: Securing Data in Motion to the Tactical Edge, the latest event in POC’s JADC2 Series, to bring together the members of the federal sector and government contracting (GovCon) industry to learn more about how the Department of Defense and its commercial partners are leveraging advanced 5G,...
Jim Blankenhorn, senior vice president of operations at Amentum and a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, has been appointed to serve as head of the company’s technical services business starting Monday. In his new role, Blankenhorn will manage an organization that works with government and commercial clients to operate complex facilities, Am...
A Deltek analysis shows that 79 percent of the total value of the top 10 federal professional services opportunities in fiscal year 2022 fall under follow-ons to existing contracts and that 90 percent of those opportunities in FY 2022 are expected to be single-award contracts, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for Internationa...
The next virtual event in the Potomac Officers Club’s JADC2 Series will feature leaders from SpaceX, the U.S. Air Force and Army Futures Command to offer insights into the role of commercial technology in military efforts to manage and protect critical mission data. Panelists for the “Winning With the Network, Securing Data in Motion to...
Khalid Syed, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, will lead an Oct. 27 panel discussion about partnerships between the Department of Defense and the domestic industry to create a robust and resilient network for tactical users. Syed oversees Booz Allen’s command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, rec...
Forescout Technologies will continue to help the Department of Defense protect its networks and other critical assets from cyberthreats under a multiyear contract in support of DOD’s Comply-to-Connect program. The company said Thursday it will provide its cybersecurity platform to enable DOD to control and manage access to traditional information ...
John Johnson, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and formerly a vice president at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has joined General Motors‘ (NYSE: GM) defense subsidiary as vice president of business development. In his new capacity, Johnson will aim to identify growth opportunities in the military vehicle, propulsion, power, autonomy ...
Frank Finelli, a managing director at The Carlyle Group and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the public sector advisory board of Santa Clara, California-based enterprise data protection company Veritas Technologies. He and three other newly appointed advisory board members will advise the company on the new cybersecurity executive orde...
Voyager Space has acquired Valley Tech Systems in a strategy to add propulsion and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology offerings to the space exploration company’s portfolio. Denver-based Voyager said Monday it aims to apply products from the acquired company to support space missions at the Department of Defense an...
