Marcus Fowler, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and a former senior official at the CIA, has been appointed CEO of Darktrace’s newly established division that offers artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity tools to U.S. military, intelligence and civilian agencies. His appointment comes three months after Darktrace Federal launched to help federal ...
C4 Planning Solutions, a Georgia-based managed information technology services provider, has won a potential $249 million contract to provide tactical systems support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The TSS-3 contract covers engineering services for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence platforms that U.S. forces have deployed acros...
Shay Assad, a more than four-decade defense business veteran, has joined George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting as a non-resident senior fellow, GMU said in a monthly update. He previously served as director of pricing at the Department of Defense from June 2011 to December 2018 and advised DOD on weapons and automated inf...
Top U.S. Navy officials are pushing for more unmanned vehicles and finding new applications for existing platforms as the service redesigns for a new era of near-peer competition. Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the Navy, said that in today’s threat environment, which is “characterized by rapid mobility, anti-access/aerial denial systems and cyber...
The joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary build four MV-22B tiltrotor aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps under a $302.1 million contract modification awarded by Naval Air Systems Command. The Navy will use its aircraft procurement funds for fiscal 2022 to provide the full amount to Bell Boeing Joint...
Terran Orbital (NYSE: LLAP) began trading common stock and warrants on the New York Stock Exchange Monday as a result of the Boca Raton, Florida-based small satellite builder’s merger with special purpose acquisition company Tailwind Two. The newly public company said Monday its revenue backlog sits at more than $200 million and will work to...
Sensing capabilities are taking top priority for United States military branches as the Department of Defense looks to improve its intelligence strategy. The department’s recently published Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy lists the ability to “sense” as a critical function in command and control capabilities for the Joint Forces...
John Albers, president and CEO of Albers Aerospace, discussed in an Executive Spotlight interview the company’s decision to change The Alberts Group name to align with its mission and his perspective on how the acquisitions of Heritage Aviation and Unmanned Systems Inc. can accelerate its growth initiatives. “We’re taking the two platforms...
Saab has secured a $122 million modification to a contract with the U.S. Marine Corps for the production and delivery of force-on-force training systems. The modification includes a $54 million order booked in 2021 and options that would raise the potential value of the FoFTS-Next contract to $248 million, Saab said Wednesday. USMC chose the...
BAE Systems has closed its $200 million purchase of military training and simulation software developer Bohemia Interactive Simulations. BAE first announced the deal in November 2021 and the defense contractor said Monday BISim will operate under the company’s intelligence and security sector, led by 2022 Wash100 inductee Al Whitmore. The acqu...
