Beacon Global Strategies has appointed technology leaders Divyansh Kaushik and Ben Schramm as vice presidents to offer insights to the strategic advisory firm’s global technology policy practice and national security tech practice, respectively. Beacon said Thursday Kaushik brings to the role his experience in national security and artificial inte...
A mechanical engineer by training, Scott Aken has navigated a fascinating route to his current role as president and CEO of network intelligence provider Axellio. He began his career in the commercial sector during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, where he worked for the sole domain name company. Cybercriminals who made attempts on...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet When federal spending increases, government contracting companies will naturally want to capitalize on it. But the main question you’ll need to ask yourself is this: How well positioned are we internally to identify and secure contract opportunities when they arise? Being able to answer t...
BAE Systems has secured a $95 million contract to equip the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multi-mission maritime aircraft with electronic warfare advanced countermeasure pods to protect against missile threats. The pods will provide the maritime patrol plane with early threat detection and countermeasures to detect and counter incoming threats and...
Dave Bassett, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined Thales Defense & Security as a proxy holder and member of the company’s board of directors. Bassett brings to the board over three decades of military experience, including 20 years as a member of the Army Acquisition Corps, where he helped manage key programs such...
In February, the Department of the Air Force announced a massive reoptimization effort to prepare the Air Force and Space Force to navigate the increasingly complex landscape of great power competition. This plan focuses on four main areas – developing people, generating readiness, projecting power and developing capabilities – and the DAF has ...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded VetTech a potential $347.7 million contract for financial management and strategic planning, accounting and cost estimating and analysis support services. The Department of Defense said Tuesday MDA competed the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and received two offers for the procureme...
By Cameron Chehreh, vice president and general manager of public sector at Intel Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our daily lives, with far-reaching potential impacts on government and public services. With AI, mission teams can accelerate data analysis and make faster, more informed decisions from the front lines to city stree...
Andrew Stringer, formerly vice president at Deep Water Point & Associates, has joined Reston, Virginia-headquartered software and systems engineering company Applied Information Sciences as senior VP of strategic growth. He shared his new post Tuesday on LinkedIn and will oversee strategic growth initiatives for the federal sector in his new cap...
Joby Aviation, a developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis, has acquired the autonomy division of Xwing, a provider of autonomous flight systems for aviation and defense applications. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and Joby Aviation said Tuesday the acquired business has expertise in perception technolog...
