Chris Fall, vice president for applied science at Mitre, has been appointed to the board of directors at Arlington, Virginia-headquartered nonprofit cybersecurity organization CRDF Global. Mike Dignam, CEO of CRDF Global, said in a statement published Monday that Fall’s experience in science, technology and energy domains “brings enormou...
Fusion Technology has secured a five-year, $159.8 million contract to help the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division adopt Scaled Agile Framework practices and methodologies to support the development of its mission-critical systems. The company said Thursday it will provide a team of Agile practitioners who will define, build a...
In a meeting last week at Enlightenment Capital’s Chevy Case, Maryland headquarters, Jason Rigoli, a partner at the firm, received his first Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO and award founder Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is a yearly coronation of the finest executives shaping the government contracting sector. It commends leaders ...
When Jen Sovada realized she could make more of an impact on the outside of the military looking in, she retired from the U.S. Air Force. Now, her company, the fast-growing startup SandboxAQ, regularly does business with the USAF and Sovada still gets to support the mission, circumnavigating the oft-labyrinthine bureaucracy of the government. Sovada...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Artificial intelligence has presented the U.S. Department of Energy with an opportunity to revolutionize the way it carries out its mission. Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the DOE, has identified the analysis of climate-focused technologies like solar panels as just one potential benefit. Though new AI technologies could be groundbreaking...
Scott Alexander, formerly a vice president at RTX (NYSE: RTX) business Raytheon has been named president of missile solutions at Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary, according to his LinkedIn post. Alexander joined the L3Harris subsidiary after serving as VP of integrated missile defense solutions at Raytheon since Ju...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded basic ordering agreements to 12 companies as part of the third pool of the STRATUS program for cloud software-as-a-service offerings. USDA released a request for quotes in late September and received 41 quotes for STRATUS Cloud SaaS BOA Pool 3, according to an award notice published Friday on...
The U.S. Air Force has started soliciting industry feedback to help inform the acquisition strategy for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract for operation and maintenance support services at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The Eglin Operation and Maintenance Services II Program will support research and development, training missions and test an...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) presented its Q1 2024 financial results, in which total revenue reacched $203.9 million, although slightly lower by 0.7 percent from a year ago. Notably, the voice and data satellite communications provider’s net income increased 101.1 percent year-over-year to $19.65 million, while the subscriber base g...
