Kevin Randolph, an associate at Blue Delta Capital Partners, has taken on the role of principal at the Tysons, Virginia-based growth-stage venture capital firm focused on the U.S. federal government market. He announced his promotion in a LinkedIn post published in late February. Randolph has been with Blue Delta since 2019. As an associate, he...
Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins said the agency is working more closely than ever with partners like the U.S. Space Force and the Space Development Agency to respond to evolving missile threats and bolster our space resilience. “We see an ever increasing relationship of reliance on space, both us counting on space, as...
Brian Wood, a more than 20-year DCS veteran, has been named vice president and division manager of the robotic systems division at the Alexandria, Virginia-based professional services provider. Wood will be responsible for overseeing the development of robotic systems, command and control and autonomous architecture and safety programs for the Groun...
Executive Mosaic has elected Young Bang, U.S. Army principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, as one of its first-time winners of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The recognition underscores how his endorsement of artificial intelligence, automation and digital engineering supported the integration of cutting-edge tec...
Robert Hill, founder and CEO of Cyturus, highlighted the importance of complying with regulatory requirements like the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in order to ensure the security of every link in the supply chain and protect tiny subsystems in U.S. defense platforms from cyberthreat actors. In the...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
The Space Development Agency is single-mindedly focused on delivering space-based capabilities to the warfighter. It accomplishes this goal through a dual capability approach. The first capability is line of sight targeting, which is concerned with detecting, tracking and calculating a firing solution for targets like mobile missile launchers or shi...
Space is a rapidly evolving domain, and the federal government is looking to industry for modern technologies that could revolutionize related activities across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. To cultivate these important partnerships, it is important to send out “the right market signal,” Devin Brande, director of the C...
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to release a request for proposals for a recompete contract covering human resources information technology services for Customs and Border Protection. The recompete contract with an estimated value of over $100 million will cover technology architecture, development, implementation, governance, compli...
The U.S. Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations. According to Deputy Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software Jennifer Swanson, who sp...
