Cloud modernization, zero trust cybersecurity and 5G connectivity are at the top of the priority list for the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer in 2024. DOD Principal Deputy CIO and 2024 Wash100 Award winner Leslie Beavers laid out several of the office’s key focus areas at a recent Arlington, Virginia conference, ...
Crimson Phoenix, a portfolio company of technology private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired TekMasters and Seaford Consulting as part of a push to expand its service offerings and footprint within the Intelligence Community. Washington, D.C.-based Crimson Phoenix provides mission-critical capabilities and services in the field o...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) welcomed Jason Williamson, a Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) veteran, as senior vice president of growth for digital modernization and experience, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Saturday. His new responsibilities center on developing strategies and leading proposal and business development teams to shape the company’s gr...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential four-year, $123.2 million contract to sustain an electronic warfare tool designed to counter radio-controlled improvised explosive devices for the U.S. Navy, Air Force and government of Australia. The contract covers engineering and sustainment support, other direct costs and provisioned item orde...
Michelle Styczynski-Hamblin, a two-decade veteran of RTX (NYSE: RTX) and its former iterations, has been named vice president of APS operations and supply chain at the company’s Raytheon business arm, according to a LinkedIn post published Friday. She most recently served as Raytheon’s VP of agile radar solutions responsible for overseei...
In order to catch up with competitors like the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence collection efforts, the U.S. intelligence community is looking to bring in new leadership and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Bloomberg writes that veteran analyst and cyber expert Jason Barrett has been recruited by the Office of the ...
Arvind Srinivasan, a technology industry veteran, has joined Maxar Technologies’ intelligence business as chief technology officer. In this capacity, he will oversee Maxar Intelligence’s technology strategy and help advance the development of digital and geospatial intelligence platforms, the company said Thursday. Dan Smoot, CEO of Maxar Intell...
In our everyday lives, we have seemingly unlimited computing capabilities at our very fingertips. But at the tactical edge — often in remote environments with limited or no connectivity — that’s not usually the case. The question defense leaders are grappling with in today’s data-driven world is: How do we get mission critical data, services...
The Department of Commerce has formed a consortium comprising more than 200 artificial intelligence developers and researchers from government, industry and academia to help create standards for the development and use of trustworthy AI technologies. The U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium includes companies such as Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Amazon (Na...
Technological innovation is the top priority for most leaders in the defense landscape, but technology is just one of many components that need to come together to enable our tech superiority. So what are the advancements we need to make in the next five to ten years to actually achieve overmatch and thwart global competitors?...
