A General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has secured a $967 million contract modification to continue design, development and lead yard support services associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast-attack submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat will conduct contract work in Connecticut, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virgini...
Rimas Guzulaitis, former special projects vice president at RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary Raytheon, has joined V2X (NYSE: VVX) as VP of enterprise integration and transformation, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. He built his career at Raytheon, having joined the company in 1998 as a software engineer. Before Raytheon became RTX, Guzulaitis t...
Joey Lauffer, formerly a director at technology company Google, has been appointed chief growth officer at BTI360, a provider of software capabilities to federal customers. The Herndon, Virginia-based software company said Tuesday Lauffer will be in charge of the teams handling talent acquisition and business development. At Google, Lauffer had help...
Ed Hicks, business development manager for federal and artificial intelligence at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies looking to implement AI-assisted data analytics at the edge should consider adopting federated learning to rapidly generate insights from data while ensuring information security and privacy. Hicks wrote in an ar...
It’s that time of the year: the Potomac Officers Club is ready to reveal initial details about its annual, definitive gathering on all things autonomous technology, the Artificial Intelligence Summit. 2024’s edition has been set for Feb. 28 and registration is now open. The 2024 AI Summit is the fifth consecutive iteration of an e...
Patrick Shanahan, former deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and member of the board of directors of Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR), has been named as the company’s interim president and CEO. He takes over the responsibilities of Thomas Gentile, who resigned as president, CEO and board member on Saturday, the Wichita, Kansas-ba...
QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm has secured a potential $140.2 million contract modification from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide technical, administrative and professional support services for the Department of Defense’s strategic capabilities office. The modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract has a base value o...
The U.S. Agency for International Development has selected six companies for the second phase of a potential $250 million contract to provide missions and operating units with risk assessment, capacity strengthening for local actors and third party monitoring support services. USAID received 11 offers for Phase 2 of the Compliance and Capacity Suppo...
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Draper has received a potential five-year, $2.2 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical support services for the maintenance and sustainment of the Mark 6 guidance subsystem of the submarine-launched Trident II ballistic missile. The sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes su...
Kris Chester was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at WTI, a Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider that caters to the U.S. service branches, defense and civilian agencies and other government organizations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive most recently served as WTI’s enterprise architect...
