Top U.S. Army officials have declared that they see a collaborative and “reciprocal relationship” with industry as key to getting new technologies into the hands of warfighters at a faster rate. Among the Department of Defense component’s tech focus areas are artificial intelligence, counter-drone systems and long-range precision fires. Young ...
Bryant Thrift was elevated to the role of chief financial officer at Core4ce, a data-minded national security contractor where he previously worked as chief accounting officer. His new responsibilities as CFO include overseeing Core4ce’s finance and contracts, information technology, human resources, security, facilities and compliance and ris...
The U.S. Army plans to award five indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $467.7 million combined to provide research and development, engineering design, production and related support services for the Capabilities Development Command Armament Center at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The procurement effort is a total small busines...
Canada-based flight training systems provider CAE (NYSE: CAE) has named Nick Leontidis, a 36-year company veteran, as chief operating officer as part of senior leadership changes meant to enhance execution and synergies between the company’s defense and security and civil aviation business segments. The company said Tuesday Leontidis will over...
Scale AI, a San Francisco-based provider of data labeling services for artificial intelligence development and training, has raised $1 billion in a Series F funding round led by venture capital firm Accel. With a valuation of $13.8 billion, Scale AI aims to expand its capabilities and offerings by building on its existing AI model evaluation...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of the U.S. arm of QinetiQ, was handed her 2024 Wash100 Award by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the award, in a recent in-person meeting. This is Purvis’ fourth consecutive year being recognized in the highest tier of the government contracting industry, a rarified group that EM takes pri...
Darron Makrokanis, formerly chief revenue officer at Xage Security, has assumed the same position at Summit 7, a provider of managed security services to defense contractors, according to his LinkedIn post. He will manage the company’s overall go-to-market functions, including marketing, sales, business development, partnerships and product ma...
Joe Levy was named CEO of Sophos, where he has been working for nearly a decade– most recently as acting chief executive of the cybersecurity software company. Sophos said Monday Levy has almost three decades of experience in innovating and leading cybersecurity product development, services and companies, and nine years of his career were spe...
Robert Nichols, a partner at law firm Nichols Liu, has joined CRDF Global as general counsel. He brings to the role his years of experience, relationships and expertise in the international government services sector and not-for-profit organizations supporting public missions, CRDF Global said Monday. CRDF Global CEO Mike Dignam said Nichols has pla...
Valkyrie Enterprises has acquired Ship to Shore in a transaction that expands its corrosion-inhibiting products and remediation support services for the Department of Defense and other national security customers and industrial sectors. Virginia-based Valkyrie said Wednesday the corrosion-inhibiting products and related capabilities of S2S will be p...
