Greg Young, chief operating officer of LinQuest since November 2019, has taken the helm as the company’s president and CEO. He succeeds Timothy Dills, who has retired after nearly four years in the dual role, the space systems development and integration services provider said Wednesday. “I am thrilled to carry on LinQuest’s legacy of cust...
Vishal Desai, most recently president of the national workflow automation business unit at SilverEdge Government Solutions, has assumed the role of chief technology officer at the Columbia, Maryland-based technology services provider. In this capacity, he will oversee efforts to align the company’s engineering, product development and technology i...
The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
Photo by Postmodern Studio from Shutterstock.com Since 1917, Oshkosh Corporation has become a dominant player in the American industrial sector, specializing in producing customized machinery and vehicles. Oshkosh’s defense division has won several contracts to manufacture joint light tactical vehicles. Learn more about the founders and top ex...
A task force co-chaired by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation has released its final report on the establishment of a national infrastructure that would expand access to computational resources, educational tools and data for artificial intelligence researchers and students. The National Artif...
CloudShape has received a $144 million contract to continue providing the U.S. Agency for International Development with hybrid cloud services in support of its enterprise data center and disaster recovery systems. The company said Tuesday it will help USAID transition its data centers and applications to a secure multi-cloud environment to enhance ...
5G paved the way for groundbreaking developments and advancements in communications networks over the past few years. Now, with the emergence of 6G and NextG, organizations across the public and private sectors are harnessing the power of spectrum to propel the country into a new era of networking. GovCon Wire spoke with Todd Martin, president ...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has assigned the role of vice president of finance to Vivek Upadhyaya, former chief financial officer, treasurer and chief information officer at Leonardo‘s electronics subsidiary in the U.S. He will oversee Mercury’s corporate finance team and its forecasting, internal management reporting and analysis fun...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has agreed to make a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment in OpenAI, creator of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, to support the latter’s independent AI research and development efforts and enable both companies to commercialize new AI platforms. “We formed our partnership with OpenAI around a shared ambition...
The commercialization of space has skyrocketed in recent years; the ubiquity of launch, the proliferation of commercial satellites in space and the rise of military activity in the domain has simultaneously accelerated space innovation and increased competition across the globe. For the U.S. government, industry’s growing footprint in space is unl...
