The Senate Appropriations Committee has cleared a bipartisan bill that seeks to provide $497 million in funding to modernize the F135 engine of RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business. Aside from the allocation for the F135 engine core upgrade development, the bill also includes $264 million for engine spares and repair parts and $280...
David Thombs, former chief strategy officer and executive vice president of strategy and business development at SI2 Technologies, has been named deputy chief technology officer at Antenna Research Associates. He announced his new role Sunday on LinkedIn and will concurrently serve as ARA’s CTO and VP of technology strategy. Thombs was instrum...
The Honorable Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during the Potomac Officers Club’s recent 2023 Air Force Summit. The Wash100 Award annually recognizes the top 100 most impactful leaders and innov...
Technology industry veteran Peter O’Donoghue has joined Herndon, Virginia-based federal systems integrator Tyto Athene as chief technology officer. In this capacity, he will oversee the company’s strategy and execution efforts and serve as a change agent and business partner to advance the development of technology platforms in support of custom...
Alexis Bonnell, former emerging technology evangelist at Google‘s public sector business, has been named the inaugural chief information officer of the Air Force Research Laboratory and director of AFRL’s new digital capabilities directorate. She will oversee the development of the lab’s digital capabilities and information technol...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has landed a potential eight-year, $1 billion contract to manage, integrate and maintain IBM Z systems mainframe and related hardware and software for the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS Enterprise Systems – IBM Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award has a one-year base period and seven option years, according ...
Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC and STRCW) has established an artificial intelligence-focused business segment to cater to the demands of the defense market, and selected Denis Garagic, the company’s chief technology officer, to lead the new unit. The Advanced Technologies division will market Sarcos’ AI and machine learning...
Thirteen additional vendors will compete for work under a $950 million U.S. Air Force contract vehicle to build and demonstrate Joint All Domain Command and Control technologies for air, land, space, sea, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum operations. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award encompasses the development and operation of mult...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has begun seeking proposals for the second iteration of its accelerator program to advance the rapid development and commercialization of medical countermeasures. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 aim...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $91 million task order to update hardware and software for the U.S. Navy’s V-22 aircraft logistics information technology system. The task will cover research, development, test and evaluation support to the LOG-IT product line under Naval Air Systems Command, SAIC said Tuesd...
