Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $109.1 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue the development and sustainment of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system against potential ballistic missile attacks. The recent award extends the performance period by 12 more months ending December 2024 and increases the value of th...
Federal contracting industry veteran Katherine White has joined PM Consulting Group as vice president of delivery and programs. She oversees the development of processes and workflows to help improve the customer experience with federal agency clients and collaborates with program management, finance, accounting and business development teams to str...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted a draft solicitation for a potential five-year, $125 million contract vehicle to acquire cybersecurity and privacy support services. NIST is seeking industry input on five separate mock task orders for standards support, software development, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Educatio...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved fusion ignition, a milestone that could provide insights into the development of clean fusion energy and lead to advancements in national defense. A controlled fusion experiment performed at the National Ignition Facility on Dec. 5 applied ...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
Michael Buscher, a defense and intelligence industry veteran, has been appointed executive director of enterprise operations at counter-unmanned aerial systems developer Fortem Technologies. He will be based out of the company’s new office in Washington, D.C., and will coordinate Fortem’s business development strategies and engagem...
Rob VanBrunt, a more than three-decade Spirent Communications veteran and current executive vice president of the company’s Office of Business Excellence, has been designated as president and CEO of Spirent Federal Systems. Once onboarding is finalized, the executive will assume his new role at the federal business arm of Spirent and leverage his ...
Sandia National Laboratories has awarded Intel‘s federal arm a contract to research and develop novel advanced memory technologies to help the U.S. maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile. Intel Federal will work with Sandia as well as the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories on the development of memory systems capable of ac...
Joel Krooswyk, federal chief technology officer at GitLab (Nasdaq: GTLB), said “open source developers take pride in their code” and their commitment to security reflects through their collaborative efforts to quickly address vulnerabilities. “Neither corporate nor individual contributors want their names on code that has vulnerabilities. Ther...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) a five-year, $349.5 million contract to engineer the branch’s afloat and ashore tactical networks. SAIC will carry out in-service engineering work to help the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific sustain the operational effectiveness and peak capacity of TACNET...
