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...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, David Messina, executive vice president of national security division at Modern Technology Solutions Inc., talked about the company’s almost three decades of organic growth and its initiatives to sustain it and drive values for customers. The Q&A also tackled MTSI’s industry partnerships, th...
The U.S. Air Force has started to seek industry feedback as the service plans to conduct another on-ramp process for a potential 10-year, $46 billion contract vehicle for weapons, digital and model-based systems engineering, Agile processes, open systems architecture and enterprise analytics. The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center’s armam...
Bajinder Paul, a 25-year federal service veteran, has been appointed president and chief innovation officer at Baltimore, Maryland-based information technology services company Arch Systems. He brings to the position over two decades of experience in operational and strategic leadership and information technology encompassing software development, p...
