The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its federal market organization with the appointment of Terry Halvorsen and Mark Johnson as vice president of federal client development and VP of federal technology sales, respectively. Both executives will work to support IBM’s vision to facilitate the adoption of artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud across the f...
Rich Aves, executive vice president of business development for the defense and intelligence sector at Parsons, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He talked about how can artificial intelligence be used to address some of the biggest challenges in defense and intelligence sectors; and Parsons’ recent growt...
Space Systems Command has released a new request for proposals for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 contract to expand the pool of vendors that could provide suborbital launch support for payloads and flight hardware and perform technical and concept analyses to facilitate the launch of space assets in support of research and development programs. Inte...
NASA has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could meet the requirements of the third iteration of the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract. The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston expects SMAEC III to be a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of safety mis...
Centurum will help the U.S. Navy maintain and operate a restoration depot under a potential five-year, $140.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Navy facility hosts activities to calibrate, fabricate, overhaul, repair and restore electro-mechanical and mechanical airborne, ground and shipboard assemblies and subassemblies,...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has reorganized its defense, space and security business by merging its eight divisions into four as part of efforts to streamline collaboration and integration. Boeing Defense, Space and Security will now operate with four divisions focused on vertical lift; mobility, surveillance and bombers; air dominance; and space, intelligenc...
Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined the board of directors of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). The 32-year Big Blue veteran has steered the technology company through market expansion initiatives across the areas of cloud and quantum computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain, Northrop said Wednesday. Krishna has serv...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as...
