RAND Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $495 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to continue operating a federally funded research and development center. The Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center FFRDC conducts analyses and studies for federal sponsors with a focus on a set of nine functional areas, DHS said Thur...
Jay Moorman, a two-decade technology industry veteran, has been appointed chief technology officer at Maryland-based software and systems development company Chesapeake Technology International. CTI said Wednesday Moorman, who most recently served as senior vice president and operating group lead at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), brings experience...
Axiologic Solutions has acquired Data Intelligence Technologies to expand its services and client base in the national security and intelligence communities. The transaction marks Axiologic’s second acquisition in less than 18 months, the company said Wednesday. Tysons, Virginia-based Data Intelligence Technologies specializes in artificial intell...
The U.S. government is a behemoth, sprawling across a myriad of agencies, departments and organizations. The government contracting (GovCon) community, by comparison, is a relatively small segment of that. The big players within that narrow segment are well-known. The smaller businesses, on the other hand, face intense competition to prove themselve...
Space-based missile tracking has become a top priority for U.S. space agencies as global adversaries’ use of hypersonic and long-range missiles continues to skyrocket, posing a significant threat to national security. Countries like China, North Korea and others have been building and testing an increasing amount of intercontinental ballistic miss...
General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business will supply structural hardware for the propulsor of the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear submarine under a sole-source delivery task order. The task order awarded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division is part of the Propulsor Demonstration Hardware indefinite-delivery/indefin...
The Department of Defense’s research and engineering office has made changes to its organization to help DOD speed up the transition of technologies into capabilities for warfighters. DOD said Tuesday the office redesignated the three directors of defense R&E as deputy chief technology officers. The deputy CTO for science and technology, forme...
Oscar Montes, former CEO of Magellan Federal, has been appointed chief growth officer at health and human services contractor Gainwell Technologies. He will be responsible for developing and implementing Gainwell’s growth strategy and driving business development, sales and marketing efforts in his new position, the company said Monday. Montes spe...
The National Security Agency is shifting more and more of its core business and functions to commercial platforms as part of the agency’s larger modernization effort, officials say. Ryan Agee, technical director for NSA’s capabilities directorate, said the agency is currently running a data fusion and analytics environment called the IC GovCloud...
Raza Latif, president of Nuaxis Innovations, has assumed an additional role as CEO in a series of executive appointments aimed at advancing the company’s growth as a federal information technology services provider. “I know from personal experience that our federal government plays a critical part in changing lives for the better,” Latif s...
