The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is eyeing a cloud migration that could be transformative for the agency’s National Weather Service and open up new possibilities for the future of forecasting, according to a top NWS official. Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for NOAA and acting director for NWS, said her organizatio...
PM Consulting Group, a Towson, Maryland-based provider of professional support services to federal agencies in health care and international development areas, has received a strategic investment from Enlightenment Capital to help advance its growth strategy. “This partnership will allow us to better serve our current customers and reach new ones,...
U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at an April 20 forum hosted by GovCon Wire Events to share his outlook for service intelligence. Trussler has served as deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and the 68th director of naval intelligence since June 2020. He previously served...
Four small businesses have won two-year, basic ordering agreements worth $100 million combined to provide a range of contingent support services to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The minority-owned companies will assign personnel to assist ORNL across information technology, engineering, project management, busines...
Michele Miller, senior director for tactical systems engineering at Ball Aerospace, has been promoted to serve as vice president of the company’s security and mission assurance unit. She succeeds Jeff Osterkamp, who retired from the company, Ball said Monday. Miller served as director of the missile defense systems group at Northrop Grumman (N...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has appointed former U.S. military officers Joseph Kernan, John Mulholland and Michael Dickey to the company’s newly formed advisory group. They will advise the BlackSky leadership on business growth, technology investment and partnership matters, the geospatial services provider said Monday. Kernan, a retired Navy vice a...
Jason Weaver, chief solutions officer at SkyePoint Decisions for the last two years, has transitioned to a new role as chief technology officer of the Dulles, Virginia-based cybersecurity risk management services provider. He will be responsible for technical direction and the development of approaches to help clients address emerging cyber threats,...
Smart manufacturing has become a high priority focus area for the U.S. Intelligence Community on the cusp of what is being coined as an industrial intelligence revolution. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence listed “materials and manufacturing” as a tier 1 tech domain in its S&T Investment Landscape, which outlines the I...
Two Six Technologies has purchased River Loop Security, which specializes in technical services meant to help customers protect internet of things and embedded devices. The two companies previously collaborated on programs in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and aim to continue joint technology development efforts, Two Six sa...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an annual report outlining NOAA’s 2021 accomplishments in research and development and one of those is the Future Seas project. The Future Seas project explored how climate change could impact West Coast fisheries using models and how fishing communities prepare for the effects of cl...
