Dr. Raj G. Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, discussed innovative initiatives to strengthen the service branch’s warfighting ability and create a wholly integrated and holistic approach to its IT systems and development during his keynote speech at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday. If you...
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific has awarded Dell Marketing and Insight Public Sector six-month contracts worth $317 million combined under a blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of the Navy obtain software licenses. The two awards are part of the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative and will give DON components ...
Defense industry veterans Kevin Fahey and John Tile have joined the board of directors of Enterprise Ventures Corp., a wholly owned affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Edward Peretin, interim president of EVC, said in a statement published Monday the expertise of Fahey and Tile will complement the existing members of the board as EVC continue...
Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has secured a $3.3 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army for additional 200 million filled drug production doses of its SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine, bringing the total confirmed government order to 500 million doses. The Department of Defense said Monday the biotechnology company will conduct production work at its...
Sabra Horne, former chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s innovation hub, has been named an entrepreneur in residence at Palo Alto, California-based technology incubator BMNT, FedScoop reported Monday. She will help oversee BMNT’s artificial intelligence-driven InsightAI program that works to analyze data from ...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). John Mengucci joined CACI as its chief operating officer and president of U.S. operations in 2012 and served in those roles ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to award eight, 18-month grants worth potentially $5.4 million combined for the development of strategies to drive innovation in the domestic manufacturing sector. NIST said Thursday it will accept proposals for the Manufacturing USA Technology Roadmaps program through Aug. 16, 2021, from inte...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has marked the move of the U.S. Navy’s air combat training system into the production phase with the Milestone C completion. Raytheon said Wednesday Collins Aerospace also secured the first production order for the Navy’s Tactical Combat Training System Increment II, which is expected to reach initial...
Mathias Winter, president of Winter Strategic Solutions and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined the board of directors at San Diego-based airborne systems provider Global Air Logistics and Training. Winter brings more than 35 years of defense sector experience as GALT aims to meet its profitability and growth objectives, the veteran-owned c...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday featuring David Spirk, chief data officer for the Department of Defense (DOD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, as the keynote speaker. Tuesday’s Forum explored the federal government’s modernization data strategy, innovation in the artificial intelligence and machine learning data...
