The U.S. Army has awarded five companies approximately $299.4 million in contracts to come up with digital concept designs for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program. BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Oshkosh Defense, American Rheinmetall Vehicles and Point Blank Enterprises will participate in the concept design phase to help inform...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
Shield AI has acquired Heron Systems for an undisclosed sum to further expand its artificial intelligence engineering and reinforcement learning capabilities. Heron Systems is a software company founded in 1993 and is known for developing an AI pilot that emerged undefeated against a human Air Force F-16 fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a $90.2 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to perform tests and related activities to support the transition of a guidance electronic unit to production as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. Under the award, Raytheon Missiles...
Parsons‘ (NYSE: PSN) government services business has won a 10-year, $953 million contract to build, operate and maintain a layered base security system for U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa. The company will employ air base air defense equipment at various U.S. military installations throughout the European and African continents, t...
Glen Schuhmacher, president of Sincerus Global Solutions, will succeed Tony Smeraglinolo as CEO while the latter will assume the executive chairman post at the professional services company as part of its strategic growth initiatives. As president and chief executive, Schuhmacher will have operations oversight and drive Sincerus’ continuous de...
John Howanitz, a 39-year Bechtel veteran, has been promoted to president of the company’s nuclear, security and environmental business in a move that takes effect Sept. 1. He will succeed Barbara Rusinko, who has led the NS&E organization over the past five years and is due to retire from the company in October after nearly...
Allison Patrick, who left Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) in 2016 after she served as vice president of federal civilian business development for three years, has returned to the Reston, Virginia-based company as VP of programs for the Department of Homeland Security. Patrick said in a LinkedIn post that she is excited to rejoi...
Fearless, a Baltimore, Maryland-based digital services firm, has won a potential five-year, $120 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services to support modernization efforts across the government, Technical.ly reported Tuesday. The software firm will provide TTS offices and i...
Jim Cushman, a technology industry veteran, has joined mobile enterprise security company Hypori as president of commercial markets and chief product officer. He will oversee the company’s strategic growth initiatives and expansion into health care, fintech and other commercial markets and is expected to use his three decades of product developmen...
