President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to launch an initiative to drive the adoption of small modular nuclear reactor technology across national defense and space missions. The EO is aimed at revitalizing the country’s nuclear energy sector and space exploration initiatives while developing alternativ...
Booz Allen Hamilton executives Steve Escaravage, senior vice president, and Graham Gilmer, principal, will discuss how to advance technology at speed as well as how private-public partnerships are critical to maintaining the competitive advantage within the technology race during Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded an additional 36 spots on a potential $950M contract to build and operate systems across the ground, sea, air, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contrac...
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has established the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, which will advance artificial intelligence research and policymaking across government, industry and academia, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office will be integr...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: REGN) will supply an additional 1.25M treatment courses of an antibody cocktail composed of casirivimab and imdevimab to the U.S. government under a potential $2.63B agreement with the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services. DOD said Tuesday the biotechnology company is scheduled to deliver the medici...
The U.S. Navy has issued a new solicitation to expand the current of pool of vendors competing for task orders under the potential 10-year, $50B SeaPort Next Generation contract vehicle for professional services. A notice posted Monday on the beta SAM website says the service has launched a rolling admissions process for the SeaPort NxG...
Chantilly, Virginia-based security engineering services provider System High has purchased a Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) business unit that supports the Missile Defense Agency in cybersecurity and computer network defense efforts. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and System High said Monday its acquisition of the Technical, ...
Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has announced a new organizational structure that will see the company operating in three business segments – mission solutions, energy solutions and urban solutions – starting in the first quarter of the year. Tom D’Agostino, a previous Wash100 awardee, will serve as group president of Fluor’s mission solutions busines...
Global investment firm Francisco Partners has announced the appointment of Manny Rivelo, a more than 30-year executive in security and information technology sectors, as the new CEO of Forcepoint in a string of executive appointments after it completed the acquisition of the cybersecurity platforms developer from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RT...
The U.S. Space Force has been added to the U.S. intelligence community and now serves as the ninth Department of Defense component in the interagency group, DOD announced Friday. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations at USSF and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, announced the military se...
