The Department of Defense has asked Congress nearly $2.9B in fiscal 2021 funds to procure hypersonic weapons systems, a 14 percent increase from the $2.5B DoD requested for the current fiscal year, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....
George Khater, formerly executive account leader at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit as director of business development, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday....
The U.S. Air Force and Scaled Agile have formed a public-private partnership to provide recommendations on how to implement the Scale Agile Framework in a DevSecOps context in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Enterprise DevSecOps initiative....
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in Sydney-based control engineering software provider Q-CTRL to help the latter speed up the development of quantum technology platforms in support of national security missions....
Pegasystems has launched a Crisis Small Business Lending reference application to improve financial institutions’ management of emergency loan applications from small businesses seeking COVID-19 financial relief, the company announced on Tuesday....
VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) has received a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps and delivery orders under a foreign military sales contract from Naval Sea Systems Command, amounting to approximately $90M combined....
Naval Sea Systems Command and the program executive office unmanned and small combatants held a virtual industry day to discuss with industry stakeholders the requirements for the design and production of a maritime mine deployment platform. The Hammerhead system is designed to detect and home in on anti-submarine warfare targets and can be fielded ...
Teresa Smetzer, vice president of national security programs at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said the adoption of artificial intelligence could help government agencies leverage large volumes of data, allow them to free up employees to focus more on mission-critical issues and accelerate the delivery of services to citizens....
Mitre has extended its agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to manage a federally funded research and development center focused on systems engineering subject areas....
Gary Mayes, who previously held various leadership positions at U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, has been named senior director of research and development at Huntsville, Ala.-based cybersecurity company Sentar....
