
Dell EMC has received a $74.4M contract to perform support work on a system designed to help the U.S. Air Force process and analyze instrumentation test data. The company will also train USAF personnel on how to operate and troubleshoot instrumentation, loading, integration, analysis and decommutation system, or ILIAD, the Department of Defense...
Chezian Sivagnanam, the chief enterprise architect of the National Science Foundation, will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Forum on June 13th. At the event, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss “Starting Your AI Journey” and the challenges that come with that proc...
NASA has unveiled a five-part plan to expand commercial research and development opportunities aboard the International Space Station to support low-Earth orbit missions. The agency said Friday it looks to industry partners to drive space exploration and support NASA’s ongoing LEO activities through services such as astronaut training and tech...
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has appointed Judith Marks, president of Otis since 2017 and a three-time Wash100 winner, as CEO of UTC’s elevators manufacturing subsidiary. Marks previously served as CEO of Siemens USA and head of the industrial conglomerate’s Dresser-Rand business. She also held senior leadership positions at Lockheed...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that will establish a platform-agnostic technology provider within aerospace and defense segments. The combined company will operate as Raytheon Technologies and be headquartered in the greater Boston metro area upon the deal’s completion, whic...
Last week, we outlined some of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) challenges to their upcoming IT modernization project; today we’d like to suggest some steps that will help ease CBP’s transition to a secure hybrid cloud services model. While CBP has a requirement for secure cloud adoption—and implementing this strategy will help...