NASA has awarded $106M in total contract funds to 129 small businesses to further develop technology platforms that may help sustain human presence on the moon and Mars. The companies submitted 142 innovation proposals to develop, demonstrate and deliver space-based systems for planetary missions under the second phase of NASA’s Small Business...
Martin Amen, former senior director of secure network operations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined Cubic (NYSE: CUB) as vice president of strategy and business development for the Nuvotronics business. He will report to Mike Twyman, president of Cubic Mission Solutions, and help define and implement the growth strategy for Nuvotronics™...
Jim Arthur, a business development professional with nearly 30 years of federal market experience, has joined Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) as capture manager, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday. He previously served in BD leardership roles at Technica, Serco‘s U.S. arm, Octo Consulting Group, FCi Federal and Computer Sciences Corp. Arthur helped deliver ...
James LaCroix, a more than 35-year veteran of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as corporate director in charge of advanced technologies. He will report to John Donnelly, vice president of the advanced technologies office at HII, and oversee its work with NUWC Newport Division a...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has secured a position on a 10-year, $982M contract to help the U.S. Army build and field cyber electronic warfare technology platforms. The company said Wednesday it aims to produce non-kinetic systems to support the military branch™s cyber-electromagnetic activities and apply deep signals intelligence, big data and wire...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a potential five-year, $279.3M contract to design a sensor network with fire-control technology under the U.S. Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability program. CEC will be designed to help the military service coordinate measurement data from sensors during strike force air search missions and facilitate battle fo...
Michael Shields, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as senior vice president of advanced technology for mission adoption. He will oversee platforms development and strategic planning efforts to integrate technologies in sensors, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and other areas with warf...
Nine companies have won potential seven-year contracts to provide technical, management and professional services in support of the U.S. Navy™s cyber space operations. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 18 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, which cover support for interoperability of systems and...
Andrew Borene, a certified information systems security professional and former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive, has been appointed senior director of the federal national security group at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). He will lead a team that offers integrated technology platforms and services meant to help government clients defend against cyber thre...
Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) has received a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence-based computing machine that can offer analytics and machine learning for national security, energy, healthcare and manufacturing applications. DOE said Tuesday it expects the “Frontier” supercomputer to roll ou...
