On Wednesday, Feb. 13th, Govcon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the Hilton in McLean, Va., for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Summit. The event featured two separate panels and three keynote speakers with Dana Deasy, the chief information officer for the Department of Defense and 2019 Wash100 winner...
Robert Rosenberg, chief financial officer of NTELX, has assumed the additional role of managing director for public sector solutions at the Tysons Corner, Va.-based decision management and analytics company. Rosenberg brings 25 years of organizational development and financial experience to his dual role, NTELX said Wednesday. His industry...
Former SpaceX senior leaders Josh Brost, David Giger and Tim Buzza have joined the executive team of satellite launch services provider Relativity. Relativity said Thursday it named Brost as vice president of government business development; David Giger as VP of launch vehicle development for the company’s Terran 1 rocket; ...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Anthony Robbins, vice president of public sector at NVIDIA, with his second 2019 Wash100 Award on Wednesday. The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as selected by the Executive Mosaic organization in c...
NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to build spacecraft and chosen the California Institute of Technology to develop payload for a two-year, $242M mission to explore how the universe evolved and the presence of ingredients for life in planetary systems across galaxies. The space agency said Thursday it aims to launch the Spectro-Photometer for the...
SCO™s mission is to identify, analyze and prototype disruptive capabilities to create near-term operational effects in support of the Combatant Command’s most pressing challenges. As the Director of SCO, Chris Shank™s mission is developing new and innovative ways to shape and counter emerging threats across all domains, bringing unex...
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a new program that will direct federal resources toward the development of artificial intelligence in order to build up economic and national security and improve the quality of life of citizens. The American AI Initiative has five key principles and one of those is...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $278M task order to help the U.S. Army field weapon systems, equipment, computers and communication systems. The task order has a one-year base period, followed by four one-year options, and is the first award the company won through the $37.4B Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services procure...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential five-year, $88.4M contract to update the sensors of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fighter jets and EA-18G electronic attack planes. The company will incorporate tactical features into the aircraft sensor system and investigate hardware and software anomalies under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-...
Reginald Brothers, an executive vice president and chief technology officer of Peraton, said during a Government Matters interview aired Thursday that the pace of technology suggests that the Department of Defense needs more research-and-development funding in order to remain competitive. œThe challenge now is how fast technology is changi...
