Three executives at Red Cell Partners, an incubator focused on the national security and health care markets, have created a company to develop artificial intelligence-based software for military logistics use. Red Cell Operating Partner Paul Selva, CEO Grant Verstandig and President Yisroel Brumer established DEFCON AI with an overall goal of helpi...

Mark Esper, former defense secretary and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed a partner and chairman of the national security practice at venture capital firm Red Cell Partners. He will be responsible for overseeing investment and business development activities across defense, space, aerospace, cybersecurity and international affairs se...

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President Donald Trump has named Christopher Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as acting secretary of the Department of Defense....

The Department of Defense has issued a new strategy aimed at aligning DoD’s electromagnetic spectrum activities with the objectives of the National Defense and Security Strategies and goals of national technology and economic policies....

James “Hondo” Geurts, assistant secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN (RD&A)) at the U.S. Navy, will be featured as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 2020 Navy Forum on September 30th. Click here to register for the 2020 Navy Forum!...

Michael Kratsios, U.S. chief technology officer and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting undersecretary of research and engineering at the Department of Defense....

The Department of Defense’s office of the chief management officer has released a five-phased plan to provide guidance to commanders and supervisors as they prepare military personnel, government civilian employees and contractors to return to normal operations while ensuring their safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic....

Leidos Completes $1B Purchase of L3Harris’ Security Detection, Automation Businesses; Roger Krone Quoted Leidos has finalized its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies’ security detection and automation businesses for approximately $1 billion in cash, Leidos said Monday. The company also announced that Jim Moos, president of Leidos’ civil gr...

The U.S. Navy is set to award an initial $1.2B contract for the contruction of its next-generation small multimission frigate in an initiative to accelerate a shipbuilding program that was supposed to commence later this year, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday....