The Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative is underway within federal agencies and military branches, following the release of the DOD’s JADC2 implementation plan in March 2022. One central component of JADC2 is modernizing the way mission partners and coalitions share information, especially as toda...
Chris Pehrson, formerly an executive at General Atomics, has been appointed chief growth officer of defense technology company Parry Labs. He will be responsible for driving growth initiatives through business capture, program growth and strategic planning efforts in his new position, Parry Labs said Monday. Parry Labs CEO John Parkes said Pehrson�...
The U.S. Army has awarded 26 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $869 million contract to provide research, development and engineering support services to the service branch. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive fee contract also covers test and evaluation, support for biological and chemical demilitarization operations and acquisition...
William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has formed an innovation accelerator to pursue the development of new systems intended to help domestic and international defense clients address near-peer threats. The Agile Development Group is composed of 2,500 engineers, technicians, operations professionals and program managers that will focus on developing sen...
The U.S. Air Force is set to kick off a full and open competition for the second iteration of a contract vehicle aimed at updating test systems for munitions, electronic combat platforms, and command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. A presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov says the Air Forc...
Patrick Shanahan, former acting secretary of the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of directors at defense and security platforms manufacturer CAE. Shanahan has gained three decades of sector experience and expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cybersecurity modernization, th...
GovCIO and Torch.AI have teamed up to provide the Department of Defense with an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help DOD process and glean insights from unstructured data. Torch.AI will provide its AI-based software platform Nexus and work with GovCIO to help the department identify data features and extract intelligence f...
Innovative Defense Technologies has won a potential three-year, $98.6 million contract to provide software for distributed maritime operations to the U.S. Navy. IDT will use its prototype environment designed to accommodate software development and simultaneous monitoring of change-driven effects in the software’s physical and cyber aspects, t...
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) business unit has received a $75 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force Test Center further develop two threat environment simulation systems. Amherst Systems will support the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator and the Next Generation Electronic Environment Generator programs through March 2027, the Depa...
