Alka Patel, former chief of responsible artificial intelligence at the Department of Defense’s Joint AI Center, has joined Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) to serve as vice president of government and external affairs. The new VP wrote in a LinkedIn post that she will support Comcast as the company focuses on community investment and digital equity to...
Leo Brooks Jr., a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and former Boeing (NYSE: BA) vice president, has joined Uptake as adviser responsible for providing the industrial artificial intelligence software company with strategic leadership guidance and national security insight. Uptake CEO Kayne Grau said in a statement published Thursday Brooks helped ...
Viasat has been selected to help the Department of Defense assess weapon system architectures as part of a cybersecurity pilot program that will employ an analytics-based automation process. Under a DOD contract, Viasat will work to identify vulnerabilities in key weapon components through cyber and software-defined radio threat assessments, the com...
Envistacom has secured positions on two of the 10 pools of the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO contract vehicle for manned, robotics, optionally manned and unmanned platforms. The company said Wednesday it secured positions on development/systems integration and research pools of the ASTRO indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity co...
The U.S. Navy has added Deloitte Consulting as an awardee on a potential $246.8 million contract vehicle to support the modernization of the service branch’s logistics and supply chain management systems. Naval Supply Systems Command received 10 offers for the NAVSUP Strategic Transformation program, which includes Naval Sustainment System-Sup...
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division is seeking proposals for product support management/integration services under a potential eight-year, $600 million follow-on multiple award contract. According to a request for proposal posted Monday on SAM.gov, the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will include task orders for program m...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected 11 companies to help the service branch address munition-related public health and environmental risks through a potential $1.14 billion contract. Contractors will compete to provide support services to the Military Munitions Response Program, the Department of Defense said Friday. USACE received 13 bids...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a $269 million contract modification to continue its design, development and lead yard support activities associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast attack submarines. Naval Sea Systems Command will initially obligate $13 million on the sole-source award using fis...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration intend to propose a rule as a potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to mitigate the risk of climate change in federal agency procurements. The agencies are considering introducing the rule in accordance with an executive order released in May that seeks to co...
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking information on small businesses that could help meet the information technology services requirements of the Department of Defense’s office of inspector general. DISA is looking for a defense partner that will work with DOD’s OIG personnel to oversee its portfolio of IT systems and provide tactic...
