Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Stefanie Tompkins is set to deliver a morning keynote speech at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on Jan. 19. Tompkins, who took the helm of DARPA as its 23rd director in March 2021, leads the Department of Defense’s research and development organ...
Reid Middleton has won a five-year, $100 million contract to perform architecture and engineering work for projects located within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command‘s Northwest area of operations. NAVFAC received six proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Departm...
ST Engineering’s shipbuilding business in Pascagoula, Mississippi, has received a $552.7 million contract modification from the Department of the Navy to design and build a second polar security cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Navy exercised an option on a potential $1.94 billion contract originally awarded to VT Halter Marine in April 20...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $102.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce components and spares of the Apache attack helicopter’s updated sensor system. The military service is procuring the hardware items for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation/Pilot Night Vision Sensor System from the company’s missiles...
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera’s government solutions business, said agencies seeking to advance their capability to deliver on missions should understand the importance of connecting cloud, data management and artificial intelligence strategies. “By linking all three efforts, the government can leap ahead in terms of efficiency and effecti...
Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a previous Wash100 awardee, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. He tackled the company’s second quarter results and growth strategy, and talked about new market opportunities for customers, the Department of Defense’...
A $770 billion defense policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requires the Department of Defense to come up with a digital health strategy for distributed ledgers and other emerging technology, The Block reported Tuesday. The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DOD secretary to find ways to incorporat...
President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a $770 billion defense policy bill for fiscal year 2022, Reuters reported. The FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act reflects a 5 percent increase from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure and includes a 2.7 percent pay raise for service members and more naval ship and...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer of the U.S. Space Force, as the keynote speaker at a Jan. 13 virtual forum to offer the government contracting community an insight into digital modernization efforts at the Department of Defense. Costa was appointed to her current role in ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — LMI will help the Department of Defense’s artificial intelligence-focused arm migrate data on military weapon systems and equipment from the company-built Maintenance and Availability Data Warehouse to the Advana enterprise platform as part of a 1-year, $1.5 million contract award, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec...
