Aydin Mohtashamian is the chief operating officer at Parry Labs, a defense technology company based in Alexandria, Virginia, that offers edge computing, communications and command and control capabilities. A Potomac Officers Club member, he recently participated in an interview to discuss his leadership approach and perspective on industry trends. He joined Parry Labs in July […]
Ken Morris is the manager of federal sales for the Department of Defense at BMC Software, an information technology consulting firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. BMC’s public sector segment provides government agencies with modernization services such as cloud migration, security compliance and DevOps automation. Before he assumed his current role, Morris served on the advisory […]
Maxar Technologies has acquired Wovenware, an artificial intelligence and software development company located in Puerto Rico that will support a planned expansion into the gaming and entertainment industries. Daniel Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar, told investors during a third-quarter earnings call that Wovenware’s team of engineers and developers would be brought in for their […]
The Army Software Factory has posted a request for information regarding industry capacity to deliver technical capabilities in education, hybrid cloud and cybersecurity. Specifically, the Army Futures Command unit is looking into how the private sector can enhance internal software development training for soldiers and civilian personnel, prototype diverse hybrid cloud hosting technologies and deploy […]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended its partnership with IDEMIA for biometrics services with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that could run through 2027. The cybersecurity solutions provider is tasked with replacing Livescan fingerprint scanners at USCIS facilities and installing document authentication technology and check-in kiosks. The deal also stipulates operations and maintenance support, IDEMIA said […]
The U.S. Army awarded Cybernet a contract in May to develop and install remote-control capabilities on assault breacher vehicles, which are systems meant to break through minefields and complex obstacles. The service plans to test the autonomous ABV prototypes over a period of up to two years. According to Brig. Gen. Luke Peterson, program executive […]
Amy Hamilton, a senior cybersecurity adviser at the Department of Energy, said at an FCW event on Nov. 2 that she hopes the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will create a central repository for software bills of materials, which are itemized program component lists. She explained that a hub would reduce the legwork for federal […]
An independent inquiry into the causes of the Psyche mission’s launch delay in June has pointed to fundamental staffing and communication issues at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in addition to developmental and testing problems with the project itself. According to a report released Friday, investigators found that JPL faced a lack of qualified personnel […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Unissant a five-year spot under the $340 million Scalable Ways to Implement Flexible Tasks indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Herndon, Virginia-based information technology company secured one of two positions under SWIFT’s visualization domain area, for which it will upgrade ICE’s dashboard and public reporting capabilities. Other technologies […]
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded Oklo a $6.1 million cost-share contract to reuse used nuclear fuel from light water reactors. ARPA-E tasked the company to collaborate with Argonne National Laboratory, Cave Western Reserve University and Deep Isolation, a nuclear waste solutions firm located in Berkeley, California. The work is part […]
