The U.S. Army has selected BAE Systems’ Beowulf platform as the winner of a competition for the Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle program, awarding a $278 million contract to the manufacturer for production units, spare parts and logistics support. Beowulf, an unarmored variant of the BvS10, can transport personnel and various payloads in its two compartments across […]
Science Applications International Corp. has won a $319 million Air Force contract known as Falconer Air Operations Center Weapon System Sustainment, an award that Vinnie DiFronzo, senior vice president of operations for defense, called a “great win.” DiFronzo, a Potomac Officers Club member, said the deal marks SAIC’s first major command and control-related work with the […]
Tim Gillespie serves as president of G-Force, a firm located in Herndon, Virginia, that provides growth strategy and execution for the aerospace and defense sectors. Gillespie previously served as vice president of advanced programs at Jacobs, according to his LinkedIn profile. The executive, a 28-year industry veteran, worked in various leadership roles at Maxar Technologies and wholly-owned […]
Eldar Imanverdi, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, serves as vice president of business development at CRDF Global, a research nonprofit focused on security and education headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Imanverdi’s tenure at CRDF spans 18 years, encompassing a variety of leadership roles. The executive’s key accomplishment in his current role is helping grow the […]
The Department of Defense has awarded one-year, $500,000 agreements for applied hypersonics technology research to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, University of Virginia, University of Alabama in Huntsville and Florida International University. The University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics and the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office, organizations that oversee the award process, aim to give undergraduate and graduate students […]
The Library of Congress has launched the first public module in its new Enterprise Copyright System platform, commencing modernization efforts for Copyright Office systems that handle registration, public records and internal licensing. According to Natalie Buda Smith, acting director of digital strategy at the organization’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, the intended outcome is to create […]
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Altamira Technologies, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Modern Technology Solutions, Radiance Technologies and Xandar for a $4.8 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide research, development and software services to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. The five companies were selected out of ten bidders under a competitive small business set-aside called the […]
Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command, outlined plans to set up more cyber mission force teams to support combatant command missions and National Defense Strategy goals. Speaking at the TechNet Augusta 2022 conference Wednesday, Barrett revealed that the Army is working to organize four new teams in fiscal year 2022, while a […]
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer, capable of performing at 1.1 exaflops or over a quintillion calculations per second. According to Doug Kothe, associate laboratory director of the lab’s Computing and Computational Science Directorate, the machine’s novel architecture enables “unprecedented” machine learning, data insights and automation that could […]
MSM Group has won an enterprise contract for the use of its iSite Contract Management Portal across NASA contracts. The commercial off-the-shelf, cloud-based software-as-a-service solution serves as an interface for task order preparation and response, plan drafting and approval, funding management and full integration of government and contractor workflows. ISite CMP also enables organizations to track […]
