Rich Wissler is the director of business development at Science Applications International Corp. Since joining the company in July 2021, Wissler has been working as the lead business developer for the company’s U.S. Air Force, commands and agency business area, supporting multiple information technology and mission capability sets of USAF and enterprise IT customers and […]
The Air Force Test Center has announced the winners of the third edition of its Data Hackathon event during which participants were provided with complex data problems to solve. Individuals that joined the program used open-source and Air Force-provided tools to tackle the challenges. AFTC hosted the five-day competition, which began on Aug. 8, virtually […]
The U.S. Army has granted AttackIQ a three-year, assess-only authority to operate designation, allowing the company’s threat emulation platform to be used within the military branch for in-depth, risk-based security assessment. AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform offers the Army the capability to strengthen its cybersecurity controls and mitigate cyberattacks to protect mission-critical assets in support of […]
Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics Mission Systems will develop concept designs for the Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade electronic warfare platform. Work will be performed under a $15 million contract awarded by the U.S. Army as part of the TLS-EAB Phase 1 development. Other contract requirements include demonstrating the proposed software architecture following a system […]
Four space exploration mission proposals under NASA’s Explorers Program have been shortlisted and will be put under detailed evaluation. The proposals aim to conduct research on stars and distant and nearby galaxies. NASA will perform the assessment and then choose one explorer mission of opportunity and one astrophysics medium explorer mission by 2024. The selected […]
Rob Howe, a Potomac Officers Club member, serves as the president, CEO and a board member at System High, a company that provides protection, engineering, security, counterintelligence and cyber solutions. In the said roles, he has full executive responsibility for the company’s strategy development and execution, corporate performance and growth objectives. Prior to becoming the […]
Richard Aves is the executive vice president at Parsons. He was appointed to the role in August 2020 after spending eight months as the company’s business development senior vice president for the space and geospatial solutions market. In his former role, Aves was able to capture contract opportunities worth more than $300 million. Prior to […]
Michelle Howell has taken on the role of chief human resources officer at Systems Planning and Analysis. She brings to the company more than two decades of experience forming domestic and international talent strategies for various defense contracting companies. Howell most recently served as executive vice president and chief human resources officer at ASRC Federal. […]
The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s new laboratory has recently achieved full operational capability, providing the U.S. Navy with end-to-end testing capability in like-live environments. The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet Naval Enterprise Networks Baseline Lab is fully owned by the Navy and is contractor-operated, meaning NIWC Pacific engineers can perform their own trials and validation of […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey are collaborating to determine how machine learning and artificial intelligence tools and methods can advance critical mineral assessments. To support the exploration study, DARPA created the AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition, which includes two independent challenges that seek technologies that can automate georeferencing […]
