The Department of Defense has selected Brynt Parmeter as the inaugural chief talent management officer. The Pentagon created the CTMO role within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to address challenges related to recruiting and retaining employees with expertise in space, cyber and other technology fields. According to Deputy Secretary […]
Oracle company Cerner Enviza and John Snow Labs are developing artificial intelligence-powered tools for the Food and Drug Administration under a two-year project aimed at exploring the potential of machine learning and natural language processing technology to capture significant information from unstructured data. The AI tools will be used to provide the FDA with critical […]
Roger Krone, a 4×24 member and a 10-time Wash100 awardee, is set to retire on May 3 after nearly nine years of serving as Leidos CEO. Krone, who will also step down as chairman of Leidos’ board of directors, spent 45 years in the defense industry and learned that the ability to adapt to geopolitical […]
BAE Systems will equip a weapons system with two multichip prototypes that Intel and Qorvo developed under the Department of Defense’s State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging program. Intel’s Multi-Chip Package for the digital aspect of the program and Qorvo’s Multi-Chip Module for SHIP’s radio frequency portion were delivered on Thursday to BAE Systems’ facility in Falls […]
The Office of Personnel Management will roll out two new dashboards, one for the public and another for agency use, to address cybersecurity workforce challenges and help close the cybersecurity skills gap. With the public-facing version, job seekers can easily search for vacant cyber roles in various agencies. According to CyberSeek, an interactive resource for […]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy, has appointed Michael Parks as the director of the ORNL Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate’s Computer Science And Mathematics Division. In his new role, he will lead a team of scientists in performing basic and applied research with a focus on advanced computing […]
The U.S. Space Force is set to begin its Victus Nox mission this summer aimed at developing a satellite for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance within eight months and launching it within 24 hours after receiving a deployment order. Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems won a contract in September to build a satellite and ground system […]
Rear Adm. Stephen Donald, deputy commander of the U.S. Navy’s 10th Fleet, has asked the industry to identify ways to provide the service with a virtual cloud that can work online and offline. At the recent Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference, Donald said the cloud should enable offline capabilities, allow seamless reconnection and serve as an […]
Mathew Blum, the associate administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, highlighted the need for federal contracting professionals to undergo digital information technology training to execute procurements of artificial intelligence research, software and services in a responsible manner. Speaking at a Brookings Institute event, he recommended enrolling in the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Training […]
The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a $1.7 billion contract to continue the support the company provides to the Army Aviation Center of Excellence’s Flight School XXI training program for rotary-wing aviators at Fort Rucker, Alabama. GDIT is the prime contractor providing simulation services for the program. The contract builds on GDIT’s […]
