Scientific Systems Company Inc. has completed a flight demonstration of its artificial intelligence-enabled autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona as part of the Army’s Project Convergence. During the flight demonstration, SSCI’s Robotic Autonomous Platform for Tactical Operations and Reconnaissance demonstrated the ability to find and localize an enemy target military vehicle […]
Intel has named 40-year tech industry veteran Pat Gelsinger as its new chief executive officer and board member. Gelsinger’s appointment as CEO marks his return to Intel, where he began his career and became the chipmaker’s first chief technology officer, providing key contributions to the creation of the original 80486 processor and the Core and […]
The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $325M contract to perform overall modification and sustainment services on the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. Work for the contract supports the Total System Support Responsibility program for the E-8C Joint STARS fleet managed by the 116th and 461st Air Control Wings of the Air Force […]
Charlie McQuillan serves as the executive vice president of federal health at Octo Consulting Group, a Reston, Virginia-based information technology service management company that specializes in Agile DevSecOps, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. Since assuming the role in January 2020, McQuillan has been responsible for Octo’s entire federal health IT business, including supporting existing customers […]
Charles De Sanno is a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is responsible for the Department of Veterans Affairs health portfolio, including all aspects of service delivery. His duties also include assessing candidate solutions, terminating older methodologies and growing Booz Allen’s technology services, with emphasis on mobility, government shared services, agile, DevOps […]
Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed the initial facility for its Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence in Hampton, Virginia. The completed building, whose construction began in September 2020, will be used for assembling hull structures for Boeing’s Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, which could be used by the Navy for mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Information Office has released a four-year strategy aimed at improving its relationship with intelligence customers. According to DIA CIO Jack Gumtow, a past event speaker for the Potomac Officers Club, the strategy demonstrates the office’s recognition of the need to better understand customer needs, as called out by stakeholders. The […]
Octo has landed a spot on the Army’s RS3 92 Situational Awareness and Augmented Reality Technologies contract. Together with defense tech company QinetiQ, Octo will leverage artificial intelligence capabilities, particularly machine learning and deep learning, to enhance the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program. IVAS, which takes the form of futuristic combat goggles, improves soldiers’ […]
Frank Konieczny, chief technology officer of the Air Force, detailed efforts by one of the service’s task force to push some mission-critical applications to a zero-trust environment during a recent event hosted by the Scoop News Group. According to Konieczny, the said task force is examining how many applications can be migrated to a zero-trust […]
Boeing has secured a $1.7B contract to build 12 additional KC-46A tanker aircraft for the Air Force. The award marks the beginning of the assembly of new tankers under the sixth production lot and brings the total number of KC-46As requested by the Air Force to 79. Dubbed as the Pegasus, the KC-46A is a […]
