The Army Contracting Command – Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, has awarded a $306M sole-source, follow-on contract to Leidos for continued services in support of the Saturn Arch program. In an announcement, Leidos said it will provide the full spectrum of turnkey ground and flight operations for the Saturn Arch aircraft in contingency environments outside the contiguous […]
Jackie Schmoll has been recently named as the executive director and general manager of space systems at L3Harris Technologies. Since taking on the role in August, Schmoll has been responsible for all of L3Harris’ end-to-end space programs. She is accountable for the business unit’s profit and loss statement, capital, independent research and development, discretionary, strategy […]
Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer Maria Roat, a 2020 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the Federal CIO Council is looking to implement government-wide upgrades on several information technology areas. Speaking at a FedScoop-hosted summit, Roat affirmed that the council has already identified IT areas that can be modernized with […]
CACI International will provide mission expertise in support of the Homeland Security Investigation division under the terms of a potential five-year, $86.5M task order awarded by the Department of Homeland Security. The task requires CACI to assist interagency partners, law enforcement agencies and the Department of Defense in analyzing proprietary, commercially available and open-source data […]
Nand Mulchandani, chief technology officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, believes that AI is the new oil and that whichever government or country gets the best datasets will emerge as the leader in AI. Speaking at a panel discussion at the Politico AI Summit, Mulchandani underscored the importance of establishing global partnerships to gain […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded blanket purchase agreements, each with a maximum value of $100M, to five defense contractors for technical staffing services. According to a report published by Defense News, the JAIC awarded the contracts to Redhorse, Cyber Point International, Elder Research, Barbaricum and Enterprise Resource Performance. Under the terms of the […]
Dewberry announced that it has attained a level 3 maturity appraisal in the services and development models of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration framework. CMMI is a five-level capability improvement framework designed to help organizations streamline process improvement. The level 3 CMMI appraisal, performed by Abridge Technology, classifies the maturity level of Dewberry’s […]
The Air Force has awarded a $239M contract modification to Raytheon Missiles and Defense for production of Lot 6 of the GBU-53/B StormBreaker precision-guided glide bomb. According to a report from DefPost, StormBreaker is capable of flying more than 40 mi to strike mobile targets. Despite having a smaller build compared to previous, larger weapons, […]
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence believes that the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community would benefit from strengthening the authority of chief technology officers. According to a report from the Federal News Network, the commission wants to elevate the CTO role at the DoD and to stand up a new CTO office […]
Robert Kolasky, director of the National Risk Management Center within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has expressed confidence about the agency’s preparations on both the state and local levels as the November election draws near. Speaking at a recent cyber resilience summit, Kolasky said the next three weeks will highlight CISA’s collaboration with state […]
